{"id":412000,"date":"2023-02-09T15:31:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T20:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412000"},"modified":"2023-02-09T15:34:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T20:34:47","slug":"signed-kobe-bryant-jersey-sold-for-5-8-mln","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/signed-kobe-bryant-jersey-sold-for-5-8-mln\/","title":{"rendered":"Signed Kobe Bryant jersey sold for $5.8 mln"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A signed jersey, worn by Kobe Bryant during his lone MVP season in 2007-08, has been sold for $5,849,700 with Sotheby&#8217;s, a record for any Bryant item.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another record smashed at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SothebysNewYork?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SothebysNewYork<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Kobe Bryant&#39;s game-worn Los Angeles Lakers Jersey from his only MVP season scored $5.8 million today, becoming the most valuable Bryant item ever sold at auction and second most valuable basketball jersey ever sold. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HTbiwL0q3F\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/HTbiwL0q3F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sotheby&#39;s (@Sothebys) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sothebys\/status\/1623779769857843208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the second most expensive basketball jersey ever sold.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This jersey is iconic in a way we seldom see in sports artifacts,&#8221; said Brahm Wachter, Sotheby&#8217;s head of streetwear and modern collectables in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The image of Kobe wearing this particular jersey during the NBA Playoffs has permeated in popular culture, reprinted on murals, books, newspapers [and] has become a symbol of his fierce determination and passion that has resonated with audiences across the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Murals arose around the world depicting Bryant in this uniform after Bryant&#8217;s tragic death in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Per Sotheby&#8217;s, the jersey&#8217;s lot includes a collection of photographs by photographer Greg Cohen of said murals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A signed jersey, worn by Kobe Bryant during his lone MVP season in 2007-08, has been sold for $5,849,700 with Sotheby&#8217;s, a record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412001,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17394],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"It's the second most expensive basketball jersey ever sold","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412000"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412000"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}