Remember that weird thing about Kobe Bryant suing his parents for trying to auction off some of his personal items from his professional basketball career?
The whole thing eventually got settled, and the majority of the stuff did in fact end up going up for sale.
The auction has been completed, and the most interesting pieces of the collection were, not surprisingly, the ones that drew the highest bids.
From ESPN.com:A duplicate of [Bryant’s] 2000 Los Angeles Lakers championship ring, gifted to his father Joe, sold for $174,184. A version in a smaller size, made for his mother Pam, went for $108,153.
Other items that commanded top dollar in the sale, conducted by New Jersey-based Goldin Auctions, included Bryant’s 2000 NBA All-Star ring ($55,597), and two of his game-used high school uniforms ($50,150 and $41,694).
The ring presented to his father commanded great interest partly because it was in the exact size of Kobe’s ring (11½).As far as we can tell, the duplicate rings are made with diamonds all the same, and honestly, the price seems a bit low for something with so much meaning in such limited supply -- even if technically, it never belonged to Bryant himself.