AFTER THE AIR JORDAN

[Art Barr]

hey joe,...

let's break down the shoe game and why other than nike.
there have only been two actual players who made it pop for themselves out of the realm of the jumper or j after the air jordan stole the show completely.



alright in history after the air jordan.
there have only been two players who really literally had the hood and shoe game on fiyah:


GRANT HILL : FILA

AI : REEBOK

let's as a community provide why these things popped...

 

[DatNkkaCutty]

....I think Penny's foams have surpassed GH Filas...IMO

 

[Art Barr]

GRANT HILL : FILA

GRANT HIll


-best rampup player in nba history from the college to the draft and first nba tipoff
-best player in the league as a rookie when mike retired
-fit into the mythos of the next best player would emulate a air jordan running mate and elongate the mythos of jordan at pg, and pippen playing pg and the evolution of the wing forward
-best dribble drive active player since mj's retirement
-best mid range player
-best team general with no discernible player experience on the pro level
-highest actualized and pedigreed college player at his position and the best actualized high iq player from a high iq actualized program
-evolution of the mythos of north carolina wing player from mj
-talking point intrastate rivalry with the north carolina mj's alma mater
-lack of actualized unc wing's after mike excluding the other fila signee in stackhouse, pre vince is a starter at unc days
-shoes took cosmetics from the iconic jordan nine, and the last jordan done right, before the jordan ten sucked ass.
-long run and restock of the original og colorway and multiple appealing colorways away from the pistons color scheme
-emulated mj's endoresement deals with micky d's. as micky d's helped further the mj owns his likeness era. that featured the first controversial mj back to school folder where the nba asserted to have the nba bulls logo and mj's iconic 23 removed and then the folder was reprinted with mike in a generic jersey and the number 25, like benji at simeon.
-mickey d's remade the grant hill back to school folder. which was important because grant hill copied the steps that made the jordan brand likeness, and number 23 iconic as well as the word air.


art barr

 

[qnsfinest]

....I think Penny's foams have surpassed GH Filas...IMO

These foams and every other penny's shyts all over Hills Filas and damn near 90% of any players signature shoe

 

[Art Barr]

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....I think Penny's foams have surpassed GH Filas...IMO

i said people who were not at nike, breh..

everyone at nike lives off of mj. i am doing this to see how another company could do it by asking others for their insight and ideas and facts about how the other two who really did it, without nike.


art barr

 

[The Fukin Prophecy]

Penny foamposite 1s >>>>>>>>>>> Hill and AI

 

[Art Barr]

What part of why other than nike do nikkaz not understand.


art barr

 

[The God Poster]

....I think Penny's foams have surpassed GH Filas...IMO

 

[Captain Crunch]

Them AI Air Force 1's were flames

 

[The God Poster]

what part of why other than nike do nikkaz not understand.


art barr

nikkas refuse to read​

 

[I.AM.PIFF]

best player in the league as a rookie when mike retired

Better than Hakeem, Shaq, Robinson, Pippern, Penny, Malone, Barkley, Ewing, Drexler and em?

 

[Buggsy Mogues]

The Grant Hill II was the only one that was really poppin like that. Everyone had those, but it was a wrap after that.

Shawn Kemp's reeboks were hot. Low key I think these were more popular than Shaq's reeboks. At least from what I remember.

 

[The Fire]

just wait for them BBB air Lonzo 1's to drop 0 losses

 

[Art Barr]

hey joe,...

let's break down the shoe game and why other than nike.
meaning no nike endorsee's,....
as all nike endorsee eat off of jordan from anyone to agassi, to bo to now.


AI : REEBOK

let's as a community provide why these things popped...

- played for the goat black basketball coach and highest iq big man pedigreed teacher in john thompson
- john thompson, listened and took a meeting from ai's mom to save ai and he complied.
- changed georgetown's iconic low post center pedigree full iq attack to a perimeter based back court system for ai
- was at nike's original hood tastemaker streetwear aesthetics college georgetown
- wore the iconic jordan xi at georgetown in the iconic hoya colorway
- did not play above the rim, but was dribble drive demon. so it was a stark contrast from jordan's game that would personify and make him air jordan. yet, ai was the answer if you were not gifted with the leaping and hang time ability of air jordan's top tier genetics
- could dunk and was undersized
- he always got up from a car wreck like mike. while being nowhere near the physical specimen
- had a movie that kinda shadowed what his life was like in above the rim. even if they say it was not tailored or about ai.
- was a leader who was shunned because of his past
- was a polar difference but embodiment of the issues created by the prison industrial economy complex
- was the heir apparent at the pg, but forced to play sg, after averaging 8 assists a game as a rookie
- rookie of the year
- very good on court as a stealer leader. he was not glove one on one but was a leader in steals like mj
- reebok went in house to their pump slash michael change tennis cushioning styleshoe for basketball giving it a different look for a sig shoe.
- had an iconic runner style toe box instead of the typical basketball shoe toe box.
- featured a play on the nike air bubble system just reebok's little fanfare style that was aesthetically pleasing but not far out the box


add on



art barr

 

[eXodus]

The Grant Hill II was the only one that was really poppin like that. Everyone had those, but it was a wrap after that.

Shawn Kemp's reeboks were hot. Low key I think these were more popular than Shaq's reeboks. At least from what I remember.

Yea the kamikaze 1 and 2 was dope

Shaqnosis will a slick design as well.. not sure how they did commercially though