In July 2019, the game changed forever for sneakerheads and collectors. That was when Sotheby’s made headlines with its first ...

The company’s CEO and founder, Gerome Sapp, told the press that the shoes were acquired “in order to increase accessibility and empower the communities that birthed sneaker culture with the ...

They include Anthony Cook, D’Shawn Jamison, Holton Hill, John Bonney, Javion Green, Gerome Sapp, and Roderick Babers.

Babers and Sapp When told about the impromptu after-practice race, Rod Babers laughed. It reminded him of the days he and Gerome Sapp roamed the Lamar secondary in the late 1990s.

After buying them, Rares co-founder and former NFL safety Gerome Sapp said that his company believed it could profit off the Grammy Yeezys and that Sotheby’s was asking even more for them.

A pair of sneakers worn by Michael Jordan during the 1998 NBA Finals has sold for $2.2 million. The previous record was held by Nike shoes worn by Ye.

But according to Gerome Sapp, the chief executive of Rares, the fractional investment corporation that bought the Yeezy prototype in 2021 for $1.8 million — and that had intended to allow its ...

Rares, founded by Sapp in 2020, provides a platform for investors to buy and trade fractional shares of high-end sneakers. Gerome Sapp is a sneakerhead, and the former NFL player has created an ...

West wore them at the 2008 Grammys. The sneakers were acquired by Rares, a company owned by former NFL player Gerome Sapp.

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The rare sneaker then served as part of the launch strategy for Rares, a first-of-its-kind platform founded by former NFL player Gerome Sapp that has also made shares available for sneakers ...

Gerome Sapp played five seasons in the NFL. In 2017, he started pitching investors on Rares, a fractional ownership platform for sneakers. Rares will hold an "IPO" for a record-setting pair of ...