Monday, April 27, 2015

I have over 100 pairs of sneakers.. but all of them together don't cost as much as 1 pair Jordan wore..
By Danny B Sports

Owning a piece of history does not come cheap.
An anonymous buyer purchased Michael Jordan's earliest NBA game-worn shoes for $71,553 on Saturday, according to ESPN's Darren Rovell.   
Surprisingly, the shoes were not Air Jordans, but Air Ships. Jordan inked a five-year deal for $2.5 million with Nike in 1984, but the Air Jordan product was not ready for him to wear at each game. Thus Jordan wore alternate Air Ships in three colors.
Khalid Ali, a ball boy for the 1984-85 Los Angeles Lakers, was the first owner of the Air Ships, and told ESPN.com that he gave them to the auction house after they sat in his mother's closet. Ali had first asked Jordan for the red, black and white Air Jordans that he wore during warmups at the Great Western Forum. Jordan played the game in Air Ships and then signed them for Ali.  
The future of Air Jordans was threatened when, a month before Jordan was set to play games wearing the shoes, NBA deputy commissioner Russ Granik sent a letter to Nike in 1985 stating that the red-and-black Air Jordans he wore during warmups on Oct. 18 violated the league's uniform code. However, the NBA never banned the shoe brand.   
Of the sold shoes, the left is size 13 and the right is 13.5.

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