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Did you have the original 1990 pair or the 2000 retro, and if you did, did your pair have the 23 numbering and Jumpman on the heel ?Lol what? Metallic 5 did have the 23 on side but those were samples/pe only. The only major difference was that there was no Nike air.
If by 2007 you were still expecting Nike Air, I'm sorry to say this but you set yourself up for disappointment.
When they retro in 2007 I love them because they resembled the samples/pe
Outside of maybe...Ahmad Rashad, Spike Lee, or Kadeem Hardison...I'm pretty sure the general public was not able to acquire that sample or pe you covet so much.
If it wasn't for the internet and almost 26 years later, you probably wouldn't even know about the PE/Sample.
I know what i bought and wore in 1990 and in 2000, and neither of them looked like the 2007 retro.
Now as far as the Nike air, i wasn't disappointed at all !
I grew up during Nikes golden era, I got my first pair of jordans in 88, and i stopped buying jordans after i graduated in 2000.
I had the originals, so i didn't feel like i was missing out on anything in the 2000's.
I started buying jordan's again in 2011 when the white cement 3's retro'ed.
The Nike air truly means nothing to me, because whatever retro 3, 4, 5, they re-release , if it has JORDAN on the sole instead of Nike...it's still not in it's original form.
I was fortunate to get a pair of the retro 3 88', but i didn't keep them.
The elephant print on the toe box was too wide for my liking, i compared them to my 2011 retro, and i preferred the smaller less wider elephant print pair. So i sold my 88's and kept my 2011 retro.
I'm not lusting over jordan's because of the Nike air...i been there and done that in the 90's !
I'm only buying what I like...and i could care less about them 2007 black metallic 5 retros.
They don't mean anything to me...and they never will.