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Doesn’t that make your point moot then?
Nope. I'm a basketball junkie and nerd. I buy more than just Jordans, and I can tell you the facts about everything in my closet cause I like the history of it just as much as how it looks. None of us ON NT are the average sneaker consumer. I spend hours on ebay looking for OG Nike tracksuits and Jordan tracksuits to go with my retros. I love old stuff and I love basketball and the late 80's-90's made the best sneakers.
My point was kids aren't buying Jordans because of Michael Jordan. They buy Jordans because of that's what they're told is the "cool" it shoe same way they flocked to dunks, or sambas, or Asics or w/e flavor of the month shoe there is.
In almost every Jordan retro thread up here you have members giving full stories about the first time they saw the shoe as a kid, stories about their parents or loved one taking them to the mall or footlocker to get it, or on the flipside not being able to purchase it as a child and can now. Nothing about reselling the shoe or how much you can flip it for, just pure nostalgia.
Speaking for me personally I don't have those same feelings when I see a Jordan retro come back, I didn't see Mike play, I wasn't around for those Chicago Bulls teams I don't have that connection to the shoes no matter how much I like them. ON the flipside when the Lebron 8 South Beaches, Lebron 9 Big Bangs, KD IV's retro'd it finally clicked about how anal and important it was for the retro's to be like the OG's I used to always see Older NT members complain about with Jordan retros. Those were the shoes of my childhood I loved and wanted so badly that took me back to feeling like I was in high school again it made sense.
Idk maybe I'm wrong and we'll see..I just don't see this generation having any actual tie to the sneakers outside of the price they resell for on stockx. I teach high school and I wear sneakers to work almost every day. Most common question I get, "What's your most expensive sneaker".
Not your favorite, not the oldest, not the one that got you into collecting. The most expensive.