{"id":2811,"date":"2016-04-18T04:56:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T20:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/real-people-actually-bid-to-buy-a-bag-of-air-from-kobe-bryants-last-game\/"},"modified":"2016-04-18T04:56:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T20:56:32","slug":"real-people-actually-bid-to-buy-a-bag-of-air-from-kobe-bryants-last-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/real-people-actually-bid-to-buy-a-bag-of-air-from-kobe-bryants-last-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Real people actually bid to buy a bag of air from Kobe Bryant&#039;s last game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kobebryant\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.3.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzE3L2Y5L2tvYmVicnlhbnQuOTc5YzYuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJNTc1eDMyMyMKZQlqcGc\/4544524b\/f1c\/kobebryant.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Real+people+actually+bid+to+buy+a+bag+of+air+from+Kobe+Bryant%27s+last+game&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F17%2Fkobe-bryant-bottle-air%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F17%2Fkobe-bryant-bottle-air%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>You may never be able to touch Kobe Bryant or see him in person \u2014 but now you can finally buy a bag of air he maybe farted in.<\/p>\n<p>In the grand tradition of people seriously selling bags of air (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/kanye-west-air-selling-for--60-000-200439154.html\">yes, it&#8217;s a thing<\/a>), someone decided to sell air from Kobe&#8217;s last game at the Staples Center. Though eBay has since taken the advertisement down, the bidding went up to $13,600.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/15\/kobe-bryant-final-game-espn\/\">Inside the truck: How ESPN handled Kobe Bryant&#8217;s epic final game<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sadly, that wasn&#8217;t the most outrageous price for Bryant merchandise, although it was the most ethereal product. There were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/story\/kobe-bryant-bag-of-air-ebay-041716\">$38,000 Kobe jackets<\/a> and $5,000 Kobe hats. To commemorate Kobe&#8217;s last day on the court, the Lakers sold a record $1.2 million in gear. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/17\/kobe-bryant-bottle-air\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/ebay\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Ebay<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/wtf\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Wtf<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/weird-news\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Weird News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/kobe-bryant\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Kobe Bryant<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/watercooler\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Watercooler<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/H2_mXpccxUM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may never be able to touch Kobe Bryant or see him in person \u2014 but now you can finally buy a bag of air he maybe farted in. In the grand tradition of people seriously selling bags of air &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/real-people-actually-bid-to-buy-a-bag-of-air-from-kobe-bryants-last-game\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1818,1885,735,1059,1083],"class_list":["post-2811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-ebay","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-watercooler","tag-weird-news","tag-wtf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}