These sneakers date back to Jordan's very first NBA season, years before "Air Jordan" became a billion-dollar brand — a snapshot of a legend before anyone knew how big the legend would get.
The October 2021 sale set the game-worn sneaker record at the time and rode the same wave of sports-memorabilia mania that saw trading cards and jerseys shatter records that same year — proof that any object touched by Jordan had become its own asset class.
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