After a signed Chicago Bulls basketball jersey is expecting to reach 500.000 dollars, a pair of Nike Air snickers the star used for an exhibition match were auctioned for 615.000! They reached this prize because on a dunk, he shattered the backboard. Read more below!
Trieste, Italy, 1985. The whole city is expecting one of the greatest exhibition sport performance they've hosted in over a decade. Michael Jordan, the Chicago Bull’s star is in town. During the match, he jumped and made two points by dunking the ball and breaking the board.
The English auctioning house even conserved a piece of glass in the sole of the shoe as an authenticity proof. The athleticism jump was so incredible and famous that Nike designed the Jordan’s logo like the shadow of him jumping.
The auction broke the former record for Jordan sneakers, sold the 17th of May 2020 in Sotheby’s for $560.000. An amount of the price will be donated for the NAACP(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) defense legal fund.