He Miami Heat He would have been the victim of one of the largest sports memorabilia theft in the United States, as the institution would have lost millions of dollars in a fact that is currently under investigation, according to Amin Elhassan, a former director of the NBA.
Elhassan revealed the alleged robbery during a recent appearance in “The Dan Batard Show”. According to their information, authenticated collectibles of the NBA finals belonging to the Heat were stolen and sold for a period of at least 18 months, in all types of markets.
“Sold by many, many, many millions of dollars, perhaps one of the largest robberies of this type,” said Elhassan. “As they described it to me, this is one of the elderly, but the greatest, theft of memorabilia in the history of this country in any sport,” he added.
For his part, Travis Nichols, director of Operations at ‘The Collectors Club’ in Wynwood, neighborhood of Miami, stressed that even the individual shirts of the players can be worth thousands of dollars.
“I have seen jerseys like those selling for tens of thousands of dollars. To hundreds of thousands of dollars, easily,” said Nichols, in statements collected by the local portal10.com.
Nichols also made it clear that it will not be easy to be able to recover the stolen memorabilia, because of how difficult it may be to track it.
“I could publish this on eBay and sell it piece by piece. If the robbery went unnoticed, the sale could go unnoticed,” he explained.
Meanwhile, the Heat just said that “we cannot comment on an ongoing investigation”, which, at most, confirmed the theft and the research process that is currently maintained.
A policeman involved?
Similarly, Elhassan also indicated that a Miami police could be involved in theft, although such information has not been confirmed.
The Heat continues in its preparations for the next NBA campaign, in which they will go in search of claim after a disappointing performance in the previous contest. Miami has been linked to several weight players during the recess between contests, but so far the uproar has been more than what the organization has really achieved in the market.
