Kobe Bryant & Michael Jordan dual-Logoman 1/1 autograph sells for $12.9M via Heritage -- new record for any sports card

Update: The card sold for $12,932,000 -- an all-time record for any sports card -- at 1:45 a.m. Sunday morning.

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It's already topped the $7-million mark with time to go before the auction ends tomorrow night, but there's no telling the heights this card might reach.

There's a realistic chance that the Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant 2007-08 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Dual Logoman Autographs card will become the priciest sports card of all time -- not just priciest basketball card ever -- when the dust settles at ends Heritage Auctions on Saturday and it's really only got two rivals.

Right now, with its buyer's premium attached, this card sits at $7,015,000 after 46 bids (click to view) and that already gives it the title of the biggest basketball card of all time. The previous NBA high was for a similar modern card, a 2009-10 Panini National Treasures Steph Curry Logoman auto, that sold privately for $5.9 million to an investment fund July 2021.

And there aren't too many past auctions that top that.

Above this Jordan-Bryant right now? Two iconic cards from the vintage MLB realm -- a top-graded copy of the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card, an SGC 9.5 that sold via Heritage for $12.6 million in 2022, and the famed 1909 T206 Honus Wagner tobacco card (Sweet Caporal back), which had a $7.25-million sale via Goldin for an SGC 2 in 2022.

Obviously, this Jordan-Bryant card is far rarer -- it's the only one that exists -- than the Mantle or the Wagner, which was pulled from production as he didn't like his card paired with cigarettes (or wanted a better payday, depending on what you read). The Mantle has been graded more than 1,600 times via PSA alone -- only three 10s -- while the Wagner, across all its back variations, has been slabbed by PSA 36 times. (Both also exist graded via SGC and other companies.) Other top copies of both cards are locked up in deep, pricey collections and they'll generate big headlines if they ever hit the market.

This modern-day grail is signed by both NBA icons with the Logoman patch off of one of their game-used jerseys embedded into the card, too. The gold patch on the Jordan dates that piece to a jersey from the 1996-97 season when he won his fifth of six championships with the Chicago Bulls. It's from the NBA at 50 campaign, Bryant's rookie season by the way, where all players' patches were in gold vs. the traditional red, white and blue design. Interestingly, Jordan was paired with other players on Exquisite 1/1 Logoman cards in the past -- four with LeBron James, two with Julius Erving and one with Scottie Pippen -- while Bryant had 11.

There's only one pairing Jordan and Bryant, though. This one is The One.

Per Heritage, this card also already will set a new record price for any Jordan card, topping a Logoman that sold for $2.93 million last year and it dwarfs top sales of other current-day giants like Patrick Mahomes, Shohei Ohtani, Mike Trout, Paul Skenes and James who have all had headlines for notable card auctions before and after that notable Curry sale.

"We're proud and privileged here at Heritage for the opportunity to take the title back for the auction world," reads Heritage's auction listing, "providing the manner of competition and high drama that private transactions lack, and which serves as a far more fitting tribute to the iconic subjects this remarkable trading card celebrates."

If (when?) this card tops the 1952 Mantle, then the biggest item ahead of it for the most-expensive sale for anything sports -- as in complete memorabilia pieces -- appears to be the $24.12-million sale of Babe Ruth's "called shot" game-used jersey that sold via Heritage last year. That's as big as it gets.

Could this card get there after it re-writes the card record book? The world finds out this weekend.

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