Up for auction next month at Sotheby’s is a set of Michael Jordan’s Air Jordans from each of his six NBA championships, which might bring in as much as $10 million.

The full lineup, called “The Dynasty Collection,” includes the following Air Jordan models: VI (1991), VII (1992), VIII (1993), XI (1996), XII (1997), and XIV (1998).

What Sotheby’s calls “the most valuable and significant collection of Air Jordan sneakers ever brought to market” has garnered widespread acclaim.

The “Mona Lisa of the sneaker collecting and sports memorabilia communities,” according to Head of Modern Collectables Brahm Wachter, who spoke with DailyMail.com about the collection.

 

The Bulls’ director of public and media relations, Tim Hallam, received a pair of Jordan sneakers after the final game of each of the team’s six 1990s NBA championships, as part of an intriguing arrangement that has been widely documented.The Bulls had never advanced past the first round of the NBA Finals before Jordan faced Magic Johnson and the Los Angeles Lakers in 1991. In spite of dropping Game 1 at home, the Bulls rallied to win games two, three, and five in a row.

A year after that, the defending champs, the Bulls, faced Clyde Drexler and the Trail Blazers on the basketball world’s largest stage. Sports Illustrated had previously said on the cover of its May 11, 1992 issue that Drexler was Jordan’s “No. 1 rival” one month earlier.The Bulls won the Larry O’Brien Trophy for the second year in a row following six meetings, despite a tie in the series’ opening four games.

With a total of 33 points, 8 boards, and 7 assists in Game 6, Jordan and his teammates upset the Phoenix Suns in a six-game series in 1993. Barkley had been named the MVP of the 1992–93 season.After losing to Gary Payton’s Supersonics in 1997 and John Stockton’s Jazz twice in 1997 and 1998, Jordan and the Bulls continued their winning streak.

The ‘Jordan Brand,’ a collaboration between Jordan and Nike that helped establish Nike as the largest sneaker company in the world and marked the beginning of a lucrative era of partnerships between athletes and sneaker companies, was perhaps even more influential off the court than his basketball accomplishments. By using his partnership with Nike, Michael Jordan was able to become the first NBA player to reach a net worth of $1 billiоn.

More than ten times the $275 million he spent for the Charlotte Hornets in 2006, Jordan sold the majority of his shares for almost $3 billiоn last year. In June, the classic ‘Flu Game’ sneakers, the Air Jordan XII, fetched $1.38 million.

The most expensive game-worn sports memorabilia ever sold at auction in September 2022 was Michael Jordan’s Bulls jersey from Game 1 of the 1998 NBA Finals, which fetched $10.09 million, more than twice its estimate.