John Wooden, best known for coaching UCL A to 10 national championships in 12 years, is also one of produce all-time best players. John Wooden was named a three-time consensus all-American player and the national player of the year in 1932 as a boiler maker. Finding sports memorabilia from that time period is extremely rare. And when John Wooden's 1930s jersey resurfaced in 2018, a popular alumnus made sure it would find a home at Purdue. I'm fully confident that it was worn by John Wooden in the 1930s. It's a piece of history. It's priceless and there's no doubt mine is priceless. In the college basketball circles, John Wooden's most known as being the 10-time national champion coach of UCL A for proof fans and fans of the Midwest. He's a three-time all-American from Purdue in the 1932 national player of the year. It was built pretty good. He played hard core defense. But his handling was ball skills and supper. You can see that on tape. It was pretty amazing. Obviously, the 1930s was a different, very different era of basketball. Defense was stressed a lot more than offense. John Wooden was a feisty guard as legend has it. A good shooter and just a very knowledgeable player. The story is that John Wooden gave the jersey to a gentleman named Frank Neff, the two were classmates at Purdue. Frank Neff gave it to his grandson John who had it in his house for many years, just stowed away safely in a box. Stuff from the 20s and 30s is really rare, very rare. In college basketball for sure. It's something that Johnny Wooden had been a jersey that he wore. It's just unbelievable. How many jerseys and other pieces of equipment from that time frame really up into the 70s were refurbished reused, sent down to the junior varsity, maybe the freshman team? I'd call it decent shape. It's kind of a few moth holes that you'd expect. One of the letters of Purdue is not still fully sewn on. The other ones are the numbers. The number 13 is very much intact on the back, nothing from the 1930s. I think it's pretty phenomenal. Orlando and I are both sportsmen of the collectors. When the jersey came on auction, certainly something that both of us thought would be great to have it Purdue, if not in our own collections. When I saw it online, I started to see the first part. I got to read the descriptions of all the information about it. The estimate was between $10,000 to $30,000. I thought I really wanted to win this to put it in Brunos. We got like 10-12 days before the auction closed and it's already 39,000. I got to find somebody who's got some deeper pockets. The first thing I thought of was the texture buddy Drew, our buddy Drew, and see if he'd be interested in having it for his collection. A lot of people don't realize that Drew Brees is a big Johnny Wooden fan and idolizes him. Orlando made that connection and Drew didn't hesitate. I get a response back from Drew and it's one word that goes, wow, he goes, we got to get this. I thought we could get it for about $70,000, $70,000, $70,000, and Drew said, well, I'm in for $100,000. When I kicked $100,000 a bit, it went, automatically went to $150,000. So we got a little competition going. At that point in time he said, just do whatever you got to do to get it. We never discussed a final number. When I was sitting done at the final of the price, including all the various fees that go with auctioned, it was $264,000. It just shows not only his generosity but his love for his alma mater and the fact that if you want to have this and loan it to Purdue, just speaks to all the good things that Drew epitomizes. We had a John Prodicle event down in Jeffersonville, Indiana where the plan was to unveil the jersey and Drew is going to actually come in for that event. I guess the one unfortunate part of the story throughout all the great things that the story is is Drew's flight was canceled due to weather. So he couldn't be there in person but Drew ever thoughtful and always wanted to not disappoint did a quick video. So tonight in front of all of you, we are making the big announcement, we are making the big reveal. Here is John Wooden's original jersey that will reside in the halls of MacIrina forever. We consult with a number of folks who have done museums and memorabilia displays and finally settled on a company out of Kentucky that obviously it's quite an investment that Drew made and we pledged to take care of it. It's in MacIrina on the concourse. We also have a letter sweater from John Wooden that he wore that his family gave the university upon his passing. I think Purdue did a great job helping with this display they put out. We decided to highlight the national players of the year and we have three. We have John Wooden, we have Glen Robinson and Stephanie White so we made a display with all three of them. I think the first thing that stands out as you compare it with not only Glen Robinson's jersey but Stephanie White's jersey, the material is so different, the size is so different. John Wooden was not a large man by any stretch when you compare him with Glen or even Stephanie. I think it's the greatest piece of memorabilia that we've got on display or in our archives have something like this, one of the all-time great basketball icons, it's just phenomenal. What's better the fact that we have or the fact that Drew breeze loaned it to us, I mean they're equally awesome. Through the generosity of Drew breeze the legacy of one of the most revered players and coaches in the history of sports will live on in MacIrina for years to come. We'll be back after the break.