"Former Chicago Bull Randy Brown's three NBA championship rings were sold at auction Thursday for $53,833.
The winning bidder, identified only as "RingKing," outbid Michael Jordan's publicist.
A judge ordered them sold following Brown's 2008 bankruptcy filing. The minimum bid was $19,000.
Earlier this month, Brown said the rings -- from 1996, '97 and '98 -- were his most cherished possessions.
"People figure that here's this guy ... he's played in the NBA, he just got fired [as a coach], he's broke, and here he is giving up his championship rings," he said. "That hurt me because those [rings] mean a lot to me."
MJ's publicist, Estee Portnoy, declined to say whether she was bidding on Jordan's behalf. Her final bid was $40,000. "I was just bidding to win," she said. "I didn't win.""
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