It is crazy how much Michael Jordan's used gear still goes at auctions. Two years ago, the "Flu Game" shoes went for over $104,000 and on Sunday, the jersey from his last regular season game with the Bulls went for a whopping $173,240 ESPN reports:
The jersey that Michael Jordan wore in his final regular-season game with the Chicago Bulls sold for $173,240 early Sunday.
The amount paid is the highest price paid for a Jordan collectible at auction, surpassing Jordan's "flu game" shoes, which was sold last year for just under $105,000.
"No one who has been out of the game fewer than fifteen years has had items sell for these kinds of prices," said Ken Goldin of Goldin Auctions, which sold the jersey and a pair of game-worn shoes from the 1996 NBA Finals for $34,160. "Michael Jordan is the collectible equivalent of Babe Ruth."
Source: Michael Jordan's final Chicago Bulls jersey sells for $173,240 at auction.
This is so bizarre. How does the jersey from his last regular season game, not last game for his career, not last Finals game, not the last game that season, but the last regular season Bulls game in '98 go for more than the Flu Game shoes? How is this possible? Good on the Goldin Auctions folks, but man, I'd show every living soul that went to my home, including the mailman and the cable guy the Flu Game shoes.
I would hang the jersey in the den. It's nice, but come on.
Anyway, Jordan remains an absolute money fountain for anything he's ever touched.
