Air Jordan XIII
(13)
Head Designer: Tinker Hatfield
On December 30th Jordan broke Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's
NBA record, by scoring in double-digits for the
788th consecutive game. He also led the Bulls
to their sixth NBA Championship title.
Panther paws
Hatfield kept on making original designs. The
XIII's featured a nice hologram on the ankle and
the design was said to be inspired by a panther.
The outsole with pads like a paw and circles representing
whiskers.
The hologram showed the following images;
- A basketball
- The number 23
- The jumpman logo
Two different low-top colors were also released
to the public. These without the hologram.
Crappy variants
Most of the previous models had been produced
in Taiwan but XII took the step to China and XIII
was also produced in China. It's weird but this
made fakes or so called factory variants of AJ's
very common, seems as if the factory really knew
that this was a product that they could make money
on.
The fakes usually had awful color combinations
and the quality was far from satisfying.
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