How much is it worth to sit courtside with Spike Lee in Madison Square Garden for Michael Jordan's debut with the Washington Wizards?

	What would you bid to sit next to an acclaimed filmmaker?

For one person, it was worth $101,300.

That was the winning bid in the Yahoo! auction for the front-row seat next to the ultimate Knicks fan for the Oct. 30 home opener against the Wizards. Proceeds from the auction will be donated to the Uniformed Firefighters Association Widows' and Children's Fund.

"The way I see it, if you spend in excess of $100,000, whoever it is, I'll sit next to you," Lee told ESPNEWS on Monday. Lee told the New York Post he expected the ticket to bring 10 times its face value of $1,600 when he donated it to the NBA for the auction.

Interest in the auction was phenomenal, according to Rich Godwin, senior brand manager of Yahoo! Auctions. There were 138 bids placed on the ticket, including one from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, since the online auction began Oct. 9.

"It's the most page views for a single item since we started doing auctions three years ago," Godwin said Monday.

The bidding closed at 12:14 p.m. ET Tuesday. The winning bid is tax deductible, minus the face value of the ticket.

Bidding opened at $10,000 with $100 incremental increases. Cuban bumped the bidding from $40,200 to $50,000 on Oct. 12. Bidding topped $100,000 on Monday.

The NBA is in the process of verifying the winning bid. NBA spokesperson Mike Bass said the league would not release the winner's identity without the person's permission.

Another Yahoo! auction to serve as the Knicks' ballperson for the Oct. 30 game was up to $6,600 as of 1 a.m. ET Wednesday, with less than two days of bidding to go. Proceeds from that auction will go to the Red Holzman Knicks Kids Foundation.

Darren Rovell, who covers sports business for ESPN.com, can be reached at darren.rovell@espn.com.