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Michael Jordan is known as the best NBA player of all time, and now his jersey is the best of all time too.A record-setting auction has enshrined the basketball jersey into the collectible market's rafters, after a memorabilia enthusiast paid millions to get his hands on it.'One of the finest examples of any game-worn jersey I have ever seen.'On Monday, Hunt Auctions announced a private treaty sale for a Michael Jordan game-worn Chicago Bulls jersey from the 1998 NBA Finals.Marketed as the Game 2 jersey — where the Bulls beat the Utah Jazz 93-88 at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah — Jordan's red jerseys from Games 1, 2, and 6 of the finals have become some of the most highly coveted uniforms in basketball history.As one of the "holy grails" of sports, the Game 2 jersey sold for a whopping price of $14 million. The item is a world record for any piece of basketball merch, Hunt Auctions said, and was the second-highest price paid for a game-used jersey from any sport.According to Reuters, the Jordan jersey is second only to Babe Ruth's 1932 World Series uniform when he famously called his shot. That sold for a reported $24.12 million in 2024.For basketball, Jordan is only outdoing himself. The latest auction beat out his own record set in September, which was for a white jersey worn in Game 3 of the same 1998 NBA Finals. That jersey sold for $12.26 million, CBS Chicago reported.Before that, a September 2022 auction saw his Game 1 red jersey go for $10.091 million, which then surpassed soccer legend Diego Maradona's "Hand of God" jersey from the 1986 World Cup that sold for $9.28 million.RELATED: 'It was wrong': Michael Jordan reveals insanely competitive reason for suing NASCAR - YouTube Outside of Jordan, Kobe Bryant has the next most valuable NBA jersey at $7 million, which sold in 2025.According to auctioneers, the record-setting Jordan jersey was originally purchased directly from the Chicago Bulls by a collector and comes with a 2003 letter from Chicago Bulls Director of Community Relations Jeff Schultz."It is my opinion that this jersey is one of the finest examples of any game-worn jersey I have ever seen in my 15+ years of managing the Chicago Bulls memorabilia," Schultz wrote.The jersey has what was described as a "succinct" chain of custody, having changed hands only once since it was purchased from the team. It was also autographed by Jordan himself through a signing authentication by Upper Deck.RELATED: The audience you may need someday JEFF HAYNES/AFP via Getty Images Collector Ron Firman, originally from Rye, New York, thanked the auction house and called Jordan "an incredibly talented player who is admired around the world."Hunt Auctions' David Hunt remarked that Jordan and Ruth items are by far the most coveted in the collector's market for American sports."The record-setting price achieved for the related Michael Jordan jersey is yet another corroborative result as to the significance of Jordan within the industry and popular culture," Hunt said.Hunt added that Jordan memorabilia has been elevated to the status of the "elite asset class more typically reserved for iconic works of art."The 1998 NBA Finals are considered Jordan's "Last Dance" and serve as the backdrop for his iconic Netflix series that shares the same name.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

When Joe Biden’s age and mental fitness was questioned, Democrats would brush it aside with reassurances that the former president was better than ever.Now, Republican Senator Thom Tillis (N.C.) is running the same cover for Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).“Mitch McConnell is retiring this year. I ran into Mitch. The difference between the Biden situation and the Mitch situation is, I’ve had conversations with Mitch. That man’s brain is as sharp as it ever is,” Tillis claimed in an interview on MS NOW.“His body’s failing him because he’s had a lifelong struggle with polio,” he added.“You’ve got to be kidding,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray comments. “I love how these childhood diseases come back up as a convenient excuse for what’s going on now.”“Like it did with Biden stuttering,” he adds.Tillis went on to say that he met with McConnell “a couple of weeks ago” and asked him how he was doing.“He spent probably less than 30 seconds talking about that, and he immediately jumped to, ‘What are we going to do to help Ukraine? What are we going to do to save the Senate and keep the filibuster?’”“Does that sound like a man who’s not prepared to actually finish out his term?” he asked.“Thom Tillis is doing the exact same thing Democrats did with Biden,” Gray comments. “That’s amazing.”Want more from Pat Gray?To enjoy more of Pat's biting analysis and signature wit as he restores common sense to a senseless world, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Young Americans might be trending straighter these days, but recent polling indicates that some of their minds are still twisted.According to the Yale University-based Buckley Institute's 2026 National Undergraduate Study, undergraduate students — self-identified liberals in particular — are increasingly a censorious, thin-skinned bunch who not only entertain anti-American views but are warming up to socialism.'The 14-point spread in favor of socialism is the largest in the five years the question has been asked.'Pollsters with Inquire LLC found in their survey of over 800 students that while 87% of respondents agreed that the First Amendment is important and needs to be followed and respected in today's society, a record high 49% of undergraduate students overall said that they favor their college or university "having speech codes to regulate speech for students and faculty." A majority of liberal students — 53% — were on board with speech regulation on college campuses.When asked whether they would avoid taking a class with a professor who publicly shared opinions they disagreed with, 55% of liberal students, 33% of moderates, and 33% of conservatives confirmed that they would steer clear.Whereas 27% of conservative students said that they could not bring themselves to be "close friends with someone who affiliates with a different political party," 65% of liberal students said that they keep their friend groups politically homogeneous.A plurality of liberal students (47%) said that offensive speech should be subject to criminal prosecution. Only 24% of conservatives and 34% of moderates agreed with the proposition.RELATED: 'Reign of terror': One-third of Democrats give thumbs-up to Trump assassination MELISSA MAJCHRZAK/AFP via Getty ImagesAs for the use of physical violence to prevent someone from uttering so-called hate speech or making "racially charged comments," 45% of all respondents said it was justifiable.When broken down by ideological affiliation, a majority of liberals were once again in the extreme camp, with 54% agreeing that violence is sometimes warranted. Only 30% of conservatives and 36% of moderates agreed.Perhaps more troubling, when asked about the Turning Point USA founder's assassination last year at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, 38% of liberal respondents agreed with the statement, "Charlie Kirk's rhetoric was harmful and threatening to many people. It should not be a surprise that his words had consequences."Seven percent of conservative students similarly agreed with the statement, which effectively justifies Kirk's murder.Only 13% of all respondents overall said that Kirk's rhetoric "was neither harmful nor threatening and that his assassination is a bad sign for public discourse on college campuses."Unsurprisingly, a majority (58%) of the liberal cohort that appeared receptive to both censorship and political violence said that they prefer to live under a socialist regime. Fifty-seven percent of liberals also said that socialist countries like Cuba and the former Soviet Union "offer a better economic model than capitalist countries like the United States."Nineteen percent of conservatives and 28% of moderates also chose socialism over capitalism, according to the survey. On the question of whether countries like the failed Soviet Union and failing Republic of Cuba offer preferable economic models to the U.S., 32% of moderates and 53% of conservatives said they disagreed."The 14-point spread in favor of socialism is the largest in the five years the question has been asked and only the third time socialism has led capitalism," the Buckley Institute said. "The only major demographic groups that favored capitalism over socialism were conservatives and Asian students."Not only have liberal undergraduate students idealized failed states where food scarcity is the norm, they have adopted cynical views about the promise of equality in America.Fifty percent of all respondents — and 66% of liberal respondents — agreed with the statement that "America is inextricably linked to white supremacy and in general most minorities remain excluded from the American promise of equality."When asked whether America "deserved September 11th" — an Islamic terrorist attack that claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people, including children, and injured thousands more — a staggering 22% overall somewhat or strongly agreed, including 28% of liberals, 16% of moderates, and 17% of conservatives.A vast majority — 72% — disagreed, 63% strongly so. Another 6% said they weren't sure.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Certain types of bets shouldn't be allowed, and the NFL says it knows which ones cause the most corruption.The league is so sure, in fact, it wants the Supreme Court to weigh in on the regulatory issues surrounding prediction markets.'The NFL's highest priority is preserving the integrity of its games.'In September, New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport asked the Supreme Court of the United States to review a court decision that puts prediction markets under the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which makes them only subject to federal regulation.The petition has since been joined by about 40 states.The NFL wrote an amicus brief last week in support of New Jersey's petition for SCOTUS to grant certiorari, meaning a judicial review, of platforms like Kalshi, which the league mentioned by name.The football league argued that prediction markets allow bets that otherwise wouldn't — and shouldn't, in their view — be possible to make on sporting events, due to the impact they could have on the integrity of games."Federally designated contract markets (DCMs) like respondent Kalshi" are not "subject to the same rigorous regulatory constructs and oversight provided by state gaming authorities," the NFL wrote.The league claimed that on the first Sunday of the 2026 NFL season, more than half of all prediction market trading was related to the NFL, $1.8 billion out of $3.3 billion. Simply put, there is a lot of risk that comes out of such a high volume of wagers.The league says integrity is at stake when bets on injuries, individuals' plays, and referee calls are allowed, all of which they say can be easily known or individually manipulated.In a media kit outlining the league's approach to betting, the NFL explained the type of bets it believes should be barred.Bets that are "inherently objectionable" are listed first, which are defined as being "derogatory or inflammatory" and related to player injuries, fan safety, or misconduct.This would likely include infamous wagers placed on events, like sex toys being thrown on the court at WNBA games.RELATED: What’s really behind the opposition to data centers Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images Bets based on outcomes that are "100% determinable by one person in one play," like a field goal attempt or pass completion, should also be banned, the NFL says, as should those involving predetermined outcomes "directly related to on-field competition," such as a team's first play being a run or pass.These and "officiating-related" bets being allowed present an "undue to risk to game integrity," the league says."The NFL's highest priority is preserving the integrity of its games," the league reiterated in its brief."State and sportsbook protections include bans on manipulable or objectionable bets, information-sharing agreements regarding official league data for accurate bet settlement, and bet monitoring to ensure that league insiders do not trade on material nonpublic information," it added.The NFL pushed further restrictions, such as increasing the age requirement of prediction markets from 18 to 21 years old.Furthermore, the NFL said there simply aren't enough regulators monitoring sporting events at the federal level, especially when compared to state regulators."Nevada and Pennsylvania, for instance, have close to 400 employees each. ... The Commission, meanwhile, has only 543 employees covering the entire country and whose responsibilities include a broad range of derivatives beyond event contracts," the NFL argued.RELATED: Curious about prediction markets? Stu Burguiere shows you the ropes. Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images A Kalshi spokesperson told the New York Post in a statement that its top priority is market integrity."That priority is reflected in the fact that every other major sports league and integrity partner in the United States is partnering with Kalshi – including the MLB, NHL, and others," the spokesperson said."Contrary to the NFL's statements, the CFTC is actively policing sports-related markets, which are now listed on nearly every U.S. commodities exchange," Kalshi added.Polymarket told the Post that it shares the NFL's commitment to integrity, stating that as the reason behind its "advanced market surveillance tools" and collaboration with federal regulators.The NFL has partnerships with three betting platforms for the 2026 season: DraftKings, FanDuel, and Fanatics Betting and Gaming.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!