During his stellar basketball career, Michael Jordan was famous for his gravity-defying dunks and redefining the bounds of what seemed possible. Now a jersey won by the former Chicago Bulls player in the 1998 NBA finals – a period chronicled in the hit Netflix documentary The Last Dance – has also sent jaws dropping by attracting a record price of $10.091m (£8.85m) at auction.
The sum, more than double the initial estimates, set a new auction record for a piece of game-worn sports memorabilia, according to Sotheby’s. The previous highest was the $9.28m (£8.14m) paid for the shirt worn by Diego Maradona during the “Hand of God” game against England at the 1986 World Cup.
