A pair of Michael Jordan’s game-worn sneakers offered for $615,000, Christie’s public sale home stated Thursday, shattering a record set just months ago by the sale of another pair of the basketball legend’s shoes. The sneakers had been a pair of Air Jordan 1 Highs that the NBA megastar wore throughout a 1985 exhibition match in Italy when he dunked the ball so laborious it shattered the glass backboard. “That is the unique shoe with an precise piece of the backboard, a chunk of glass, within the sole of the shoe,” stated Caitlin Donovan, head of purse and sneaker gross sales at Christie’s — which organized the public sale with Stadium Items.
Jordan racked up 30 factors whereas carrying the dimensions 13.5 footwear, that are within the purple and black colours of his Chicago Bulls group.
Although the sale broke the file set in Could when a pair of Air Jordan 1’s offered for $560,000, the brand new public sale landed beneath the estimated vary of $650,000 and $850,000.
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The file setting gross sales spotlight the hovering market worth of objects recognized with the retired basketball celebrity for the reason that release of “The Last Dance,” an ESPN/Netflix documentary that chronicles the saga of Jordan and his Chicago Bulls.
It additionally confirms that the lowly sneaker now has a spot of satisfaction on this planet of rich collectors alongside extra conventional collectibles.
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