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Classic, old reliable, and recently retroed. The Air Jordan 12 ‘Flu Game’ might be an immortal shoe. That signature black and red is a legend in the shoe game, and hits close to home for a lot of sneaker fans. Let’s take a look.
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Key Facts at a Glance
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Detail |
Info |
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Model |
Air Jordan 12 Retro ‘Flu Game’ (2025) |
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Style Code |
CT8013-002 |
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Colorway |
Black/Varsity Red |
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Designer |
Tinker Hatfield |
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Release Date |
March 1, 2025 |
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Retail Price |
$210 men’s, full family sizing |
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Current Resale |
$204 lowest ask, $226 last sale, $231 three-month average (StockX, Oct. 13, 2026) |
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Game-Worn Pair |
Sold for $1.38 million in 2023 |
Where Can You Buy the Air Jordan 12 ‘Flu Game’ (2025)?
Resale, and the asks are sitting under retail while buyers keep paying over it. StockX is the first stop.
That gap runs across 820 sales in three months, with prices between $168 and $569 by size. Grade school pairs ask $106 against a $150 retail, and the Reverse Flu Game sits lower still.
What Makes the ‘Flu Game’ 12 Stand Out?
It was the first Jordan with full-length Zoom Air, wrapped in a design that borrowed from dress shoes and a national flag.
Tinker Hatfield pulled the radiating stitched panels from the Japanese flag and set a lizard-textured red mudguard against smooth black leather. A carbon fiber shank sits underneath, and the heel tab reads QUALITY INSPIRED BY THE GREATEST PLAYER EVER.
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Why Did the Original Pair Sell for $1.38 Million?
Game-worn provenance plus one of the most retold performances in NBA history made them a collector’s benchmark.
Jordan signed the shoes after Game 5 and gave them to Jazz ball boy Preston Truman, who had been bringing him applesauce before games in Utah. Truman held them 15 years before Grey Flannel Auctions sold them for $104,765 in 2013, a record for game-worn shoes at the time. Goldin moved the same pair for $1.38 million in June 2023.
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Should You Buy the Air Jordan 12 ‘Flu Game’ (2025)?
Yes, at the ask and not a dollar more. This one comes back often enough that overpaying makes no sense.
The 2025 edition was the fifth retail run for the colorway and the first traditional retro since 2016. The 2009 version swapped leather for a velvety upper with flu-themed graphics, so the straight reissues are the ones that keep returning.
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This story was originally published October 13, 2026 at 8:46 PM.