Air Jordan X (10)
Head Designer: Tinker Hatfield
Michael Jordan's new found baseball career was
interrupted when a player strike broke out. Rumours
broke out that he would return to the basketball
court and on March 19th 1995 Jordan was back on
the floor.
Surprised Nike?
It seemed as if Nike wasn't expecting to see Jordan
back in the game so soon. They started to re-release
older model's of the AJ series (I, II, III) and
the X's soles featured an honor or an award from
each year Michael had spent in the NBA.
Apart from these soles the design was no real
surprise and was overall very plain. Hatfield
picked up a few design elements from previous
models and you could see some obvious signs of
influence from the III's, the V's and the VI's.
Samplemania continues
If the IX's had a lot of different samples, the
X's were even worse. There were a lot of different
team colors that were produced in limited quantities
and there were samples with numbers for a lot
of different players in the NBA. As Michael wore
number 45 when he returned there were also samples
with #45 stitched on the shoes.
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