A pair of tennis shoes (sports shoes) worn by Michael Jordan at the meeting of the famous season The last danceIn 1998, it was sold for $2.2 million at an online auction, Sotheby’s announced.

It is about the Air Jordan 13, which the basketball star wore in the second game of the 1998 NBA finals of the famous “Last Dance” season, reports the auction house, which ensures that it is one of “highlights from his illustrious career and his final year with the Chicago Bulls“.

The sale highlighted the award-winning player’s appeal to collectors and investors around the world. Last September, Sotheby’s sold the jersey Jordan wore in Game 1 of that 1998 Finals for $10.1 million. setting a world record for any sports item used in a match.

Until then, the record was held by the jersey of the captain of the Argentine team Diego Maradona at the 1986 World Cup, for which a few months earlier, in May 2022, $9.3 million was paid, followed by another prize of basketball legend Kobe Bryant for $5.8 million dollars last February.

Jordan wore these black sneakers with red motifs in the second half of the historic finals of the season that established him as the best basketball player of all time. and which went down in history as “The Last Dance”, mostly thanks to the hit documentary of the same name by ESPN and Netflix.

Released in 2020, it chronicled Jordan’s Chicago Bulls’ efforts to win their sixth NBA title in the 1997-1998 season.

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For the auction house, it is “perhaps the most beloved period of Jordanian folklore”, since it reached “the height of his popularity and power while overcoming major internal divisions that fractured the team dynamics of the Chicago Bulls in the late 1990s″. (AND)