Christmas miracles sometimes do happen. An Oregon shelter is auctioning off a pair of gold Air Jordan 3 sneakers commissioned by Spike Lee that they found in their donation bin. The kicker is the shoes are valued at more than $10,000.
A member of the transitional shelter program at the Burnside Shelter, operated by the Portland Rescue Mission, was sorting through donations when he came across the gold shoes at the bottom of a bin.
The designer of the Air Jordan 3 sneakers, Tinker Hatfield, stopped by the shelter to check out the shoes. He confirmed they were a custom pair of Air Jordan 3 shoes commissioned by Spike Lee to wear to the Academy Awards back in 2019.
Hatfield provided the shelter with a replacement box and a framed and signed design proof. The set is now being auctioned off by Sotheby’s, with 100 percent of the sale price going to the Portland Rescue Mission.
The sneakers are valued at more than $10,000 but are expected to fetch up to $20,000. It remains unclear as to how the shoes ended up in the donation bin in the first place.
Source: https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2023/emergence/nike-air-jordan-3-retro-spike-lee-oscars-with