{"id":37008,"date":"2025-12-12T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=37008"},"modified":"2025-12-12T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:05:00","slug":"signed-upper-deck-kobe-bryant-card-fetches-1-22m-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=37008","title":{"rendered":"Signed Upper Deck Kobe Bryant card fetches $1.22M at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<p>Dan Hajducky<span class=\"timestamp \">Dec 11, 2025, 01:34 PM ET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Close<\/p>\n<ul>Dan Hajducky is a staff writer for ESPN. He has an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University and played on the men&#8217;s soccer teams at Fordham and Southern Connecticut State universities.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A 2003-04 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Emblems of Endorsements card of Kobe Bryant recently sold for $1.22 million, including buyer&#8217;s premium, with Goldin Auctions.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the third-highest public sale for a solo Bryant card of all time.<\/p>\n<p>The card is autographed in blue ink, numbered 8\/15 and graded near-mint 8 by Beckett Grading Services. It features two multicolored game-used patches cut from a then-No. 8 Bryant jersey.<\/p>\n<p>A 2003-04 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Emblems of Endorsements card of Kobe Bryant recently sold for $1.22 million, including buyer\u2019s premium, with Goldin Auctions.\u00a0Courtesy of Goldin Auctions<\/p>\n<p>In the same Goldin auction, the Bryant card was one of four cards to top $500,000. The others: A 2005 Topps Finest SuperFractor die-cut Tom Brady card, which sold for $704,550; a 1997-98 Skybox Metal Universe Precious Metal Gems Red Michael Jordan card, which sold for $651,334; and a 1998 Pok\u00e9mon Japanese Promo Holo Illustrator Pikachu card, which sold for $610,000.<\/p>\n<p>The all-time record paid for a sports card still belongs to one featuring Bryant. A one-of-one numbered, on-card autographed Bryant\/Jordan Dual Logoman, purchased by Shark Tank&#8217;s Kevin O&#8217;Leary, mega-collector Matt Allen (better known as Shyne150 in the collecting space) and entrepreneur Paul Warshaw for $12.932 million last August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan HajduckyDec 11, 2025, 01:34 PM ET Close Dan Hajducky is a staff writer for ESPN. He has an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University and played on the men&#8217;s soccer teams at Fordham and Southern Connecticut State universities. A 2003-04 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Emblems of Endorsements card of Kobe Bryant recently sold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[20556,14322,7492,1412,20554,20555,10470,3383,13810],"class_list":{"0":"post-37008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-1-22m","9":"tag-auction","10":"tag-bryant","11":"tag-card","12":"tag-deck","13":"tag-fetches","14":"tag-kobe","15":"tag-signed","16":"tag-upper"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}