The auction for Kobe Bryant's personal locker will be live from today (July 23) until Aug. 2 and carries an estimated value of $1-1.5 million dollars.
Naturally, the buyers identity is being withheld as Sotheby's doesn't want to put a target on anyone. But whoever dumped $8 million to own a piece of sports history must have pockets as deep as Jay-Z because dayumn!
While we may never know who dropped off these grails in the donation bid, in the end it turned out to be quite the Christmas gift for an important organization.
While we don't know who ended up having the winning bid for the sneakers (we say DJ Khaled), someone out there done got themselves a helluva pair of grails that might forever remain inside a display case where they belong. (Please don't try to wear these, Mr. Big Shot.)
The Sotheby's firm announced that the jersey worn by LeBron James during Game 7 of the 2013 NBA Finals was auctioned off for over three million dollars last Friday. The jersey was from James' second of back-to-back championships as a member of the Miami Heat. The news comes as the Los Angeles Lakers forward is close to breaking the league's all-time scoring record.
If you happen to have any game-worn kicks donned by Michael Jordan himself in your collection, you're sitting on millions. On Sunday, Oct. 24, a pair of Air Ships rocked by the GOAT in one of his earliest NBA games sold for a cool $1.47M.
Y'all should know that these will probably break apart should you even attempt to try them on as they are more than two decades old.
His Nike Air Yeezy 1 prototypes from 2008 sold for a record-breaking $1.8 million via private sale.
Kanye West is still team adidas, but his first signature sneaker was a Nike sneaker. Auction house Sotheby's is putting up for a sale a Nike Air Yeezy sample that the multi-hyphenate star wore to the 2008 Grammy Awards.
Most if not all of these sneakers demand north of $10,000 so if you multiply that by 50, you're looking at a collection that will fetch at least a half a million dollars.
The 1-of-2 pairs being auctioned off is already at an amazing $25,000 but if y'all got that kind of money to burn check in with Sotheby's come Friday (February 12) and see if you can walk away with a piece of Presidential history.
The Rap King of New York’s royalty has once again been certified. Christopher Wallace’s regal headwear just got sold for half a milli.