This image provided by Goldin Auctions on Friday, May 3, 2013, shows a team issued Kobe Bryant 2000 Los Angeles Lakers championship ring given by Kobe to his father Joe Bryant. Goldin Auctions is suing for the right to sell the stuff after the NBA star’s lawyers wrote the firm to say it could not. Bryant contends that his mother, Pamela Bryant, doesn’t have the right to sell the collectibles including his high school letters, a 2000 NBA championship ring and hundreds of other items. (AP Photo/Goldin Auctions)
WEST BERLIN, New Jersey — Two NBA championship rings that Kobe Bryant gave to his parents each sold for more than $100,000 at auction.
Goldin Auctions said six items of Bryant memorabilia sold for a combined $433,531 in the monthlong auction that closed Saturday.
A 2000 Lakers championship ring gifted by Bryant to his father, Joe, sold for $174,184. A ring given to his mother, Pamela, from the same championship season went for $108,153.
Bryant had filed a suit against the auction company, saying his mother didn’t have the right to sell the items. A settlement was reached last month allowing six items to be auctioned after the five-time NBA champion’s parents apologized to their son.
As part of the sale, Goldin Auctions is donating $62,565 to The Bully Project, a Bryant-supported charity.