One-of-a-kind basketball card signed by Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant may internet record-breaking $6M

This card is a slam dunk.

A one-of-a-kind basketball card that includes pictures, autographs and game-worn jersey patches from each Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant is predicted to internet a jaw-dropping $6 million at public sale this month — making it the priciest hoops card ever offered. 

The 2007 Upper Deck twin Logoman — signed in blue ink by the 2 court docket kings — showcases a patch from Bryant’s Los Angeles Lakers jersey and one from Jordan’s iconic 1997 championship run with the Chicago Bulls.

Bryant signed simply 11 twin Logomans earlier than he and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, had been tragically killed in a 2020 helicopter crash — and it’s the one one he ever co-signed with Jordan, whose signature seems on simply eight twin Logomans whole. 

It’s already drawing full-court consideration. 

The collectible is headlining Heritage Auctions’ Summer Platinum Night Sports sale, with bidding already at $2.9 million – and is predicted to soar previous the present document, a Steph Curry-signed Logoman that offered for $5.9 million in July 2021, by the point the hammer drops on Aug. 23.

The curiosity is “astronomical,” mentioned Chris Ivy, Heritage’s director of sports activities auctions. “This is unquestionably the best of [all Logomans] due to its status as the only one bearing this pair of autographs documenting a brotherhood of elite-tier legends.”

Also up for grabs is an enormous 8-by-8-foot slab of exhausting maple taken from the enduring United Center basketball court docket – residence of Jordan’s Nineteen Nineties Bulls dynasty. The court docket tile is scrawled along with his 32-inch-long signature in black Sharpie and consists of the inscription: “Air Jordan, 5x MVP, 6x Finals MVP, 10x Scoring Title, HOF 2009.”

The court docket lower is at present bidding at $155,000, however is predicted to run as much as $500,000.

Baseball royalty can even be featured on the public sale.

A game-worn, signed 1960 New York Yankees jersey belonging to Mickey Mantle is predicted to hit $4 million, whereas a 1939-40 elementary college picture bearing his earliest recognized autograph — scribbled on the again, in pencil, by an 8-year-old Mantle — may fetch $80,000. 

“Mantle’s rise from the humblest of beginnings in an Oklahoma mining town has always been an essential part of his lore, the embodiment of the American dream,” Ivy instructed The Post. “This is a piece that drives that point home.”

Rounding out the heavy hitters is a gold World Championship watch — a Verithin fashion from the Gruen Watch Company — worn by Babe Ruth after the Yankees’ 1923 title, which may clock in at a staggering $3 million. 

And a team-signed 1927 Yankees picture, that includes 45 gamers’ signatures, may snag $200,000. 

“This is the team widely considered to be not just the greatest in Yankees franchise history, but in the full history of baseball itself,” mentioned Ivy.