Secretly I threw my brother’s old shoes out while Michael Jordan’s old shoes went for $1.5million.

This is a tale of two pairs of shoes. One pair belong to my brother Drew. He lives some 25 miles outside New York City and when he last stayed with me (pre-Covid) he decided to leave the rather dodgy brown beasts behind as it would stop him having to fly them 3,000 miles back and forth.

A couple of years passed and with there being no sign of travel being allowed and with me making dramatic changes to the house I threw the shoes out.

It wasn’t an accident. I didn’t like the shoes and in any event he would never know.

The other pair of shoes in this story was worn by the NBA superstar Michael Jordan. They were size 13s and Jordan had autographed them and given them to a ballboy after a Denver Nuggets game in 1984.
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The ballboy didn’t throw them out and they have just been sold at Sotheby’s for, wait for it, $1.5million. Yes I did say $1.5million for a pair of shoes 37 years old.

My personal shoe saga did not end well. My brother came over a couple of weeks back.

All was going well until he asked where his old shoes were. I had a choice. Start looking and then say somebody must have moved them.

Or tell the truth. Unusually I took the last option. He got quite irritable which was surprising since those shoes wouldn’t have raised 20p at action.

I was reflecting on how much more sense the ballboy at the Denver Nuggets game had. Supposing he had decided to clear the house and throw out the shoes.

Today he would be $1.5million worse off.
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