This card is a slam dunk.
A one-of-a-kind basketball card featuring photos, autographs and game-worn jersey patches from both Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant is expected to net a jaw-dropping $6 million at auction this month — making it the priciest hoops card ever sold.
The 2007 Upper Deck dual Logoman — signed in blue ink by the two court 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 just 11 dual Logomans before he and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, were tragically killed in a 2020 helicopter crash — and it’s the only one he ever co-signed with Jordan, whose signature appears on just eight dual Logomans total.
It’s already drawing full-court attention.
The collectible is headlining Heritage Auctions’ Summer Platinum Night Sports sale, with bidding already at $2.9 million – and is expected to soar past the current record, a Steph Curry-signed Logoman that sold for $5.9 million in July 2021, by the time the hammer drops on Aug. 23.
The interest is “astronomical,” said Chris Ivy, Heritage’s director of sports 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 a massive 8-by-8-foot slab of hard maple taken from the iconic United Center basketball court – home of Jordan’s 1990s Bulls dynasty. The court tile is scrawled with his 32-inch-long signature in black Sharpie and includes the inscription: “Air Jordan, 5x MVP, 6x Finals MVP, 10x Scoring Title, HOF 2009.”
The court cut is currently bidding at $155,000, but is expected to run up to $500,000.
Baseball royalty will also be featured at the auction.
A game-worn, signed 1960 New York Yankees jersey belonging to Mickey Mantle is expected to hit $4 million, while a 1939-40 elementary school photo bearing his earliest known autograph — scribbled on the back, in pencil, by an 8-year-old Mantle — could 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 told The Post. “This is a piece that drives that point home.”
Rounding out the heavy hitters is a gold World Championship watch — a Verithin style from the Gruen Watch Company — worn by Babe Ruth after the Yankees’ 1923 title, which could clock in at a staggering $3 million.
And a team-signed 1927 Yankees photo, featuring 45 players’ signatures, could 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,” said Ivy.
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