Unique Kobe Bryant-Michael Jordan card set to

The document for the quantity paid for a basketball card is about to be damaged by Kobe Bryant on what would have been his forty seventh birthday … with some help from his “big brother,” Michael Jordan.

The 2007-08 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Dual Logoman Autographs card that includes Bryant and Jordan is up for bid online at Heritage Auctions. Bidding closes Saturday at 8 p.m. PDT, with prolonged bidding obtainable at that time.

As of early Friday afternoon, bidding for the one-of-one card had reached $7.015 million, including the 22% purchaser’s premium added to the profitable bid. That already shatters the current document price garnered by a basketball card — the $5.9 million paid for the 2009-10 Panini National Treasures Stephen Curry Logoman Autograph card in a 2021 personal property sale.

With more than a day still remaining for bids, it’s still powerful to inform what the new document would possibly end up being.

“Most likely, it’ll end up somewhere in the $8-million range,” Heritage director of sports activities collectibles Chris Ivy told The Times late Friday morning, although he added that he “wouldn’t be shocked” if it went for $10 million or more.

The most anybody has paid for any sports activities card is $12.6 million for a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card in a 2022 Heritage public sale. The Curry card at the moment sits at No. 4 among all sports activities playing cards.

The Dual Logoman Autographs sequence of playing cards options the pictures and signatures of two iconic gamers, as nicely as NBA brand patches from a game-worn jersey from each participant. Jordan appeared on eight such playing cards and Bryant was on 11, but this is the only one that paired the 2 of them.

“It’s the only one that has Kobe and Jordan on it, and it has both their Logoman logos, and it’s signed by both,” Ivy said, “and so kind of all those factors combined together to make this the top card for modern card collectors. And we’re seeing that in the price that it’s generating right now.”

Cards that includes Jordan and Bryant individually haven’t introduced in practically as a lot money, with Jordan’s top vendor going for $2.93 million in 2024 and Bryant’s going for $2.3 million earlier this month.

Ivy said it’s a coincidence that the public sale is ending on Bryant’s birthday.

The beloved Los Angeles icon and daughter Gianna have been among the 9 people who died in a Jan. 26, 2020, helicopter crash in Calabasas. Jordan was one of the audio system at the daddy and daughter’s public memorial held on Feb. 24, 2020, at Staples Center.

“Maybe it surprised people that Kobe and I were very close friends,” Jordan said. “But we were very close friends. Kobe was my dear friend, he was like a little brother.”

He added: “What Kobe Bryant was to me was the inspiration that someone truly cared about the way that I played the game or the way that he wanted to play the game.

“He wanted to be the best basketball player that he could be. And as I got to know him, I wanted to be the best big brother that I could be. To do that you have to put up with the aggravation, the late-night calls or the dumb questions. I took great pride as I got to know Kobe Bryant that he was just trying to be a better person, a better basketball player.”