Six minutes to make Eddie Jones breathe, a shot taken and wrong, a rebound, a stoppage, a lost ball, a foul. It was November 3, 1996, the Lakers beat Minnesota 91-85 and objectively we have seen the best rookie debuts, but everyone knew that Kobe Bryant, 18 years old, chosen with the number 13 at the Draft, was better than this. What nobody expected is that he would have established himself as one of the best basketball players ever: 5 times NBA champion, twice MVP of the Finals, twice best marker, eleven times best quintet and nine best defensive quintet, 18 times all star of which 4 from MVP and a race of the crushed crushed, two Olympic golds. Well, the tank top of that debut redeemed the debut itself: it was beaten by Sotheby’s for 7 million dollars and stands in fourth place among the most expensive shirts sold at auction. Here are the others
