Michael Jordan shoes by year

Next thirty days, SCP Auctions will sell down a pair of Michael Jordan game-worn sneakers from his rookie season in 1984. But the interesting tale is truly how the current owner arrived to their particular possession.

In accordance with, Khalid Ali ended up being a 15-year-old ballboy for l . a . Lakers in 1984. That December, the Bulls stumbled on town.

Ali recalls asking Jordan during pre-game warmups if he might have the set of footwear he had been putting on. Jordan explained that people had been simply warm-up shoes, hence he would be switching into yet another set during online game.

As expected, Jordan turned into a pair of white-and-red basketball shoes. Those shoes would later be known as the first-line of Air Jordan shoes.

After the game, Ali found Jordan in locker room and asked for the footwear. Jordan complied, even autographing the pair.

Thirty years later on, Ali is placing all of them on the block. He says the choice to sell was not tough because he did not take into account the shoes all of that much. They are the only collectible he's from his many years as a ballboy - he never ever obtained any similar gifts from any of the Lakers players. For many years, Ali said the footwear only sat in his mother's closet, collecting dust.

a representative of SCP Auctions believes the footwear could bring over $50, 000 at auction. Another couple of Jordan shoes used during their rookie season sold for $31, 070 in 2013.

That exact same year, the footwear Jordan wore during his now-famous "Flu Game" marketed for an impressive $104, 765. Amazingly, those footwear had been also had by an old ballboy.