According to ESPN, the $2.5 million is the most paid for a Jordan rookie card — signed or unsigned — and the third-highest price in a public sale for any Jordan card. That record is $2.928 million.

An autographed 1986-87 Fleer Michael Jordan rookie card sold for $2.5M via Joopiter, setting a rookie card record.

Sports Team 10's Kevin Moore has the story. It had the NBA trading card community on high alert, hoping to snag that card. As fate would have it that card showed up in a local card shop in Cumberland.

A lot of kids in the '90s saved their Jordan cards in hopes of a future payday, but that's only come to fruition for a relative few ...