Air Jordan
X (10)
Head Designer: Tinker Hatfield
Michael Jordan's new found baseball career
was interrupted when a player strike broke
out. Rumours broke out that he would return
to the basketball court and on March 19th
1995 Jordan was back on the floor.
Surprised Nike?
It seemed as if Nike wasn't expecting
to see Jordan back in the game so soon.
They started to re-release older model's
of the AJ series (I, II, III) and the
X's soles featured an honor or an award
from each year Michael had spent in the
NBA.
Apart from these soles the design was
no real surprise and was overall very
plain. Hatfield picked up a few design
elements from previous models and you
could see some obvious signs of influence
from the III's, the V's and the VI's.
Samplemania continues
If the IX's had a lot of different samples,
the X's were even worse. There were a
lot of different team colors that were
produced in limited quantities and there
were samples with numbers for a lot of
different players in the NBA. As Michael
wore number 45 when he returned there
were also samples with #45 stitched on
the shoes.
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