The mask Kobe Bryant wore after his nose was broken during the All-Star Game was auctioned off on Tuesday. The winning bid, out of 129 total, was $67,100. Kobe donned the protective gear for 11 games, so that works out to $6,100 per contest the buyer paid to own a sweat-stained shroud that, as far as we know, doesn't possess any transformative properties to grant the owner cartoonish powers, as in a certain Jim Carrey flick from our youth - although Kobe was "smokin'" during that stretch, averaging 31.1 ppg and surpassing 29,000 career points with the schnoz shield on (proving that the only thing that could guard him in that span was his own mask). The money went towards Bryant's own eponymous charity, giving a whole new meaning to the phrase 'gross profit.'
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