{"id":481422,"date":"2024-04-02T06:30:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T10:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481422"},"modified":"2024-04-02T06:51:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T10:51:08","slug":"kobe-bryants-first-championship-ring-sold-for-almost-1-million","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/kobe-bryants-first-championship-ring-sold-for-almost-1-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Bryant&#8217;s first championship ring sold for almost $1 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A championship ring from the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/los-angeles-lakers\/\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>&#8216; 2000 NBA title &#8211; gifted by Kobe Bryant to his father, Joe Bryant &#8211; was sold for $927,000 at the Goldin collectibles market over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>In a highly contested auction with 43 bids, the highest amount ever paid for an NBA championship ring was secured. The title from the 1999-2000 season, the first of Kobe Bryant&#8217;s five, is the only instance where he gifted a ring to his father.<\/p>\n<p>Goldin noted that the ring is an identical copy to the one gifted by Kobe: Bryant&#8217;s name is engraved on one side, it has the same size (11\u00bd), weight (59.6 grams), and engravings.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lakers title ring Kobe Bryant gifted to his father sells for $927K, the most ever paid for an NBA championship ring. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2IHEPY2Apv\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2IHEPY2Apv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 My Mixtapez (@mymixtapez) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mymixtapez\/status\/1774875938951508041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Initially sent to Goldin in 2013 by Pam and Joe Bryant, the ring was sold for $173,000. For this weekend&#8217;s sale, the buyer from 2013 sent the ring back, accompanied by a letter of authenticity from the Bryant family.<\/p>\n<p>However, this is not the highest amount ever paid for a championship ring. That record still belongs to Charlie Sheen, who paid $2.09 million for Babe Ruth&#8217;s World Series ring from 1927.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A championship ring from the Los Angeles Lakers&#8216; 2000 NBA title &#8211; gifted by Kobe Bryant to his father, Joe Bryant &#8211; was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":481423,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17394,16970],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17851,17645],"acf":{"announce":"The memorabilia is from the 1999-2000 NBA title with LA Lakers","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\/481422"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481424,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481422\/revisions\/481424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481422"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481422"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}