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
- The ring was a gift from Bryant to his father to commemorate his first NBA title
- A sale of the ring almost occurred in 2013 before the Bryant held on to it
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Kobe Bryant’s 2000 NBA Championship ring sold at auction for almost $1 million.
The auction ended with a high bid of $927,000 for the ring used to commemorate Bryant’s first NBA championship with the Los Angeles Lakers.
According to Goldin, who ordered the auction, the sale would have set the record for the most expensive NBA title ring.
The previous record belonged to a 2021 auction, where Bill Russell won the 1957 championship with the Boston Celtics.
The ring was originally a gift from Bryant to his father Joe “Jellybean” Bryant.
A specially made copy of the 2000 NBA title ring that Kobe Bryant gave to his parents is for sale
It is not a performing version of the ring, rather it is a copy of the same ring that the players received
The ring is an extra copy of the title gift that Kobe won and that he specifically wanted to give to his father more than twenty 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 that 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 ten years later a sale took place.
More than 40 bids were placed on Bryant’s ring, which contains 40 diamonds on a 14-carat piece. The ring also features the number 8, which Bryant wore for the first decade of his NBA career, Goldin said.
The name of the new owner has not been disclosed by Goldin.