Tag: Auctions

You played for three teams during the 2021 calendar year. Is moving your shoe collection one of the hardest parts about changing teams? PJ Tucker: That is definitely the toughest part of my life. I can move or switch teams any time if I have to and I’ll be fine. But moving my stuff?! Oh my God. It is an actual process. This year was the toughest because I had to go from Houston to Milwaukee to Miami. I just had so many things that didn’t make it with me on the trips from Houston to Milwaukee and then Milwaukee to Houston. There was just so much! It’s not easy to transport the stuff that I wear during games. My assistant had to fly down to Houston and ship boxes down to Miami that I knew I wanted to wear during games and also just off the court. It’s a process, man.

Do you have any perspective on where the sneaker market is headed in the next few years? PJ Tucker: It’s actually weird you ask that because I was literally just having that conversation right before this. It’s so hard to predict! I saw somewhere that tried to predict the annual growth of the sneaker market and it was astronomical numbers. It’s so hard to put a limit on it because with social media and how crazy the internet is, sneakers go viral so fast. When a new designer does something, it gets so much attention. More and more people get access and get all this stuff and to be able to see what’s coming, it’s so hard. I have no idea.

Going under the hammer in Geneva will be a pair of high-top Nike sneakers from the late NBA star Kobe Bryant, the Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard who died in a helicopter crash in California last year. The blue, white and gold Nike Air Zoom Huarache 2K4 basketball shoes are expected to fetch up to 35,000 Swiss francs (about $38,000) during a Nov. 11 sale at Sotheby’s. Bryant wore the sneakers in a March 17, 2004, victory over the L.A. Clippers, according to the auction house.