NY. A pair of shoes that Michael Jordan wore in a match of the famous season “The Last Dance” in 1998, was sold for $2.2 million in an online auction, a record for this type of sporting goods, announced Tuesday the Sotheby’s auction house.
These are the Air Jordan 13 of the basketball star that he wore in the second game of the 1998 NBA Finals of the famous season of “The Last Dance”, reports the auction house, which ensures that it is one of the “most significant items from his celebrated career and his final year with the Chicago Bulls.”
The sale has highlighted the appeal of the award-winning player to collectors. Last September, Sotheby’s sold a jersey the player wore in Game 1 of the 1998 NBA Finals for $10.1 million, setting a world record for any sporting item worn in a game.
Jordan wore the shoe during the season that established him as the greatest basketball player of all time and has gone down in history as “The Last Dance,” largely due to the hit ESPN and Netflix documentary of the same name. Released in 2020, it chronicled the efforts of Jordan’s Chicago Bulls in that season in which he won his sixth NBA title in eight seasons.
The sale, which had been open since April 3, coincides with the premiere of the film “Air”, which chronicles Nike’s rise in the field of sports shoes through its association with Michael Jordan in the mid-1980s. and the genesis of the famous Air Jordan sneakers.
