Part of what makes Nike such a cultural icon is its ability to release shoes that pay tribute to moments in sports history. Recently they’ve release a few pairs of shoes that just ain’t right.
The first is a series of shoes released by Nike’s Jordan Brand line called the Six Rings. The Six Rings is a fushion shoe that combines elements of all of shoes Jordan wore during his six championship runs. That concept itself is cool, but recently Nike started releasing “tribute” packs in the colors of the opponents Jordan ripped the heart out of during his championship runs. A few years back, I wrote about how Jordan turned championship dreams into nightmares. The last thing fans of those teams want to see is Jordan selling “tribute” shoes in their favorite teams colors to commemorate the beating he gave all of them. As Charles Barkley would say: Magic Johnson, Clyde Drexler, Charles Barkley, Gary Payton, John Stockton and Karl Malone are all rollin’ over in their graves.
Nike has continued this “tribute” trend with their release of the Zoom Kobe IV in a Charlotte Hornets colorway with the 6.11.96 (the date they traded Kobe away) engraved on the back. I guess this is to pay tribute to the Charlotte Hornets making one of the biggest draft day bungles ever when they traded the draft rights to Kobe Bryant to the Lakers for Vlade Divac. Why you gotta do that to Nike? That’s just wrong.
(Via: kixandthecity)
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