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BasketballA pair of basketball sold 2 million!
Need it be said that the shoes were worn by Michael Jordan during his last championship final in 1998 with the Chicago Bulls?
Michael Jordan still has a big rating!
AFP
A pair of sneakers worn by NBA legend Michael Jordan during his last championship final in 1998 with the Chicago Bulls was sold on Tuesday in New York for the record sum of 2.2 million dollars (1.98 million euros). francs), announced the auction company Sotheby’s.
They are the “most expensive sports shoes ever sold,” according to a statement from the auction house. At this price, the former Bulls superstar confirms his status as the king of auctions for collectible sportswear, beating his own record for sneakers ($ 1.4 million in 2021), while he already holds that of the most expensive jersey ($10.1 million in September 2022).
These Bred (for “Black and Red”) Air Jordan XIII are emblematic of the last final won by the Chicago franchise with Michael Jordan, in 1998, against the Utah Jazz.
The player had worn them during the 2nd match of the final, on the Salt Lake City floor, an episode recounted in the hit documentary “The Last Dance”, released in 2020 on Netflix and ESPN. Despite stands largely acquired at the Jazz, the Bulls had won 93-88, thanks to 37 points from Jordan.
A ball boy
Sotheby’s had placed the estimate higher, between 2 and 4 million dollars. According to the auction house, Michael Jordan had offered the pair after the meeting to a ballboy, but the latter was no longer the owner at the time of the sale. Sotheby’s did not immediately release any information about the seller or the buyer.
(AFP)
