Michael Jordan’s sneakers fetch record $560,000 at Sotheby’s

A game-worn pair of Nike sneakers from Michael Jordan’s glory days bought for a file $560,000 — nearly 4 instances the preliminary estimate for the autographed sneakers, Sotheby’s stated.

Bidding for the “Air Jordan 1s,” custom-made for the Hall of Famer in sizes 13 and 13 half within the Chicago Bulls colours, began greater than per week in the past in New York. The public sale home earlier estimated they’d fetch as a lot as $150,000.

Sotheby’s held an earlier file for sneakers at public sale with $437,500 paid for Nike’s “Moon Shoe” final yr.

The “Air Jordan 1s” got here from the gathering of Jordan Geller, a collector and founding father of the Shoezeum, the world’s first sneaker museum, Sotheby’s stated.

In the caption on their Instagram put up, Sotheby’s wrote, “Slam Dunk! Michael Jordan’s #GameWorn, #Autographed Nike Air Jordan 1s sold in an online auction today for $560,000, setting a new world auction record for any pair of #sneakers – surpassing the previous auction record of $437,500 set at Sotheby’s in July 2019 by the Nike Waffle Racing Flat ‘Moon Shoe’. One of the most important basketball sneakers of all time made exclusively for the legendary NBA #ChicagoBulls player in 1985, the pair was sold to coincide with the final episode of the popular ESPN documentary ‘The Last Dance’, which spotlights the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan…”

 

Jordan is as soon as once more essentially the most well-known basketball participant on the earth following the discharge of “The Last Dance,” an ESPN documentary sequence. The 10-part sequence chronicle focuses on his profession and the way the Chicago Bulls chased their sixth NBA championship through the 1997-98 season. Each week, about 6 million viewers have tuned in to see the present.

The remaining two episodes air tonight.

— with inputs from Bloomberg

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