r/sports • u/ImDoubleB Edmonton Oilers • 12h ago

Basketball Basketball card signed by NBA legends Jordan and Kobe Bryant fetches record £9.56m ($12.9m) at auction

https://www.bbc.com/sport/basketball/articles/c5ypz2r9gjno
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u/OriolesMets Baltimore Ravens 12h ago

I can’t find a job

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u/Square-Hedgehog-6714 12h ago

Sell your basketball cards.

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u/Klin24 12h ago

Especially the logoman Jordan auto 1/1 cards.

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u/luzzy91 Green Bay Packers 9h ago

Lmao. Why doesnt everyone do this...easy.

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u/NaThanos__ 11h ago

I can’t find a house to raid that doesn’t have ring doorbells

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u/CoffeeNAnxiety 12h ago

Sucks I wasn’t born before the Bulls era…

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u/traplooking 11h ago

Ice is hiring....

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u/addiconda 12h ago

Anonymous but most likely a Saudi buyer

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u/WhatLineOfWorkRYouIn 12h ago

Or the Arizona Diamondbacks owner. He’s probably got the most impressive card collection in the world.

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u/PM_ME_STEAM_KEY_PLZ 11h ago

He have any charmanders?

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u/TwoPrecisionDrivers 10h ago

Nah but he’s got all three Blue Eyes White Dragons

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u/littlepino34 10h ago

Call me when he gets the ultimate dragon

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u/dizruptivegaming 9h ago

You mean the 1st Edition Base Set Charizard card?

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u/talktobigfudge 11h ago

If only he invested half as much into homegrown pitching talent, as he does on his trading cards, the Diamondbacks might be worth more than 20th in the MLB, with being in the 5th largest city in the US. 

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u/avscc 9h ago

Phoenix is the 5th largest city in the US??

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u/IShookMeAllNightLong Portland Trail Blazers 8h ago

Land mass, maybe. It's spread the fuck out.

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u/Comfortable-Mess- 8h ago

We're 5th in population too.

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u/boomboomsubban 8h ago

The city is. The metro area is eleventh.

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u/avscc 6h ago

Ah that makes sense, ty

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u/nqstv 10h ago

It’s a 1/1 signed card. It doesn’t matter if it was graded a 1

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u/Sooperballz Buffalo Bills 12h ago

Did someone pull this from a pack originally?

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u/WhatLineOfWorkRYouIn 12h ago

Yes (albeit a pretty expensive pack)

The first sale of this card was $15,000 around 20 years ago.

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u/IANALbutIAMAcat 5h ago

Before Kobe was dead? Damn

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u/Sea_Librarian460 5h ago

I can’t think of an investment that outpaces that. Insane.

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u/mulletstation 1h ago

Really? It's only like 700x

NVDA

Bitcoin

Carvana

Hundreds of stocks have done that since 2008

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u/JohnyyBanana 12h ago

Who is Jordan Bryant?

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u/Starfox-sf 9h ago

A Michael Kobe

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u/Boggie135 11h ago

“Legends”

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u/FlyingRyan87 10h ago

Is that where my card went?

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u/2020R1M 6h ago

Now that would be something cool to have if I had money.

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u/nelly2929 12h ago

Imagine if it was a 10 grade …. 

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u/cti0323 12h ago

This level of card it’s actually usually advised not to get graded for this exact reason.