Kobe’s Staples Centre locker, now considered a piece of memorabilia, is set to be auctioned by Sotheby’s. TMZ reports, it could fete $1million.
The media outlet reports that the locker was about to be destroyed during renovations at the Staples Centre in 2018, however a maintenance worker saved it, having realized who it belonged to. He kept it in storage for years until an American collector who had the locker nameplate, purchased it to reunite the two pieces.
TMZ says the locker is expected to fetch up to $1.2 million, and some of the final bid will go to charity.
Added to the locker, there are other listings like are Michael Jordan‘s worn shorts from his final game with the Washington Wizards in the 2002-03 season, Diego Maradona‘s game-worn and signed Argentina shirt from the second half of the 1985 World Cup, which is expected to sell for over $800k and Olympic star, Florence Griffith Joyner‘s gold medal from when she set a world record in the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
This isn’t the first piece of Kobe memorabilia to make headlines this year. Back in March, Kobe’s 2000 NBA Finals championship ring went for a reported $927,200 at auction.
The online bidding goes live on July 26th and ends on August 2nd.
