Air jordan 7 Playoffs retro 2022 - 30th anniversary

[picasso swerve]

Nah Raptor implies the Toronto team and they were never called that until sneaker heads in the mid 2000s

When I see them I think Raptor 7’s. Mid 2000’s is my teen years so go figure.

 

[beh235]

I guess it's just different points of reference I suppose. I can never bring myself to call them that simply because the raptors weren't in existence when that shoe came out. Makes no sense to me. Again, one of the reasons why I hate the term "sneakerhead" and all the stuff that comes with it, nonsensical nicknames included lol.

 

[206to813]

Bro all shoes do. You just can’t see it while playing. Getty Images and the press associates aren’t taking pics of you while playing

Nah..
Some shoes roll over really bad like EJs 7s in the pic. Others don’t. Some you can stop on a dime at full speed and they don’t roll like that, just depends. But do your thing chief

 

[JRepp23]

Nah..
Some shoes roll over really bad like EJs 7s in the pic. Others don’t. Some you can stop on a dime at full speed and they don’t roll like that, just depends. But do your thing chief

 

[Kierris]

Much rather call them Raptors than Playoffs.

The raptors didn't exist when these dropped.

 

[thebagman]

I guess it's just different points of reference I suppose. I can never bring myself to call them that simply because the raptors weren't in existence when that shoe came out. Makes no sense to me. Again, one of the reasons why I hate the term "sneakerhead" and all the stuff that comes with it, nonsensical nicknames included lol.

Agreed. Black was playoff Jordan’s. Until the XII and you had bred and playoff. But both only used in the playoffs. Sneaker head groupie culture

 

[picasso swerve]

I guess it's just different points of reference I suppose. I can never bring myself to call them that simply because the raptors weren't in existence when that shoe came out. Makes no sense to me. Again, one of the reasons why I hate the term "sneakerhead" and all the stuff that comes with it, nonsensical nicknames included lol.

True but thats just what I always referred to them as.

 

[picasso swerve]

Agreed. Black was playoff Jordan’s. Until the XII and you had bred and playoff. But both only used in the playoffs. Sneaker head groupie culture

It aint that serious.

 

[thebagman]

It aint that serious.

Who said it was serious? Just commenting on the stupid retroactive Raptors nickname

 

[JRepp23]

It agitates the hell out of me that my 2012 release gets this white film on the back tabs while my DMPs never show this. You clean it off then it slowly comes back.

 

[forest hills]

Being born in 2000, I definitely called them Raptors until I ended up here in 2011. Upon learning all that I have over the years from being here, I immediately stopped calling the Playoff 7s the "Raptors". To call them the name of a team that didn't even exist when they came out is silly to me, but people are free to use whatever terms they please. They are just shoes but for me personally it's either Playoffs or Dark Charcoal as the name for them.

 

[jordanhead718212]

I was born in 93 and I call them Raptors. Idc about historical accuracy, it's a nickname

 

[ShaSam]

I call these sneakers, I don’t care what anyone says. It’s what I call them and it’s my money and I want it now!

 

[JRepp23]

Moved on from the nickname thing. It dont bother me anymore. I just dont want corrected when I use the Charcoal or Playoff term.

 

[basketballshoefan69420]

these better not look like the ones they released last time, those were totally wrong, (all one tone of black, way too bright of colors on the soles of purple and red) I hope they look like the OG ones Matthew broadrick was wearing in that throwback photo with two tones of suede/leather whatever the material is I forget

 

[therealest1]

Here we go again with that about that idiotic Raptors nickname for those pair of classic VII.

And my stance is still F that dumber than remedial nickname.

Anyone who gladly accepts that corny nickname or proudly refers to them as that doesn't know about basketball and the history of the game.

How the F are you going to nickname those shoes after a team that entered the NBA as an expansion team 3 years after those shoes came out? I don't give a about that team's colors matching those VII because it doesn't justify naming it after that team predicated on timeline inaccuracy.

They will always be Jordan VII Playoff or Charcoal to me because they were initially made for Michael Jordan during the 1991-92 season and the 1992 NBA Playoffs.

 

[jordanhead718212]

Oh brother

 

[you go boy]

Much rather call them Raptors than Playoffs.

I agree... and I like calling the black colorways of the 4, 11, 12 and 13 "breds"

 

[engineer]

never understood why they used purple on these

Was a sign of the times. During that era funky colors on clothing/shoes were all the rage.

I think they also knew fairly early on that people might get bored with just white black fire red over and over on the pairs that MJ wore on court. They started with switching up the color red on the 6 and continued adding different accent colors with the 7/8. Then when MJ came back from retirement we saw it with the concord 11s, taxi 12s. As much as I like a clean bulls cw, I always loved the little hits of random colors on those particular models.

 

[headdetective]

This sht come up every time these joints drop lol

 

[kingjay718]

 

[thebagman]

Nah..
Some shoes roll over really bad like EJs 7s in the pic. Others don’t. Some you can stop on a dime at full speed and they don’t roll like that, just depends. But do your thing chief

Yes but they all do. That’s not bad either. Those are also pro athletes. Much more speed and force than you or rec center ilk. And your shoe does it too, you can’t see it while playing.

I think they also knew fairly early on that people might get bored with just white black fire red over and over on the pairs that MJ wore on court. They started with switching up the color red on the 6 and continued adding different accent colors with the 7/8. Then when MJ came back from retirement we saw it with the concord 11s, taxi 12s. As much as I like a clean bulls cw, I always loved the little hits of random colors on those particular models.

Visibly the AJ XI and AJ XII are what they appear to be which is just look primarily a white and black shoe, just classy.

Small hits of color had nothing to do with what you’re saying.

The flamboyant colors of the infrared on then 6, then all the African type color scheming was a hot thing in 92 and 93 on the 7 and 8. In Living Color, and just the vibrancy of clothes at that time. Nothing to do with anything else.

The first IX was white, and black. The first X was white, black and grey.

 

[engineer]

Yes but they all do. That’s not bad either. Those are also pro athletes. Much more speed and force than you or rec center ilk. And your shoe does it too, you can’t see it while playing.


Visibly the AJ XI and AJ XII are what they appear to be which is just look primarily a white and black shoe, just classy.

Small hits of color had nothing to do with what you’re saying.

The flamboyant colors of the infrared on then 6, then all the African type color scheming was a hot thing in 92 and 93 on the 7 and 8. In Living Color, and just the vibrancy of clothes at that time. Nothing to do with anything else.

The first IX was white, and black. The first X was white, black and grey.

The first X had blue in it.

 

[carlosGT]

The raptors didn't exist when these dropped.

It depends on the painting job the are planning to do.

 

[basketballshoefan69420]

real og Jordan fans called any black Jordan the "playoffs" when they came out, Bulls only wore black sneakers in playoffs back then, wore white ones all year but you know this