Two days before his last career game, with no less than 60 points against Utah, Kobe Bryant made his last trip with the Lakers. It was in Oklahoma City, April 11, 2016. A match heavily lost by the Lakers (by 33 points) where the “Black Mamba” had only scored 13 points (4/12 shooting) in 18 minutes.
More than seven years after this meeting, the jersey, shorts and shoes worn by the five-time NBA champion to face the Thunder of Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook were put up for auction by SCP Auctions.
But while the sellers thought they could get $600,000 for the set, the sale brought in “only” $404,331, with $305,806 for the jersey/shorts and $98,525 for the shoes.
A somewhat disappointing result for SCP Auctions, even if the fact that the objects were associated with a very unmemorable encounter was not enough to make collectors' counters explode. As a reminder, at the start of the year, a jersey signed and worn by the former Lakers fullback, who disappeared on January 26, 2020, during the 2007/08 season, the one in which he was elected MVP for the only time in his career, had was sold for almost 6 million dollars.
