Kobe-signed Lakers championship basketballs sell for big bucks - ESPN
Championship-clinching basketballs from the 2000 NBA Finals — which marked Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal's first title together and the Lakers' first title since 1988 — and the 2001 NBA Finals, the second in the Lakers' three-peat, sold for $508,000 and $317,500, respectively, at Sotheby's.


