rainking
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For a second I was like, hmmmm, I must’ve imagined waiting in the parking lot in November ‘96 for my local Sports Authority to open that morning.
NIKE Air Jordan IV OG White Fire Red: Black Friday 2020: Nov. 28th
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It's still made by Nike. All the jordan boxes have a swoosh on them somehwere
Exactly. JFC the stuff so-called experts post on this site ...
rainking
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rainking
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But J, don’t you know Wikipedia is the ultimate source for facts?
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That's not what Im getting my info, I wanted something in black and white, since everyone in here is a jordan expert. Show me something to back up your claim.
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So a company can't be around until it's officially advertised? Cmon man. Did you take any economics classes?
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Hahaha, I'm a teacher and I have to tell my students this at least once a week.
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You're wrong on this man. You have multiple OG's in here letting you know you're wrong. Just stop. There was a gigantic media blitz about Jordan Brand for this. 12 may have been the model that was out when it was announced that Jordan was getting on offshoot company, but make no mistake about it, the 13 was the first shoe released by "Brand Jordan." Period.
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The Air Jordan 13 is the first shoe under Jordan Brand (Brand Jordan). The old C.E.O. Jordan commercials.
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Will this do? But I'm the moron. Cool.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...62c-a483-64e93725421e/?utm_term=.d6f7f116bcf3
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Off topic but on the QC stickers that we get on retros now what do the numbers mean? For instance one of my Infrareds had 13 the other had like 5.
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I agree that it was the 13, the ad campaign was for both the shoe and the start of Jordan Brand.
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Hahaha, I'm a teacher and I have to tell my students this at least once a week.
Kids use the internet as a fact checker, some of us actually lived it
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Ohhhh man, I'd forgotten all about the Rosie interview with Blackstreet
. I definitely still have both sets of socks, and I THINK I still have the short sleeve shooting shirt. Pretty sure I also still have a Flight Suit that had a short sleeve jacket/top that was released for the Playoffs.
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Thank you!
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I always thought the first actual Jordan brand sneaker was these the Jumpman team 1
but the actual first numbered Jordan was the xiii
but the actual first numbered Jordan was the xiii
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That’s the problem these days, every kid with WiFi is now a sneaker expert.
I love that the culture has grown so much but there is a huge difference if you actually grew up with it.
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I always thought the first actual Jordan brand sneaker was these the Jumpman team 1
but the actual first numbered Jordan was the xiii
Correct. Those and the white/black pair, plus the Trainers all dropped on the same day a couple of weeks after the 13. Everyone kinda forgets about the Trainers, but those Team 1's were the first non-flagship hoop shoe released by Brand Jordan.
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Agreed. I usually just keep it moving when I see these posts, and the nonsense today is exactly why. Some of the stuff being spouted in the Infrared 6 thread was comical.
AIR J XIII
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Out of curiosity, how do you categorize the Jumpman Pro, which if I recall, released before the official Jordan Brand launch?
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Out of curiosity, how do you categorize the Jumpman Pro, which if I recall, released before the official Jordan Brand launch?
That's a tough one. My first thought was to say the Jumpman Pro was the first non flagship Jordan to be released, but what do we call the AJKO? Is it a 12 takedown model? The easiest way to go is probably to call it the first non flagship performance Jordan. And damn, did I ever love that shoe!
rainking
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Was out all day since this “argument” popped off. Props to my fellow compatriots who lived it as well for making the point. I have a mint copy of the 100-Percent Mike issue of Slam that features the first print ad campaign for the brand, built around the 13. Not bothering to post it here. We all know.
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Damn and I just was killing time scrolling through interesting looking threads...glad I stumbled on this gem of a convo about the first Brand Jordan shoe...I remember all of it as I had graduated HS June 97...so this was all after that and pretty easy to remember what dropped and the excellent CEO commercial. Who needs the internet when your memory still functions 100%?
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I know this will be an unpopular statement, but the Pro really was the first fusion. It had XI and XII features. It really was the "test" shoe to give an idea to Nike if this was really legit or not. The separation from Nike I mean. I ran to the mall for em.
