Basketball icon Michael Jordan continues to achieve record numbers long after his active career.
Six shoes that Jordan wore in the 1990s were auctioned off on Friday for eight million dollars (around 7.4 million euros). As the auction house Sotheby’s announced, this is the highest amount ever paid for sports shoes there and the second highest that Jordan’s sporting goods collectibles had ever achieved.
The expensive items are six different shoes that Jordan gave to former Chicago Bulls communications manager Tim Hallam after each of the decisive Finals games in which the Bulls won a total of six NBA championships from 1991 to 1993 and from 1996 to 1998. It is not known who bought the shoes.
This isn’t the first time Jordan’s footwear has been worth millions to a collector. Just last April, Sotheby’s auctioned off a pair of shoes that Jordan wore in his last championship final with the Chicago Bulls in 1998 for $2.2 million.
The record for the most expensive jersey sold at auction in history is also held by “Air” Jordan. A jersey that he wore in the 1998 NBA finals went under the hammer in September 2022 for $10.1 million, making it $800,000 more expensive than the jersey worn by Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona in the quarterfinals against England the 1986 World Cup.