Recent content by rainking

Yeah, and the movie was filming in Summer 95 LOL

Yeah, f this. No matter how much I like the look. If they had at least a small Zoom unit in the forefoot, I would’ve caved. But zero? And all that Zoom branding on the outsole? No thanks.

And the damn shoe was designed probably about three years before filming of the movie even began. It’s absurd nonsense.

I’m older than you and finally starting to feel the same way. But it has as much to do with so many releases being back to halfass versions. I’m not gonna keep buying the same shoes over and over any more if the shapes etc are off. Like the upcoming white/black 9s. If they were done properly, I...

Really would like a fresh pair of these but I’m done giving JB my money for disappointment. Especially at the latest full prices. Only way I’m buying these now is if they hit a solid discount. These barely look any different than my 2016s that are still in great, clean shape. If I’m going to...

Why?

I was gonna say, has anyone seen the white/red/black in an actual store? I haven’t been able to find them in LA and I’ve been on vacation in Michigan for the past week and can’t find them here, either. Now I see the Foot Locker site says they are an exclusive. I probably just should’ve bought...

@AIR J XIII Is there any word of the white/navy 16 returning? Been 10 dang years since the one previous retro smh.

I was just going by what @AIR J XIII (I think it was him) said previously.

Cotdamn, if they look like this I’m gonna end up caving and buying them despite the cheapened cushioning setup. :smh:@myself

It’s indeed a sad state of affairs and a common NT response to factual observations that making such observations and comments somehow equals being an angry old man, suffering from a lack of joy, etc etc :lol: No idea how someone makes that jump, doubly so when I blatantly said it’s minor and...

Good lord. I don’t expect everyone to know the history of all of these shoes. But this is how a lot of misinformation and revised history comes to be viewed as fact. And it’s why the way JB markets these things now irritates me LOL. Because it fuels this revisionist history nonsense in the name...

No one said it wasn’t. These shoes were intended to be MJ’s game shoes for the ‘94 Bulls season, zero to do with a movie. They apparently also were the current AJ when certain scenes were shot. Why not call them the Statue IXs, since they’re the shoes used on the MJ statue at the UC? Why not...

A lot of people where? Certainly not on this site. Maybe some new Gen Z social media thing? Regardless. My point wasn’t really to complain about some new generation referring to them as such. Or to dog any one person who does. The point is, the IX is ONLY associated with the movie because it...

The marketing people at Nike/JB these days will shovel whatever nonsense they can to tell any kind of story. Especially when they’re desperate for a story and they don’t think there’s much of a genuine one to fall back on. There’s practically no on-court story for the IX, so the SJ angle was...