recently i got a lead on a huge collection of kobe bryant game war and memorabilia
kobe is legendary and it'd be insane not to follow up so i've convinced rick to help
me chase down the deal in sunny california i figured since i'm doing the driving hopefully
rick will be doing the buying when we go in here i want you to be on your best behavior
don't say nothing crazy all right took a lot of work to get here today
how you doing chum lee how's it going called about the kobe bryant collection
yeah thank you so much for coming holy coby wow this is a lot to take in rick um whoa
since 1998 my father and i have been collecting kobe bryant memorabilia some
of them are game used balls um some of them consist of game use jerseys and warm-ups that
are signed along with some signed shoes my father and i are looking to share our kobe
bryant collection with everyone else and we're willing to sell the collection for 750 000
kobe bryant is a legend the stuff that kobe bryant accomplished on the basketball court is next to
none he was an 18-time all-star he won two nba finals mvps he won one regular season mvp yeah
i mean he's an iconic person people love him and um he passed away way too young and you got a hell
of a collection here let me show you some of the stuff i have laid out okay so back in uh 2002 uh
kobe didn't have a shoe deal so he was constantly switching up his shoes here's the allen iversons
the jordans and then these are the jordans from space jam 2002 2003 kobe had just got out of the
his adidas contract and he had a one-year clause on his contract we couldn't resign with anybody
so he's not wearing adidas like when he first started he wore the allen iris and reeboks and
these are player editions made for kovi um these are both jordans these are some of the most iconic
jordans ever made and kobe got to wear these on the court rick the next year he signed with nike
kobe's signature nike shoe was made and i mean the rest is history okay so what's the deal with the
print right here yeah so this is a print signature by kobe and then he actually officially signed it
on the left right there okay and this is you know kobe number 24. he was originally number eight but
kobe actually switched up numbers in the middle of his career even when you switch teams you usually
keep your number when you're a player like kobe i mean arguably the greatest player ever
maybe he just thought he was three times better are these game worn shorts yeah these are
actually his rookie shorts and these are right before they switched over to the baggy long cut
okay and those are game worn jerseys and maybe a practice a warm-up jacket uh yeah i have
two game worn jerseys and then the practice warm-up mind if i take a look yeah go for it
this is where you always see kobe on either this yellow jacket right here or this one
right here walking on the court oh this one's signed and what about these balls right here
this is actually a really cool piece this is the only ball
known to be signed by jordan phil jackson and kobe that's pretty cool those are like the goats so
how much is the whole collection uh the whole collection i'm looking to get 750 000.
that's just a little bit too much for us right now me and rick are going through all these items
so i picked out a few things that i think would be good for the shop a few pairs of game warm player
edition sign sneakers a warm-up suit a jacket some kobe artwork a ticket from kobe's final
game and a signed piece of the court from the forum i've already tipped off our sports expert
dan about this collection i have a feeling he's gonna be as excited about this collection as i am
there are big collections of kobe bryant stuff but this is a massive collection i picked out a lot
of good stuff here i mean check those out right there have you seen those before these are insane
no this represents his stitches when he had his operation for the achilles this
this just makes me speechless because you just can't find this type of stuff it doesn't exist
we have this a signed piece from the forum floor yeah piece of the forum
how cool is that yeah it's signed by magic johnson and kobe bryant i'll tell you right now when you
see something that you really can't replace you want to grab it you're not going to find this
stuff and i can see right away that this is the ticket from his last game april 13 2016. i was
not leaving here without picking out a pair of shoes and i chose the reeboks because i mean
these are the allen iversons they're player edition made for kobe and the lakers colors
you know both shoes are signed obviously you know shoes the the 0-203 reebok shoes are you know
iconic this was the coolest time in basketball you never see a star of this caliber without a
shoe contract you did a great job in picking out all this stuff i think so yeah i mean it's a great
variety listen nick and his dad did the great job on collecting this whole thing i'll give
him credit i'm just happy that i can maybe put something into my collection at home i let chum
pick out what he thinks we should buy but it's my money i mean you deal with this autographed stuff
all the time are these kobe's autographs on these things i definitely feel confident that these are
his autographs i mean he did that k with the loop a lot and you know these are are very very
identical to the signatures okay so what do you think all this stuff would retail for as far as
value you have about 11 pieces here retail value a very fair retail value you're looking at 75 000
thanks man i'll let you know
good luck amazing collection thank you well you heard what dan said should i negotiate for the
whole lot rick or should i just pick a couple no no you know i'll take over from here chum i'll
supervise what would you take for everything on the table i'm looking for about 70 000.
like dan said you can probably get those numbers if you have a retail store
yeah you're not going to be able to retail them i will give you 35 000 right now oh that's a little
too low for what i'm actually looking for um i mean what's your best price uh fifty thousand
i'll give you forty thousand forty thousand dollars cash for what's on the table 40 000.
we got a deal 40 000 great deal uh let me grab the car i'll get you checked i'll be
right back sounds good thank you uh take these right now don't mind
so rick and i decided to settle on 40 000 and i felt that was a pretty fair
bargain considering it's not about the money it's about breaking up the kobe collection
sharing it with everybody else however i am going to miss those allen iverson sneakers
why do you have my kobe shoes well if i have anything to say about it they won't be yours
much longer when do we get those chum got a lion on a bunch of game used kobe stuff and i went down
la and check these out kobe bryant game worn autographed one of the coolest shoes he wore
outside of a nike we got a lot of stuff i spent forty thousand well i brought in some good stuff
i'm hoping we can work out some kind of trade what are you talking about chum well you've
been talking about you want to make the store more hip and appeal to the younger crowd so i
brought in some good stuff i'm not really big on trading how much you want for the shoes 25 000
no that's too much got a lot of stuff here rick like this skateboard for example goes for about
2 300 i figured we could work that into the trade i'll give you a good deal that's something you can
sell the store i really want these shoes for my collection they'd pay me for them
these right here player edition lebrons just like these but they're not signed or game
worn or nothing like that no just give me cash you know what chum too i'll make it easy for
you give me 19 000 you can have them 19 000 trade 19 000 cash 19 000 trade 19 000 cash
rick i'm telling you you really need this stuff in your shop it's going to open you up
to the younger generation i got some more stuff in my car i'll be right back
didn't i just tell him i didn't want to trade for anything i just wanted money just humor him
for a while fine but i'm not trading for the shoes i want cash you want to buy them now you