Jordans to be auctioned taken from: BBC News
For a pair of second-hand trainers to be expected to sell for somewhere in the region of $2 million to $4 million, they must be pretty special. Next week, a pair of Nike Air Jordan 13s worn by Michael Jordan in the second game of the NBA finals in 1998, a season informally known as "the last dance", are to be auctioned by Sotheby's and are the most valuable sneakers to ever appear on the market due to their importance to Michael himself.
"At the time [of the game] the Bulls thought that they were going to be disbanded as a team, they were aware that this was their last chance at winning an NBA championship together," Brahm Wachter, Sotheby's head of streetwear and modern collectables, tells BBC Culture. "The pair that we have is actually the only MeiGray photo-matched pair (MeiGray is the authenticator for the NBA) from any of the NBA finals that have ever appeared at auction.