Eleven years after Joe “Jellybean” Bryant sold at auction a Lakers’ 2000 NBA championship ring gifted to him by his son, Kobe Bryant, the ring was sold again by the same auction house for more than five times as much: $927,200.
The winning bid was $760,000, with a buyer’s premium — the cut taken by the Goldin auction house — accounting for the rest. The identities of the buyer and seller are not disclosed by the auction house, so it isn’t known whether Bryant’s wife, Vanessa Bryant, bought the ring to return it to the family four years after the death of her husband and daughter Gianna in a helicopter crash.