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Michael Jordan game-worn rookie Bulls jersey sells for $4.215M

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The only game-worn photo-matched jersey to ever surface from Michael Jordan's 1984-85 rookie season with the Chicago Bulls -- believed to be the first worn by the Hall of Famer in the NBA -- sold at auction for $4.215 million by Sotheby's, it was announced Wednesday.

It is the fifth-most-expensive NBA jersey ever sold at auction.

Only a jersey that Jordan wore during 17 games during the 1996-97 NBA season ($4.7 million), Wilt Chamberlain's 1972 NBA Finals Game 5 championship-clinching Lakers jersey ($4.9 million), Kobe Bryant's 2007-08 MVP game-worn and signed Lakers jersey ($5.