Michael Jordan's 1998 NBA Finals Game 3 Jersey Estimated to Sell for $10M-$15M at Auction

One lucky NBA fan can own a piece of Michael Jordan's famous Last Dance season.

For the right price, of course.

The auction house Joopiter is selling Jordan's game-worn jersey from the Chicago Bulls' victory over the Utah Jazz in Game 3 of the 1998 NBA Finals. Bidding starts on Sept. 15 at 10 a.m. ET, and the presale estimate for the final price is $10 million to $15 million.

While five of the six games in the 1998 NBA Finals were decided by five points or less with Chicago winning the decisive Game 6 by a single point, Game 3 was a decisive blowout.

The Bulls cruised to a 96-54 victory with Jordan posting a game-high 24 points in just 32 minutes of action in a contest that didn't need him unleashing any late-game heroics.

The jersey he wore while doing so features the 1998 NBA Finals patch, which is a series even casual basketball fans are quite familiar with as Jordan's last with the Bulls. He won his sixth and final championship with the winning shot in Game 6, which capped off one of the best stretches in NBA history.

Chicago three-peated twice from 1991-93 and 1996-98 with Jordan retiring in between to pursue a professional baseball career.

"The Last Dance represents really one of the defining chapters in the history of all sports, not just basketball," Jupiter global head of sales Caitlin Donovan said, per Benjamin Burrows of The Athletic. "It's really more than just the conclusion of (Jordan's) career with the Bulls, it really marked the culmination of one of the greatest dynasties that I feel was ever assembled."

As Burrows noted, the current record price for a basketball jersey sold at public auction is $10.1 million. That 2022 auction just so happened to be for Jordan's game-worn jersey from Game 1 of the 1998 NBA Finals.

Only Babe Ruth's game-worn 1932 World Series "called shot" jersey, which sold for $24.1 million in 2024, has gone for a higher price among game-worn memorabilia.

While the presale estimate for this jersey doesn't predict it to threaten that number, it could set the record for a basketball game-worn jersey.