Michael Jordan's Sneakers Sell For Record-Breaking $615,000

By: Sports Desk | Published: August 14, 2020 7:14:00 pm

A pair of sneakers worn by basketball legend Michael Jordan was sold for $615,000 at Christie's auction house. (Source: flickr.com)A pair of sneakers worn by basketball legend Michael Jordan was sold for $615,000 at Christie’s auction house, shattering the previous record set in May. The sneakers that were up for auction was Air Jordan 1 Highs, which the NBA star had used during an exhibition match in Italy in 1985. He had then dunked the ball so hard that it shattered the glass backboard.

“This is the original shoe with an actual piece of the backboard, a piece of glass, in the sole of the shoe,” Caitlin Donovan, head of handbag and sneaker sales at Christie’s, was quoted as saying in an AFP report.

Jordan had scored a total of 30 points while wearing the size 13.5 shoes, which are in the red and black colors of his Chicago Bulls team.