A game-worn jersey belonging to Michael Jordan from his second season at the University of North Carolina sold for a record $1.9 million.
It is the only known shirt photo-matched to the basketball legend's 1982-83 season with the Tar Heels.
It sold for more than three times the previous record for a Jordan jersey.
A Jordan jersey from his third season with the Bulls in 1986-87 last year sold for $660 thousand.
The only known Michael Jordan game-worn North Carolina Tar Heels basketball jersey sold for $1.38 million on Saturday with Heritage Auctions. Via @espn https://t.co/dzE5ZtVi98 #MichaelJordan
— Heritage Auctions (@HeritageAuction) May 8, 2021
Jordan won six NBA championships in the 1990s with the Bulls and established himself as one of the world's most iconic athletes.
Items associated with the basketball Hall of Famer, who now owns the Charlotte Hornets NBA franchise, have fetched huge sums of money.
A pair of game-worn Air Jordan 1s High, replete with an embedded shard of glass from a backboard shattered by a particularly powerful Jordan dunk, sold for $845 thousand last year.
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