“Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary‘s newest large funding is the record-breaking buy of a Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan sports activities card at public sale over the weekend.
The Canadian enterprise capitalist, whose reported web value is round $400 million, revealed that he was considered one of three consumers to plunk down practically $13 million for the signed collectible that includes each NBA legends on Saturday.
The $12.9 million price ticket ranks as the most costly sports activities card bought at public sale — besting a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle No. 311, which went for $12.6 million in August 2022.
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The cardboard, signed by each Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, bought for $13 million over the weekend. (Courtesy Heritage Auctions)
The public sale home Heritage, which bought each playing cards, confirmed that interest mega-collector Matt Allen and Miami-based entrepreneur Paul Warshaw partnered with O’Leary to snap up the one twin Logoman card to function the 2 skilled basketball stars collectively.
“We bought it together, yes we did,” the well-known investor stated throughout a Monday morning look on CNBC. “I’m very proud to own it.”
O’Leary stated the three males hatched a plan to purchase the merchandise, thought of “the finest modern basketball card in the world,” on a 3 a.m. Zoom name.
“It’s going to be a part of an index that I’m going to continue to grow along with my partners,” he stated. “We look at it no different than our bitcoin holdings, our ethereum holdings, our gold holdings.”
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Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant throughout a NBA recreation in 2002. (Photograph by Simon Bruty/Anychance/Getty Pictures)
Heritage’s director of sports activities auctions Chris Ivy stated the unique proprietor of the Jordan and Kobe card had it for over a decade. The unidentified proprietor was allegedly approached a number of occasions by personal consumers with a “high seven-figure” price ticket for the cardboard earlier than it went to public sale.
The collectible bought coincidentally on what would’ve been Bryant’s forty seventh birthday on Saturday. The Los Angeles Lakers celebrity died in a helicopter crash in 2020.
The cardboard, signed by Jordan and Bryant, is just second to the file sale for a bit of sports activities memorabilia of any type. Final yr, Heritage bought Babe Ruth’s “called shot” jersey from the 1932 World Sequence bought for $24.12 million.
Initially Revealed: August 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM EDT
