An old Michael Jordan game-worn jersey from his 1982-83 season at the University of North Carolina sold for $1.38 million in an auction.
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An old Michael Jordan game-worn jersey from his 1982-83 season at the University of North Carolina sold for $1.38 million dollars in an auction. The announcement was made by Heritage Auctions, the people handling the auction, late on Saturday.
“We’re extremely proud to have shattered records for a Jordan game-worn jersey,” Chris Ivy, Heritage’s director of sports auctions, said in a statement.
However, it’s worth noting that there is something else adding to the value of the blue and white No. 23 Tar Heels jersey.
That is the fact that it’s the kit Jordan wore on the cover of the March 1983 Sporting News. This was the story which declared Jordan the NCAA player of the year.
This came in the season that was Jordan’s second at UNC. It was also the season after a freshman Jordan took the Tar Heels to the 1982 national championship.
They triumphed over a Georgetown team that had another future legend in Patrick Ewing.
This very jersey, when first auctioned in 1999, had gone for $63,500. Heritage expected the jersey to fetch in and around the $1 million in its Spring Sports Catalog Auction.
Incidentally, this is a record auction fetch for an old Jordan jersey. The previous high for a Jordan jersey was set in October. A Chicago Bulls uniform worn by Jordan – who won six championships with the side – sold for $480,000.
That jersey and shorts kit was from the 1986-87 NBA season. Incidentally, that wasn’t an NBA winning season for the Bulls.
Michael Jordan was the league’s leading scorer that year. However, the Bulls didn’t make it beyond the first round of the play-offs. They were swept by the Boston Celtics in the first round of the playoffs.
However, Jordan would go on to build one of the most successful NBA dynasties at the Chicago-based franchise.
