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Kobe Bryant’s Lakers championship ring from 2000 for a staggering $927,000. This amount, including the buyer’s premium, has established a new standard: the highest price ever paid for an NBA title ring.

Kobe Bryant’s first NBA championship ring is up for auction, and fans were understandably taken aback. Emotions ran high when Bryant’s parents, Joe and Pamela Bryant, decided to offer the highest bidder an artifact of hard work and dedication and, for many sports lovers, the pinnacle of athletic achievement.In 2000, Kobe clinched his inaugural NBA championship with the Los Angeles Lakers, marking the beginning of a remarkable career that would see him win five NBA titles.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentRupert Everett and Malcom McDowell have joined the cast of Amazon heist series “Everybody Loves Diamonds,” being produced as an original in Italy, where the streamer on Tuesday also revealed a slew of unscripted local shows now on its Italian slate.Amazon’s previously announced high-end show follows a group of thieves led by Sicilian mastermind Leonardo Notarbartolo — being played by Italy’s Kim Rossi Stewart — who in 2003 managed to circumvent the advanced security system of the Antwerp Diamond Center and steal precious stones worth more than $100 million. Everett and McDowell play secondary roles that will add international heft to the high-end skein produced by Fremantle-owned Wildside that will drop globally in 2023.

A 14-karat gold and diamond ring Kobe Bryant bought for his mom, who later sold it, has fetched more than $206,000 from an unnamed collector in an auction.The ring sold in a Goldin Auctionsevent for $206,080, TMZ reported event Sunday, following a 20-bid sale in which the minimum bid was set at $15,000.The private collector obtained the ring in a six-item lot for $280,000 in 2013 from Bryant's parents Joe and Pamela Bryant in a sale that was preceded by some family drama, as Kobe, 41, was opposed to the sale.