The footwear Michael Jordan wore throughout the well-known “flu recreation” within the 1997 NBA Finals just lately offered for a whopping worth of $1.38 million at Goldin Public sale.
The footwear beforehand offered for $104,000 again in 2013.Â
The “flu recreation” has turn out to be one of many signature performances of Jordan’s legendary profession as he dropped 38 factors on the Utah Jazz in a 90-88 Bulls Recreation 5 win to take a 3-2 lead within the sequence. They might win the sequence one recreation later.Â
It was reported on the time that Jordan was coping with flu-like signs that left him severely dehydrated throughout the recreation. It was revealed years later that Jordan was really coping with meals poisoning and never the flu.Â
The footwear have been initially gifted to Jazz ballboy Preston Thomas after the sport, with Thomas later promoting the footwear in 2013.Â
They have been photomatched and got here with a letter of authenticity from Thomas and an image of Jordan signing the footwear after the sport. Thomas initially acquired the footwear as a present from Jordan after he remembered that Thomas had been capable of get him a snack of applesauce and graham crackers earlier than a recreation earlier that season, with Thomas once more offering the identical snack throughout the 1997 NBA Finals recreation.Â
As spectacular because the $1.38 million sale worth is, they’re nonetheless not the most costly Jordan footwear to ever promote at public sale.Â
Again in April the footwear he wore throughout Recreation 2 of his ultimate NBA championship sequence offered for greater than $2.2 million at public sale.Â
