CHUMLEE: What you got here?
I've got a pair of LeBron autographed shoes.
That's pretty cool.
JIM: These are actually the wheat edition ones.
There the 2004 All-Star game ones,
and they're a limited edition.
I've never actually seen these in person,
but they might be worth more without the signature than
with it. - I don't know about that--
CHUMLEE: No, I'm just joking.
JIM: The shoes are LeBron James 2004 All-Star game shoes.
They're personally mine, but I had them autographed.
The reason I'm selling these shoes
is because I've had them for 10 years,
and I'm hoping I can get a lot of money for them.
They're a rare shoe itself.
The autograph's rare, and I think
LeBron statistically will go down as the number
one player in NBA history.
CHUMLEE: This is pretty cool, man.
These are the Air Nike Zoom's.
How'd you get them?
Back in 2004 when I was a kid I was at one of the Cavs games.
I saw him coming, didn't have anything to sign,
so I took them right off my feet, tossed it to him.
He signed them and tossed them right back.
CHUMLEE: Sweet.
This is LeBron's first shoe.
They were actually afraid to attach the name "LeBron"
to it at first because they didn't know
how they were going to sell.
They didn't know how he was going to do in the NBA.
But Nike decided to give him $90 million
before he even played one minute of NBA basketball.
18-years-old-- I cannot imagine that.
It paid off for him though.
LeBron pushed into the draft right
after his junior year of high school,
but the NBA decided he was too young.
Lucky for his teammates though, because tickets
to his high school basketball games were being
scalped for over $100 each.
So what do you want to do with them?
I'm looking to sell them.
OK, how much did you want to get for them?
I'm looking for about $1,000.
$1,000, OK.
The condition of the shoe looks pretty good.
Looks like the autograph is upside down.
I don't know how that's going to affect the value.
If you have a little out of hang out,
I'm going to call a friend of mine.
He basically will look at this autograph, tell me if it's real
and how much he thinks it's worth.
Yeah, I can hang around.
All right, let me go make a phone call.
I'm excited that the expert's coming in.
Hopefully, he can appraise it to something
higher than I expect it to be.
And I'm excited to see what he has to say.
Now, I know a lot about shoes, but I don't know
very much about autographs.
So I called my buddy Steven to come take a look at it.
We got one of the greatest player in the world shoes here.
These are his rookie shoes. STEVE GRAD: Oh, cool.
And he only signed one of the shoes.
It's right there.
STEVE GRAD: OK.
Meeting LeBron in person is not that easy
and getting near him for autograph seekers especially
or people just wanting a picture--
it's not really that easy to get near this guy.
So Chum, tell me your concerns.
Well, I don't know if it's real.
And how much is it actually worth on his shoe?
Because this obviously wasn't LeBron James' shoe?
STEVE GRAD: OK.
Now obviously, I was look at the exemplars.
The first thing starts off here, and we kind of
see the same thing here.
And he just kind of goes into this big mess here,
and it looks like he came off it strangely
or just signed it abruptly.
Another example of his signature-- once again,
he starts off here as almost a 2 3.
You see here? - Yeah.
This is a little sloppier, and then he kind of
finishes the flourish off here.
It matches up pretty good to the exemplars.
It's a little sloppier version.
I really don't have a problem with the signature though.
And you think it's OK upside down?
LeBron James-- super tough autograph.
So upside down on a shoe, especially
a rare shoe like this--
I don't think it really matters.
Cool.
So how much is it worth?
Well, based on everything here,
I'd put the value of this right at about $350 to $400.
All right, well, thank you.
STEVE GRAD: Good seeing you, bro.
Take care. JIM: You too.
Just based on the fact that LeBron so popular,
people really like that guy.
And the chances of you getting his signature are pretty low,
and I think that thing would fly off the shelf.
So we're looking at about $200.
I think with the combination of the rare shoe
and the rare signature I think it's just too low of an offer.
Unfortunately, the rare shoe and the signature
aren't going to sell to the same customer.
I can go up to maybe $250.
JIM: That's not enough.
What's your bottom number?
JIM: I'd say about $600.
CHUMLEE: It's not going to happen.
All right.
Thanks for bringing them down though, man.
They're really cool.
LeBron James is a great player, and it's not often
you get to see these shoes.
JIM: Thank you.
The offer of $200 is definitely disappointing to me.
I'm going to take this shoe back to Cleveland
and just hold onto it for a couple of more years
until LeBron wins the championship in Cleveland,
brings it home.
And then I'll see what it's worth then.