Kobe Bryant basketball card sells for record sum
The value of basketball cards spiked during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and that was especially true of cards featuring late Los Angeles Lakers great Kobe Bryant, who passed away along with eight others in a helicopter crash in January 2020.
Any type of memorabilia with Bryant's likeness has been fetching huge amounts of money lately. This week, one individual spent $2.3 million on a basketball card of Bryant, making it the highest amount of money a Bryant card has ever sold for.
The previous record was $2 million in 2022.
Among the other pieces of Bryant memorabilia that have gone for incredible sums lately are an autographed pair of the sneakers he wore for his first start with the Lakers. They went for $240,000 just a few weeks ago, while a pair he wore during the game in which he tore his Achilles tendon in 2013 sold for $660,000.
In April, the jersey the "Black Mamba" wore for his NBA regular season debut fetched $7 million. In fact, his old locker at Crypto.com Arena (formerly known as Staples Center) was purchased for almost $3 million nearly a year ago.
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