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that's all I've ever seen them referenced as
I'll start callin them Chicagos but I bet people won't know what I'm talkin about...
No clue where the playoff moniker came from. I could live with the Chicago moniker as these are a colorway he would have worn during the regular season if he played in 93 to 94. Is it because he was spotted wearing these during a practice during the 93 playoffs? If so that is awful. I thought it was pretty much understood that a "playoff" colorway is primarily black with white accents.
Yes but that doesn't warrant a nickname. I feel like pinoe was trying to heard to appeal to his followers by saying 2pac 9s. Be yourself lol
I had called them that a few times to be funny lately tbh lol
One thing that kind of defeats that theory are the Nike Air 3s, 4s, and 5s.
No, because the Jumpman and Nike Air are glued on. The Jumpman on the 9s is literally molded in.
Not on the out sole where it says Nike
While that is true, they can simply just take the sole from the Air Revolution for the 3, Flight 89 for the 4, and I don't know if the Nike underneath the sole of the 5 is molded in or what.
I guess I should feel bad cause they're hurting for $$$
at "retooling", they could ready change the midsole just like they did in 2010. Powder Blue pair had the correct midsole and released the SAME YEAR as the rest of the 9s with the wrong midsole. Jb could change it with ease if they wanted to.
DOPE story broham....need more of these on NTTaking it back to the OG's for a minute...
Lot's of cats don't remember but when Mike initially retired, all the heat Jay's had immediately dropped...Around these parts cats moved on to Barkley's and Runner's...
See as a kid I was blessed to be able to get two pairs of sneakers a year, usually what was on clearance...Once for the start of the School Year, and once around Spring Break...
1994 Spring break hit, parents took me to the Footlocker on Trop and Mount Vista (Old school Vegas heads know)...Almost got these (Which were already on clearance), but ended up passing for a pair of the blacked out Air Force Max CB's, a great shoe in their own right...The main reason for the pass was because my parents were actually letting me purchase a pair of kicks that were full price and had just recently released...Few weeks later I ended up seeing an episode of Fresh Prince with big Will and Jazz rocking the IX's to Jazz's wedding...I immediately regretted my decision and no amount of begging would get the folks to bend on hooking it up with yet another pair of sneakers...Fast forward to the start of the '94 school year, school shopping time, wasn't sure what I was going to get but I was still hooked on the IX's...Much to my surprise, when I hit up ol' FTL again, they still had these in my size and marked down to $59.99! Parent's loved the price and I walked out with my fresh "Old" Jay's...Kid's clowned at school but I loved those things to death...
Somehow I've never actually purchased a pair of retro IX's...Usually something else is happening at drop time to pull the funds away...
Anyway to end cap the long story...
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Side note, honestly though, who remember's when the '02 pair dropped stores were dying the uppers black to try and move them? Might have just been a Vegas thing...I toyed with getting a pair around All Star weekend in 2002 but passed for the Adidas Kobe 2's...Closest I've ever come to actually getting the retro...Hopefully this year's release is good to me...
All J's sit out here..some get discounted eventually...only people really buying J's is us americans and a few Europeans who love American culture...Europe is running shoe country...
