Overview
- Brunson’s Game 1 jersey sold for $1,024,000 at Sotheby’s, concluding an online Finals auction that closed Wednesday and marking the highest price in the lot and the largest-ever sale for Knicks memorabilia.
- Sotheby’s packaged roughly 35–36 Finals items for sale, and the auction realized about $2.9 million overall with other high bidders paying six-figure sums for jerseys, court panels and nets.
- Brunson wore the white No. 11 jersey when he scored 30 points in Game 1, finished the series as Finals MVP with a 32.6 points-per-game average, and helped the Knicks win their first title since 1973.
- The sale has rekindled scrutiny of provenance and retention rules after Sotheby’s pulled one item—the game‑winning ball from Game 4—and the NBA said that particular ball will remain with the team as part of franchise history.
- The $1.024 million price sits far below the overall game-worn jersey record of $10.1 million for Michael Jordan’s 1998 jersey, but it underscores growing collector demand that could prompt clearer league and team policies on championship artifacts.