Earlier this year, AfroTech reported that an unused ticket for Jordan’s debut NBA game against the Washington Bullets in 1984 sold for an impressive $468,000 in February. Owner Mike Cole learned he was sitting on a pot of gold after seeing other Jordan memorabilia sell for groundbreaking numbers, and he, too, wanted a piece of the pie.

“I’m a huge sports fan, and I enjoy keeping tickets as memories of good times I’ve had,” Cole said, according to Yahoo Sports. “Before that night, if you’d have given me $500 for that ticket, I’d probably taken it. I wasn’t waiting for the right time to sell or to figure out if I had the only one. I just didn’t know this market for tickets existed.”

In addition, one of twenty-three stubs from the 1984 debut game also sold for $99,000 in Heritage Auction’s February 2022 Platinum Night auction

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