Kobe Bryant’s Los Angeles Lakers debut jersey sold for a record $7 million at Sotheby’s, becoming the most valuable Bryant collectible ever. Worn during his 1996 rookie season, the jersey highlights the reverence for Bryant’s legacy and places fourth on the all-time list of most expensive game-worn sports jerseys.

The jersey Kobe Bryant wore in his NBA debut sold for $7 million in auction on Thursday. Per auction house Sotheby’s, the sale sets a record for any memorabilia tied to the Los Angeles Lakers legend, who died in a helicopter crash in 2020 along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others.

"The $7 million Bryant jersey is the fourth-most-expensive game-worn sports jersey of all time behind the $24 million Babe Ruth 'called shot' jersey, Michael Jordan's $10.1 million 'Last Dance' jersey and Diego Maradona's $9.3 million 'Hand of God' Argentina jersey from the 1986 FIFA World Cup."