Most basketball fans lament that the world never saw LeBron James and Michael Jordan match up on an NBA court. But what if instead of playing against each other, they shared the floor as teammates? Believe it or not, MJ and LeBron teamed up—and not only in someone’s NBA 2K franchise mode. After a photo of the two icons standing on a court together went viral, King James revealed that he attended one of Jordan’s youth basketball camps in Santa Barbara during his rookie season—and together, they balled out.
“The camp would end, [and] he would let the kids watch the first game around 8:30, and then he’d have all of the kids leave and then we would stay along with the college kids that he would invite to the camp,"""" James said. """"We would get a good run in for about an hour, hour-15. I was on the team with MJ and we didn’t lose a game.”
The thought of Jordan throwing lobs to a young LeBron or MJ hitting a jumper off a dime from James could make any basketball fan giddy. But while the world can only imagine their dominance that day, this card brings them together with their matching jersey numbers acting as the anchor. This 2005-06 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Number Pieces has a game-used patch swatch from each legend with a prominent 23 display window. The signatures are both on-card.
Appropriately numbered /23, matching the iconic number worn by both superstars and providing even further symmetry to an all-time great basketball card of, arguably, the two best to ever play the game.
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