sport news Kobe Bryant's Lakers jersey from 2007-08 MVP season sells for $5.8million trends now
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A Kobe Bryant jersey worn during the 2007-08 NBA season by the player himself and exclusively sold by Sotheby's has sold for $5.8million, making it the second-most expensive basketball jersey ever sold at auction.
Fifteen years ago, 'Mamba' played in the Los Angeles Lakers Purple & Gold uniform during his sole MVP season and has since been countlessly depicted wearing it in street art, especially murals in Downtown LA.
In California alone, there are over 15 murals depicting Kobe in this jersey, with wings, American flags, and snakes in the background.
Other forms of artwork, including magazines, books, and T-shirts have also showed the jersey, making it world renown.
'This jersey is iconic in a way we seldom see in sports artifacts,' said Brahm Wachter, Sotheby's head of streetwear and
