Air Jordan
XIII (13)
Head Designer: Tinker Hatfield
On December 30th Jordan broke Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's
NBA record, by scoring in double-digits
for the 788th consecutive game. He also
led the Bulls to their sixth NBA Championship
title.
Panther paws
Hatfield kept on making original designs.
The XIII's featured a nice hologram on
the ankle and the design was said to be
inspired by a panther. The outsole with
pads like a paw and circles representing
whiskers.
The hologram showed the following images;
- A basketball
- The number 23
- The jumpman logo
Two different low-top colors were also
released to the public. These without
the hologram.
Crappy variants
Most of the previous models had been produced
in Taiwan but XII took the step to China
and XIII was also produced in China. It's
weird but this made fakes or so called
factory variants of AJ's very common,
seems as if the factory really knew that
this was a product that they could make
money on.
The fakes usually had awful color combinations
and the quality was far from satisfying.
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