Teen snags Wilt Chamberlain's L.A. Lakers jacket at Goodwill for $4. He could make $335K

When Quinn Brown, 19, first laid eyes on basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain's 1972 Los Angeles Lakers warmup jacket, it was in somebody else's hands.

The Portland, Ore., teen was picking through bins of new arrivals at a local Goodwill store in January when he saw another shopper pick up a massive, bright yellow jacket with Chamberlain's name etched on the back. The shopper eyed it indecisively, then tossed it back.

Brown snatched it up. As an avid thrifter, he says he knew right away it was a good find. He bought it for $3.07 US ($4.36 Cdn), figuring he could sell it online for a couple hundred bucks. 

Now it's on the auction block at Sotheby's, where it's expected to fetch as much as $250,000 US ($355,150 Cdn). 

"I could tell it was good, but I would have never assumed that it would have actually been [Chamberlain's] jacket," Brown told As It Happens host Nil Kӧksal. "It was kind of just something you find."

Brown, a recent high-school graduate, has made something of a career out of picking through Goodwill bins, a skill he learned from his twin sister. 

He buys used clothes by the pound, scouring bins for interesting or rare items, which he sells online for a profit. 

"I kind of just have an eye for what I think other people want to wear," he said. 

Before now, his biggest find was a vintage T-shirt from Sub Pop, a Seattle record label that made a name for itself in the '90s by signing Nirvana and Soundgarden. He bought it for a dollar and sold it for $250 US. 

When he examined the Chamberlain jacket, he said he knew it was vintage. It featured Scovill buttons, which were discontinued in 1984.

But it wasn't until he started looking up photos online that he began to suspect it might actually have been worn by