Kobe Bryant’s Los Angeles Lakers debut jersey sold for a record $7 million at Sotheby’s, becoming the most valuable Bryant collectible ever. Worn during his 1996 rookie season, the jersey highlights the reverence for Bryant’s legacy and places fourth on the all-time list of most expensive game-worn sports jerseys.

The jersey Kobe Bryant wore in his NBA debut sold for $7 million in auction on Thursday. The sale sets a record for any memorabilia tied to the Los Angeles Lakers legend, per Reuters, who died in a helicopter crash in 2020 along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others.

The first Los Angeles Lakers jersey that Kobe Bryant wore during his NBA career sold for $7 million at a Sotheby's auction on Thursday, per Will Stern of cllct. According to Sotheby's, it set a new world record for any Bryant memorabilia sold at auction.