Kobe Bryant’s 2000 NBA Championship ring sells for almost $1MILLION at auction… as father of late Los Angeles Lakers legend put replica item up for sale
Kobe Bryant’s 2000 NBA Championship ring was sold at an auction for nearly $1million.
The auction closed with a top bid of $927,000 for the ring used to commemorate Bryant’s first NBA Championship with the Los Angeles Lakers.
The sale reportedly set the record for the most expensive NBA title ring, per Goldin, who commissioned the auction.
The previous record belonged to a 2021 auction where Bill Russell’s 1957 championship ring with the Boston Celtics.
The ring was originally a gift from Bryant to his father Joe ‘Jellybean’ Bryant.
A specially made copy of a 2000 NBA title ring Kobe Bryant gave his parents is for sale
It’s not an executive version of the ring, rather it’s a copy of the same ring the players got
The ring is an extra copy of the title gift Kobe won that he specifically ordered to give to his father over 20 years ago.
According to Goldin, this is not an executive version of the championship ring, but the exact ring given to Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal, and other Lakers players.
This is the same ring the Bryant family tried to sell in 2013 before the decision came under fire for trying to give away a part of NBA history. More than a decade later, a sale took place.
More than 40 bids were placed on Bryant’s ring, which features 40 diamonds on a 14-karat piece. The ring also features the No. 8, which Bryant wore for the first decade of his NBA career, per Goldin.
The name of the new owner was not disclosed by Goldin.
