{"id":255177,"date":"2020-05-18T04:54:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T08:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=255177"},"modified":"2020-05-18T04:54:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T08:54:18","slug":"michael-jordan-game-worn-sneakers-set-record-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/05\/18\/michael-jordan-game-worn-sneakers-set-record-at-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jordan game-worn sneakers set record at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_255182\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-255182\" style=\"width: 414px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Michael_Jordan_in_2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-255182\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Michael_Jordan_in_2014.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Michael_Jordan_in_2014.jpg 414w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Michael_Jordan_in_2014-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-255182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Michael Jordan, former basketball star and majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, at the National Basketball Association&#8217;s board of governors meeting in New York, April 17, 2014. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=39252469\">Photo By DOD photo by D. Myles Cullen, Public Domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 NBA legend Michael Jordan&#8217;s game-worn Nike Air Jordan 1s from 1985 was sold for USD560,000 (PHP28 million) on Sunday, setting a new world auction record for a pair of sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>The sneakers, designed by Peter Moore, were sold by London-based auctioneers Sotheby\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan wore the Air Jordan 1 &#8212; one of the most iconic designs in the history of both streetwear and basketball &#8212; in 1984 and 1985, as well as modified versions in 1986, Sotheby\u2019s said on its official website.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring the Chicago colorway, &#8220;in 1984, Nike gave Michael Jordan his own signature line of shoes and clothes, which was pivotal in Michael agreeing to sign with Nike,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>The pair is in a size 13 (left shoe) and a 13.5 (right shoe).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA\u00a0\u2013 NBA legend Michael Jordan&#8217;s game-worn Nike Air Jordan 1s from 1985 was sold for USD560,000 (PHP28 million) on Sunday, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":255182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255183,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255177\/revisions\/255183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}