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Air Jordan is a line of sportswear shoes produced by Nike, Inc. Related apparel and accessories are marketed under Jordan Brand. The first Air Jordan shoe was produced for basketball player Michael Jordan during his time with the Chicago Bulls on November 17, 1984, and released to the public on April 1, 1985.
The shoes get their name from the documentary miniseries The Last Dance, which focuses chiefly on Jordan and the 1997–98 NBA season. The shoes were sold by Truman in 2020 for US$215,000. The shoes were later auctioned by the buyer in April 2023 for US$2.238 million, which was the highest sale price ever realized for any shoes.
In 2012 Jordan sued Qiaodan Sports for using the Jumpman logo to sell their products and even selling the shoes under his name because the name of the company in Mandarin is Jordan. This misled customers to believing that they were buying products from Jordan himself, but in all reality it was not his shoe.
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The sale price of the shoes was a record price for game worn shoes at the time. [5] On June 14, 2023, the shoes were auctioned for a second time, this time on the auction site Goldin. [1] The bidding was started at US$500,000; after two weeks on the auction site, the price exceeded US$1,000,000. [2] The shoes eventually realized a sale price of ...
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Like most of Jordan's shoes, the sneakers were mismatched: the left pair was a U.S size 13 while the right pair was a size 13.5. [ 55 ] [ 56 ] Geller acquired the sneakers in 2012 via an eBay auction, [ 57 ] [ 58 ] and referred to them as the "crown jewel" of the ShoeZeum. [ 59 ]