{"id":814996,"date":"2026-08-18T16:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/814996\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T16:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:06:16","slug":"michael-jordans-1998-nba-finals-game-3-jersey-going-up-for-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/814996\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jordan\u2019s 1998 NBA Finals Game 3 jersey going up for auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to own one of the jerseys Michael Jordan wore during the 1998 NBA \u200bFinals, when he won his sixth and final \u200cchampionship with the Chicago Bulls? Then find a \u200bway to access at least USD 10 \u2060million by Sept. 15.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the estimated floor for the bidding on the Jordan jersey that will \u200cbe conducted by auction house Joopiter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7518247\/2026\/08\/17\/michael-jordan-nba-finals-jersey-auction-last-dance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">per        The Athletic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The piece of memorabilia available \u200cis the white Bulls jersey that \u200cJordan \u2060wore on June 7, 1998, when Chicago \u2060crushed the Utah Jazz, 96-54, in Game 3 at United Center to take a 2-1 lead in the \u200bseries. He produced \u200ca game-high 24 points in 32 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Joopiter assumes the Game 3 jersey will go for at least USD 10 million because Jordan\u2019s Game 1 jersey \u200cowns the record for priciest game-worn \u200bmemorabilia. It went for USD 10.1 million in 2022, when the market for such commodities \u2060was nowhere near its current heights.<\/p>\n<p>READ | <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/basketball\/los-angeles-lakers-nba-ownership-sale-jeannie-buss-bob-iger-joshua-kushner-legal-challenge-latest-news\/article71358801.ece\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jeannie Buss to fight sale of stake in Los Angeles Lakers to Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner \u2014 reports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJordan remains a very, very, very rare relic, certainly in \u200ccomparison to the GOATs of today &#8212; the LeBrons, the Stephen Currys, because it was a different era,\u201d Barry Meisel, the founder of sports memorabilia company MeiGray, told        The Athletic. \u201cThere were no game-worn jersey programs. Teams weren\u2019t putting a \u200cjersey on a player\u2019s back every game or every \u200bcouple of games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jordan won six NBA titles in an eight-year span with \u2060the Bulls, but the 1998 championship run was dubbed \u201cThe \u2060Last Dance\u201d because it was the final time Jordan, Scottie Pippen and others \u200cplayed for the Bulls.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan retired for three years, but returned to the NBA \u200bin 2001 and played two seasons for the Washington Wizards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Aug 18, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Want to own one of the jerseys Michael Jordan wore during the 1998 NBA \u200bFinals, when he won&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,423,935,97607,97605,97608,15155,97606,6,422,427,3972],"class_list":["post-814996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-utah-jazz","tag-basketball","tag-jazz","tag-michael-jordan","tag-michael-jordan-1998-nba-finals-jersey-auction","tag-michael-jordan-jersey-auction","tag-michael-jordan-memorabilia","tag-michael-jordan-news","tag-michael-jordan-the-last-dance","tag-nba","tag-utah","tag-utah-jazz","tag-utahjazz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117117372618975189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}