1997 Kobe Bryant card purchased by Alt for record $3.15M
A 1997 Kobe Bryant Metal Universe Precious Metal Gems Green card has been purchased by various buying and selling platform Alt for $3.15 million, probably the most ever paid for a single Bryant card.
The hefty price ticket could be attributed to the lore of inexperienced PMGs. Though the serial quantity on the Bryant card’s again reads “009/100,” numbers 11-100 of every participant’s PMGs had been crimson, whereas 1-10 had been inexperienced. Of these 10 Bryant inexperienced PMGs from the primary set, solely three have been graded by Professional Sports Authenticator, sometimes probably the most fascinating grading firm. This Bryant card is a PSA 5, with just one graded increased by PSA.
“I’d argue this is the best Kobe Bryant card out there,” Alt founder and CEO Leore Avidar stated. “They only made 10 of them, it shines, and it’s the first year of basketball PMGs — which there’s a collector base for. I’ve been trying to get one. It’s always been my thing.”
While Bryant’s signature and game-worn NBA brand patch are featured on the most expensive sports card of all timeprobably the most beforehand paid for a solo Bryant card was a $2.4 million in a September 2025 personal sale. Another 1997 Metal Universe inexperienced Bryant PMG bought privately for $2 million in February 2022; that one bears an 8.5 grade from Beckett Grading Services.
In mid-2021, Alt acquired a 51% stake within the one-of-one, on-card autographed Stephen Curry Logoman rookie card from 2009’s Playoff National Treasures, which was reportedly valued at $5.9 million. Avidar instructed ESPN that, in February 2022, Alt purchased the remaining 49%; all-in, he stated it paid $6.684 million. The most ever paid for a basketball card at the moment was $5.2 million for a uncommon LeBron James rookie card; probably the most recognized paid for a Curry card in any other case is $1.08 million in August 2022.
Alt additionally acquired a LeBron James rookie patch autograph card for $1.8 million in July 2020 — then a since-broken record for a James card — a Giannis Antetokounmpo 1-of-1 rookie Logoman for $1.812 million in September 2020, and a Kevin Durant RPA for $780,000 in March 2021. According to Card Ladder, the Antetokounmpo and Durant purchases are nonetheless participant information.
Avidar stated Alt’s aim is to amass Hall of Fame collections, with one caveat.
“We’ve purposely left out Michael Jordan,” he stated. “It’s really the next generation after Jordan that we’re focused on.”
