{"id":118017,"date":"2023-04-13T12:05:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T10:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test2023.luxus-plus.com\/luxus-magazine-michael-jordan-sneakers-sold-for-a-record-2-2-million\/"},"modified":"2023-08-26T00:29:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T22:29:35","slug":"luxus-magazine-michael-jordan-sneakers-sold-for-a-record-2-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/luxus-magazine-michael-jordan-sneakers-sold-for-a-record-2-2-million\/","title":{"rendered":"[Luxus+ Magazine] Michael Jordan sneakers sold for a record $2.2 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>At an auction held Tuesday by Sotheby&#8217;s, a pair of sneakers worn by Chicago Bulls star Michael Jordan in his final NBA finals in 1998 became the most expensive pair of sneakers in history.<\/h4>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These are the &#8220;most expensive sneakers ever sold&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The auction company <strong>Sotheby&#8217;s<\/strong> announced that on Tuesday, <strong>April 11<\/strong>, a pair of sneakers worn by NBA legend <strong>Michael Jordan<\/strong> during his last championship final in 1998 with the Chicago Bulls was sold for a record <strong>$2.2 million<\/strong> (equivalent to 2 million euros). Sotheby&#8217;s had initially estimated the value of the shoes between <strong>2 and 4 million dollars.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At this price, the former <strong>Bulls<\/strong> superstar confirms his status as the auction king for collectible sportswear, breaking his own record for sneakers ($1.4 million in 2021). He also holds the record for <strong>the most expensive jersey<\/strong> ($10.1 million in September 2022), with the sale of one of those he also wore during his last NBA title win in <strong>1998<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Only one bid was submitted for the <strong>Bred (Black and Red) Air Jordan XIII<\/strong> sneakers, which were on sale online since <strong>April 3<\/strong> for $1.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Lucky ball boy<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These sneakers signed by Michael Jordan are emblematic of the last final won by the Chicago franchise against the Utah Jazz in 1998. The basketball star wore them in Game 2 in Salt Lake City, where the Bulls won <strong>93-88<\/strong> thanks to his <strong>37 points.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14659\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/gettyimages-1146871273.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/michael-jordan-sneakers-sold-for-a-record-2-2-million\/?lang=en\">here<\/a> to read the full article on Luxus Plus Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Featured photo : \u00a9 Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At an auction held Tuesday by Sotheby&#8217;s, a pair of sneakers worn by Chicago Bulls star Michael Jordan in his final NBA finals in 1998 became the most expensive pair of sneakers in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"%%post_title%% %%sep%% %%sitetitle%%","_seopress_titles_desc":"At a Sotheby&#039;s auction, a pair of sneakers worn by Chicago Bulls star Michael Jordan became the most expensive pair ever sold in the history of sports shoes.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22420],"tags":[22571],"class_list":["post-118017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle-fr","tag-luxus-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}