🏀 Vintage Autographed/Signed Larry Johnson Charlotte Teal Basketball Jersey PSA/DNA COA – Hand-Signed by “Grandmama,” the Power Forward Who Was Drafted First Overall by the Charlotte Hornets in 1991, Won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, Became the Face of the Franchise That Introduced One of the Most Beloved Teal-and-Purple Jerseys in NBA History, and Made His Name Synonymous with the Exciting Young Charlotte Hornets Teams That Packed the Charlotte Coliseum Through the Early 1990s, Confirmed Authentic by PSA/DNA

🏀 The Charlotte Hornets teal basketball jersey is one of the NBA's most celebrated uniform designs – a teal and purple color combination that the expansion franchise introduced when it entered the league in 1988 and that became one of the most commercially popular jersey designs in professional basketball history, generating the kind of merchandise demand that expansion teams rarely create and that spoke to the visual freshness of a color scheme that had no precedent in the traditional NBA uniform landscape. Larry Johnson wore that teal in Charlotte from 1991 through 1996, and his signature on this jersey connects the garment to the most exciting period in Charlotte Hornets franchise history – the early 1990s run when Johnson, Alonzo Mourning, and the Hornets' roster gave Charlotte its most competitive and crowd-generating basketball since the franchise's 1988 inception. PSA/DNA authentication confirms that the signature on this teal jersey is Larry Johnson's own.

🏀 Larry Johnson was born March 14, 1969, in Tyler, Texas, and grew up in Dallas before developing his basketball game at Odessa College in the Junior College system before transferring to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas – the program that head coach Jerry Tarkanian had built into one of college basketball's most physically imposing and nationally watched programs by the late 1980s. The UNLV Runnin' Rebels of 1990 won the NCAA National Championship with Johnson as one of the team's most dominant physical presences – a power forward whose combination of strength, low-post skill, and athletic quickness made him the prototype of the modern NBA power forward in a way that made his transition from the college game to the professional level appear seamless from the moment his first NBA season began. The Charlotte Hornets selected him with the first overall pick in the 1991 NBA Draft, installing him as the franchise's most significant acquisition in its brief three-year history.

🏀 Larry Johnson's 1991-92 rookie season produced the NBA Rookie of the Year Award – a debut campaign whose combination of scoring, rebounding, and post presence confirmed that the player the Hornets had selected first overall was exactly the franchise cornerstone that the team's fan base and ownership had been counting on. His partnership with Alonzo Mourning, drafted second overall by Charlotte the following year, gave the Hornets a front court whose physical and competitive presence packed the Charlotte Coliseum with crowds that made the arena one of the loudest and most electric environments in the early 1990s NBA – an atmosphere that the franchise's expansion success and the teal jersey's merchandising momentum combined to create. The “Grandmama” Nike advertising campaign – the series in which Johnson appeared as an elderly woman whose surprising athleticism was the campaign's central joke – gave him a national cultural presence that extended far beyond the Charlotte market and made his name one of the most recognized in professional basketball at the height of the NBA's 1990s popularity wave. Condition: NOS.

✍️ This Charlotte Hornets teal basketball jersey carries Larry Johnson's personal signature, confirmed authentic by PSA/DNA. Condition: NOS.

🏀 Larry Johnson. “Grandmama.” Tyler, Texas. Odessa College. UNLV Runnin' Rebels. 1990 NCAA National Champions. Charlotte Hornets. 1991 NBA Draft First Overall Pick. 1992 NBA Rookie of the Year. Charlotte Teal Basketball Jersey. PSA/DNA COA. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.