Interested in buying a locker LeBron James may or may not have used when he was visiting the Milwaukee Bucks? You’re in luck — and it’ll only cost you $120.
You can own a locker from the Milwaukee Bucks’ old arena for just $120
And the proceeds go to Habitat for Humanity!
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Several items from the soon-to-be-demolished Bradley Center are either currently or about to be on sale at eastern Wisconsin’s Habitat for Humanity ReStore shops. For a low, low price, you can own a piece of pro sports history — and all the money will go towards building homes for people that need them.
Among the first artifacts to land in ReStores: lockers from the visitors’ locker room priced at $125 each and clearly marked as coming from the Bradley Center.
”These are ready for someone’s mudroom or for someone’s garage,” said Jake Weiler, deconstruction services manager for the Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity.
Other items include Milwaukee Admirals lockers — bench-style chairs with storage underneath for $65 each. Upper storage cabinets are $30. A fancy light fixture is $55.
Chairs from the arena’s theater boxes are sold in “runs” at $30 per chair, so a six-seat section is $180.
The salvage operation marks the beginning of the end for the former home of the Bucks, Marquette University basketball, and the AHL’s Milwaukee Admirals. The Bradley Center, opened in 1988 and complained about since 1990, was phased out of operation with the August opening of the Fiserv Forum, a building that not only has more amenities, but also kinda-sorta looks like an old wooden beer keg from the right angle.
The Bucks, who own the Bradley Center as part of the deal that granted funding for the Forum, decided to donate the now-unused fixtures to Habitat as well as Milwaukee Public Schools and other groups. Weiler estimated the pieces salvaged from the decommissioned arena would raise more than $50,000 for the home-building group.
The last NBA team to visit the Bradley Center was the Boston Celtics, who played three games in Milwaukee before defeating the Bucks in seven games to open their run to the Eastern Conference Finals. That means some lucky patron could wind up owning the spot where Al Horford, Jayson Tatum, or Semi Olejeye stared down the very real possibility of a first-round loss. There’s no current plans for the home team’s lockers — which would be significantly nicer and personalized with team branding — though Habitat is expected to sell those as well.
Those artifacts of the league’s most “OK” club would likely command a higher price. $120 for a locker that was definitely used by multiple different NBA players seems like a steal — especially when Vanderbilt University successfully auctioned off its old baseball locker at a starting bid of $300. For the price of a couple nice bottles of whiskey, you can turn a locker that may have once housed Kevin Durant or Steph Curry into the centerpiece of your mud room.
Or, since this is Wisconsin, it will be the perfect place to store the beer fridge each family keeps in its garage.
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