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A memorabilia hunter may have made the find of the century when he picked up what turned out to be a genuine Wilt Chamberlain warm-up jacket at a Goodwill store in Portland<\/a> for just $3.07.<\/p>\n

Now, that jacket has sold at auction for $89,000.<\/p>\n

That’s a profit of $88,996.93, which means most of us will be heading to our local Goodwill stores later today and tearing the place apart in search of sports<\/a> memorabilia paydirt.<\/p>\n

TAYLOR SWIFT’S COURTSIDE CHAIR FROM CAVS-KNICKS PLAYOFF GAME IS UP FOR AUCTION FOR THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Of course, anything tied to the late Wilt Chamberlain is going to command top dollar, but this wasn’t any old warm-up jacket. Sotheby’s photo matched it to the 1972 NBA Finals<\/a> and to some other photos shot during the following 1972-73 season.<\/p>\n

Those dates are significant because he was named Finals MVP in the 1972 NBA Finals, while the 1972-73 season was his last in the NBA.<\/p>\n

According to KATU<\/a>, the lucky jacket finder was Quinn Brown, a teenager who has been thrifting and selling the stuff he finds for years.<\/p>\n

Finding a jacket for $3 and flipping it for a shade under $90,000 is about as good as it gets. The only downside was that Sotheby’s actually thought it was going to sell for something in the neighborhood of $150,000 to $250,000.<\/p>\n

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Man, just once I’d love to be on the receiving end of this kind of thrift store or antique<\/a> shop luck.<\/p>\n

Every time I buy something thinking it will be valuable \u2014 like a Spike Jones album or an old “Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace” Taco Bell cup \u2014 it turns out to be worth barely as much as I paid for it.<\/p>\n

Maybe I’m just not looking in the right places… the places I’ve gone to mostly just have crap.<\/p>\n

Congrats to Quinn Brown on one heck of a find.<\/p>\n

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have Goodwill bins to rummage through…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/outkick-sports\/wilt-chamberlain-warm-up-jacket-bought-3-thrift-store-sells-tens-thousands <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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