Editor’s note: This story was updated with the final sale price and other details after the auction.
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In 1998, Michael Jordan tied a couple of his iconic Air Jordan 13 by Air Jordan 13 to bring home a game duration of the bulls of his NBA final championship, and now they are the most expensive vendors in an auction.
The game’s winning shoes were sold for $ 2.2 million in Sotheby’s in New York On Tuesday, breaking the record of $ 1.47 million shoes, established in 2021 by a pair or Nike Air Ships that Jordan Ware previously in his career.
The sale comes “Jordan Year”: a reference to the iconic number 23 of the NBA star player. Sell for more than $ 32,000.
Last year, Jordan’s game 1, also from the 1998 finals, became the most demanding article of worn sports memories to sell at an auction when he obtained $ 10.1 million in a sale of Sotheby’s.
Jordan’s farewell career with the Chicago Bulls is known as “The Last Dance”, after the title of an ESPN and Netflix documentary that reported the season. Jordan announced his (second) retirement week before the finals, which led to the six games against Utah jazz becoming the best selling in the history of the NBA, based on Nielsen’s TV ratings. (Jordan would then return from 2001 to 2003 to play with the Washington Wizards, but did not win another championship).
“The sports memories used by the game Michael Jordan have demonstrated again and again to be the most elite and coveted items in the market,” said Brahm Wachter, head of street clothing and modern collectibles of Sotheby, in a press release before sale. “However, the articles of their ‘last dance’ season are or a larger scale and magnitude as seen with our record sale of his game of game 1 in 2022.”
The pair of shoes Sold on Tuesday They were in game 2, in Salt Lake City, which the Bulls won 93-88 after losing game 1, with Jordan scoring 37 points. They are the last pair of Air Jordan 13 of Black and Red Air Jordan that Jordan once leads to the court for an NBA game, a press release from Sotheby’s Nut.
After game 2, Jordan signed and gave the set of shoes spent to the ball boy in the visitor’s costumes, as it was known, according to Sotheby’s.
The Air Jordan 13 shoes starred in a sale of sports memories called “Victoriam”, which the articles presented are from athletes such as Tom Brady, Kobe Bryant and Roger Federer. Several other Jordan articles were included in the two -part auction, with a 1998 Bulls T -shirt used by the game and a couple or 1985 Air Jordan 1 obtaining $ 508,000 and $ 127,000 respectively.
Other upper lots included one of the shooting shirts of the Kobe Bryant Lakers, which were sold for more than $ 406,000, and a football shirt, used by the deceased Pelé in its debut for the New York Cosmos in 1975, which was sold around $ 177,000.
Upper image: The Air Jordan 13 signs signed by Michael Jordan.