This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/22/2010
According to a July 11, 2005 Sports Illustrated article entitled "Rare Jordan," which details the top-three rarest Jordan cards ever produced, you are looking at one of (okay, two of) the rarest MJ basketball cards on the planet. Quoting from the article, "In 1998 a Chicago Chevrolet dealership offered a promotion: Buy a Blazer for $26,000 and receive a limited edition Michael Jordan trading card. On the front of the card was a portrait of His Airness [obviously, there were other poses]; on the back, a coupon for a dinner in an exclusive, glassed-in room at Jordan's steakhouse. No one knows how many cards were given out." While records might exist for how many Blazers the dealership sold that year, it's doubtful they sold more than a few hundred, but regardless of how many actually left the lot, most if not all of the promotional trading cards were redeemed at MJ's restaurant and subsequently trashed by the restaurant hosts, which is why approximately only 10 copies are known to exist today. Offered in this lot are 2 of the mere 9 examples that have ever been graded by any of the major grading companies. Both grade BGS 9 MINT, with none graded higher at BGS and none on record whatsoever at both PSA and SGC. Keep one for your collection and sell the other, cross them to PSA for your Player Registry collection, or, heck, maybe you can still finagle a free dinner out of them! The choice is always yours, friends, but we recommend you don't sleep on these rare Jordans, because we sincerely doubt you'll ever see them again. Good luck!