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Michael Jordan’s backboard-shattering sneakers sell for $615,000

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This set of game-worn sneakers took flight with Air Jordan as he smashed a backboard in Italy

Michael Jordan is not only a lock for the greatest basketball player of all time, he’s one of the most globally influential sports figures in history. His fabled career is peppered with storybook moments so perfect that you’d think they were cheesy fiction if you hadn’t seen them happening in the moment.

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Another set of Air Jordan sneakers sell for $475k, record could hit $850k

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Michael Jordan has sold the two most valuable pairs of sneakers (indeed, ANY footwear) in history in the last three months and seems likely to own the top four prices ever inside the next two weeks.

Michael Jordan was unquestionably a once in a lifetime athlete. His outrageous gravity-defying achievements on the basketball court helped him rewrite the rules of athletic merchandise and now he is creating his own new reality on the auction block.

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Robotic Basketball Hoop v2

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A few weeks ago, [Shane Wighton] created a basketball backboard which made it impossible to miss a shot even remotely close to the hoop. As a passive device, though, the backboard had its limits. Shots with tremendous velocity wouldn’t go in, and (like most backboards) it was missing facial recognition …read more

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A Basketball Hoop That Never Lets You Brick

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With none of the major leagues in any team sport currently meeting, sports fans have a huge void that has to be filled with something. For [Shane Wighton], the machine shop is the place to go when sports let you down, and the result is this basketball backboard that lets …read more

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The Internet of Three-Pointers

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When tossing something into the rubbish bin, do you ever concoct that momentary mental scenario where you’re on a basketball court charging the net — the game’s final seconds ticking down on the clock — making a desperate stretch and flicking some crumpled paper perfectly into the basket only for no one to notice your awesome skills? Well, now you can show off how good you are at throwing out garbage.

Well, not strictly garbage. The genesis of this IoT basketball hoop was in fact an inflatable ball on [Brandon Rice]’s desk that he felt would be more fun to …read more

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