yea he isn't relevant. you think just cause he has a new shoe made for him and lil penny gets 2 kicks, that he's relevant?
allen iverson had a new pair of shoes this year too, i'm sure he's very relevant. shawn kemp? his shoe retroed also. it's not about if they get shoe releases or not, its how they do in the market.
I would really like to see, how many pairs in total were produced of the whole Penny line in the last 6 years and how many pairs of shoes were sold of other Nike Signature players. We all know that Penny was not number 1 in all those years sales wise, otherwise we would have read it online or in the paper, but his sales numbers must be up there in the top 5 to top 7 otherwise I can not imagine Nike remaking so many of his shoes.
They have retroed all Penny II OG colors plus new ones, all Penny III colors plus new ones, the Penny I seems to have revived and I am sure that there are many people waiting for the Penny I home retros to drop and since Nike retroed the "playoff" version for the first time ever, the hopes are very high! I think there is no need to talk about the Nike Foamposite shoe, it has Pennys logo on it, so it is part of his line, indifferent, if people today know, why they were so unique back in the days or not. Apart from that we had the Flight Ones and other shoes Penny wore before his signature line. If Nike would release some of the PEs he wore during his stint with Phoenix and New York, people would buy those as well.
Of course some versions end up with a discounted price, but so do shoes of other players.
I think there is demand for 1 or 2 Penny shorts as well as tank tops, zippers and Hoodies in Magic color ways. We see about 5 T-Shirt versions every year, so why not release complements to those.
So I think he is relevant, Nike economic and fan wise! Of course I would say that, I am an OG Penny fan, but I am sure there are new Penny fans, who would buy those things as well! The 1Cent logo is just very convincing, who does not want to have a number 1 on his clothing? Check how many players wear number 1 in the NBA, almost every team has 1 player wearing it!
Penny in terms of NBA awards has achieved less than Chuck, AI and some other players, but he gets more love from the fans, still today, well why is that? Draw your own conclusion!
