December 21, 2025
It is one of the most valuable basketball cards ever sold at auction.
A rare basketball card featuring Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan sold for $3.172 million at a Dec. 19 Heritage Auctions event.
The card is a 2003 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection dual Logoman, numbered 1-of-1 and graded a 6 by Professional Sports Authenticator, ESPN reported. The sale ranks as the seventh-most expensive basketball card auction ever.
The card is from the debut year of Upper Deck’s dual Logoman series and does not contain autographs, distinguishing it from the even more expensive 2007-08 signed Bryant/Jordan dual Logoman card that sold for $12.932 million in August, the most expensive sports card ever sold at auction.
According to a post by Heritage Sport on Threads, the deal is a “huge result as it is the highest-selling unsigned card made after 2003.”
In the same Heritage auction, vintage baseball cards also attracted strong prices. Two 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle cards each topped $850,000, with one graded an 8 by PSA selling for more than $1.55 million and another featuring a high-grade autograph fetching about $945,500, ABC30 reported.
Since Bryant’s 2020 death in a helicopter crash, the NBA legend’s sports memorabilia has commanded a high price. Exalted by some as the greatest basketball player ever, there is no shortage of demand for his mementos.
In April 2024, Bryant’s 2000 Los Angeles Lakers championship ring sold for $917,000 at auction. The ring marked the first championship won by the eventual five-time champion. Bryant gave it to his father, Joe, a former pro basketball player.
Kobe’s parents, Pam and Joe, sold the ring for $173,000 in 2013. Subsequently, the new buyer made over $700,000 at the time of the auction.
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