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Originally Posted by Candied42
The representation by the Nike employee sounds more like marketing. I specifically remember when these air maxes came out that it was Pippen who had the shoes changed to the zoom air units. He saw and had worn Jordan's before and was absolutely furious about the Air Max marketing ploy. They were way too heavy and clunky for his quick and lateral style of play and had demanded that Nike make him a lighter version of the shoe. Unfortunately, Nike had other ideas on what to sell to the market, those being the days of the crazy full-length visible air soles. As the story goes, I heard that Pip threatened to leave Nike if they didn't change his game shoe.
As you can probably tell by what i've already posted in this thread, i find that much more convincing.