The sports shirt was worn by the late Jordan during the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where he and his Dream Team won gold.
Michael Jordan has become the stuff of legend, a name instantly synonymous with the words “basketball” and “champion.” Many fans of the popular sport dream of owning memorabilia that once belonged to the great player.
Given Jordan’s prestige in the world of basketball, it goes without saying that these items can fetch impressively high prices. The jersey he donned during the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona is a recent example of this.
Goldin—an online collectibles marketplace—auctioned the signed shirt on May 25, alongside signed jerseys of all the other members of Jordan’s iconic basketball team, “The Dream Team.” Jordan’s shirt sold for a whopping $3.3 million.
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Last September 2022, another one of Jordan’s jerseys sold for $10 million. The player wore the garment during the 1998 NBA Finals. It broke records as the most expensive piece of game-worn sports memorabilia in the world.
The Story of a Jersey
Jordan, Larry Bird, and Magic Johnson were some of the powerhouse basketball players that composed The Dream Team. They were the very first NBA-professional group to compete in the Olympics, which was unprecedented before 1992.
As expected, the team was a force to be reckoned with as they conquered the Barcelona Olympics with one landslide victory after another. Jordan wore the recently auctioned $3.3 million jersey during their semifinals game against Lithuania.
Although their final match against Croatia was a close-run competition, the team emerged with a leading score of 117-85, securing the Olympic gold medal for the U.S. The Dream Team’s 1992 games were so memorable that the Olympics commemorated them by posting a full hour-long video compilation during the 2020 Tokyo games.
In a 2019 interview with NBA.com, Chuck Daly—the legendary team’s coach—had this to say: “It was like Elvis and the Beatles put together. Traveling with the Dream Team was like traveling with 12 rock stars. That’s all I can compare it to.”
Banner photo from the Olympics official website.
