An unused ticket to basketball star Michael Jordan’s NBA debut game with the Chicago Bulls has sold at auction for $468,000.
Heritage Auctions said the ticket to the Chicago Bulls home game against the Washington Bullets on October 26. 1984 sold for the eye-watering price.
Mike Cole, who formerly owned the ticket, said it was gifted to him by Bullets executive and family friend Jerry Sachs while he was attending Northwestern University in the 1980s. One of the tickets went unused, so it remained intact.
According to Heritage, this was the only remaining unused ticket from the October 1984 game, which marked sporting icon Michel Jordan’s NBA debut.
Cole is not a collector of memorabilia and admits he was stunned to see the amount that the ticket had raised.
He said: “I’ve never held on to these items thinking one day they’re going to be worth a lot of money.
“I hold on to them because they are memories of good experiences and times spent with family and friends, and as we get older, as is in my case, it’s often enjoyable to think of those times from the past.”
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