{"id":518691,"date":"2026-10-12T09:58:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=518691"},"modified":"2026-10-12T09:58:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:58:38","slug":"jordan-match-worn-1998-nba-finals-jersey-sells-for-14-million-dollars","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jordan-match-worn-1998-nba-finals-jersey-sells-for-14-million-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan match-worn 1998 NBA Finals jersey sells for 14 million dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A match-worn, autographed Michael Jordan road jersey from the 1998 NBA Finals has been privately sold for 14 million dollars, making it the highest price ever paid for such an item.<\/p>\n<p>The buyer is Miami real estate investor Ron Firman. The red shirt is the 1 Jordan wore in Game 2 of that matchup on June 5, 1998; he and the Bulls defeated the Jazz in that match to tie the series 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>The superstar and Chicago would go to triumph in 6 matches, the 6<sup>th<\/sup> and final title of his NBA career. That 1997-98 campaign was the subject of the 10-episode &#8220;Last Dance&#8221; documentary series that debuted 6 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The 14 million dollar is the 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-biggest known cost for a match-worn kit, behind 24.12 million dollars paid 2 years ago for the jersey worn by Babe Ruth of the NY Yankees when he hit the &#8220;called shot&#8221; home run vs. the Cubs at Wrigley Field in Game 3 of the 1932 World Series.<\/p>\n<p>This sale marks at least the 3rd time a Jordan kit from the 1998 finals has fetched at least 10 million dollars.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Well, that didn&#8217;t take long.<\/p>\n<p>A new record for a game-worn basketball jersey has been set via private sale through @HuntAuctions .<\/p>\n<p>Jordan wore the jersey in game two of the 1998 NBA Finals. https:\/\/t.co\/S2G0swOwQl<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Will Stern (@Will__Stern) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Will__Stern\/status\/2109637090699010391?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">October 12, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A match-worn, autographed Michael Jordan road jersey from the 1998 NBA Finals has been privately sold for 14 million dollars, making it the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":518692,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16719,27189],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18347,27190],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The shirt that the legendary basketball player wore sells for a record price.","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\/518691"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/518691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518693,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/518691\/revisions\/518693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518691"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=518691"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=518691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}