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Teen Turns $3 Goodwill Find into $89,600 Wilt Jacket

7/23/2026

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  • Quinn Brown, 19, sold Wilt Chamberlain’s 1972 NBA Finals warm-up jacket for $89,600 at a Sotheby’s auction, after buying it for $3.07 at Goodwill, yielding a return of about 29,000 times his investment.
  • Sotheby’s estimated the jacket at $150,000-$250,000.
  • A Chamberlain jersey from the same 1972 Finals sold for $4.9 million at Sotheby’s in 2023, the fourth-most expensive NBA jersey the house has auctioned.