MJ jersey sale breaks record
A game-worn jersey by Michael Jordan in Game 1 of the 1998 NBA Finals sold for $10.091 million at auction house Sotheby’s.
It makes it the most expensive piece of gameworn sports memorabilia of all time, surpassing soccer legend Diego Maradona’s “Hand of God” jersey from the 1986 World Cup, which sold for $9.28 million in May.
The “Last Dance” jersey marked Jordan’s sixth and final NBA championship before he retired for the second time.
It is only the second Jordan jersey from the NBA Finals to ever appear at auction, according to Sotheby’s. The previous record for any Jordan item was a 1997-98 Upper Deck Game Jersey patch card, with an on-card autograph, which sold for $2.7 million in October 2021.
† Suns vice chairman Jahm Najafi called for team owner Robert Sarver to resign, saying there should be “zero tolerance” for lewd, misogynistic and racist conduct in any workplace.
Correa, Gordon power Twins to sweep
Carlos Correa’s solo home run in the first inning and Nick Gordon’s two-run shot in the second gave the Twins enough to hang on for a 3-2 victory to finish a three-game sweep of the Royals and gain ground in the AL Central race.
The Twins (72-70) pulled within four games of the first-place Guardians in the AL Central. The White Sox (74-70) are in second place, three games out.
† Francisco Lindor hit his 24th home run to set a Mets season record for shortstops, and New York moved a game ahead of idle Atlanta in the NL East with a 7-1 victory against the Pirates.
Also in Mets news, president Sandy Alderson will step down at the conclusion of a search for his successor and will become a special advisor to owner Steve Cohen.
† Yandy Diaz hit a three-run home run and the Rays — starting an unprecedented nine Latin American position players on Roberto Clemente Day — routed the Blue Jays 11-0 to pull within a half-game of Toronto in the wild-card chase.
Federer, 41, retiring after winning 20 Slam titles
Roger Federer is retiring from professional tennis at age 41 after a series of knee operations, closing a career in which he won 20 Grand Slam titles and finished five seasons ranked No. 1. Federer has not competed since Wimbledon in July 2021.
Federer’s 20 Grand Slam titles rank third all time among men’s players behind only contemporaries Rafael Nadal (22) and Novak Djokovic (21).