Ex-Jazz ball boy selling Jordan’s shoes from legendary ‘Flu Game’

Posted Nov 12, 2013
If it wasn’t the shoes, it might have been the applesauce. For 15 years, a safe-deposit box in a Davis County bank has housed a pair of size 13’s that could put a dent in the national debt. Yet all it took for Preston Truman to earn the sneakers Michael Jordan wore during his legendary "flu game" was a little courage and some applesauce cups. (Salt Lake Tribune)

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