A Swift-ly raising bid: Taylor's NBA courtside seat up for auction
India, June 10 -- I
f you thought you'd seen every kind of Swiftie memorabilia imaginable, think again. A standard folding chair that singer Taylor Swift sat on for just a few hours while attending an NBA game last month is now at the centre of a heated online bidding war.
The chair is being sold by the American professional basketball team Cleveland Cavaliers via memorabilia platform The Realest. Swift sat on the seat during Game 3 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals in Cleveland. Taylor, 36, had attended the match with her fiance, American footballer Travis Kelce, 36.
To authenticate the item, the auction house reportedly used a tracking system to verify that it is the exact seat Swift occupied during the game. While bidding opened at a modest $100 (approximately Rs.8,500), collectors have already driven the price past $6,000 (around Rs.5.7 lakh).
The Cavaliers are also auctioning off the chairs used by Kelce, as well as actors Ben Stiller and Timothee Chalamet, with Swift's seat currently attracting the highest bids as the June 14 deadline approaches. HTC...
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