Overview
- The white No. 23 jersey Jordan wore in Game 3 of the 1998 NBA Finals sold for about $12.26–$12.3 million with the lot closing late Tuesday.
- Joopiter, Pharrell Williams’ digital auction house, listed the piece as the only publicly known white game-winning jersey from the 1998 Finals and relied on MeiGray photomatching to verify provenance.
- Reports say the winning entry was entered as an irrevocable bid that effectively produced a roughly $10 million hammer price plus about $2.26 million in buyer’s fees to reach the final figure.
- Seller Rob Gough, who bought the jersey in 2023, said he sees himself as a steward of sports history and has previously traded other high-value collectibles.
- The sale sets a new NBA/basketball jersey record while leaving the overall sports-jersey high mark with Babe Ruth’s 1932 jersey, and it signals continued strong demand for authenticated Jordan-era items that are rare because teams then did not track or retire single-game uniforms.