Team USA will face Australia in its first tournament nike 95s game of the London Olympics in just a short time, the same team they trounced in the 2008 quarterfinal round by thirty-one points. This squad often being called simply the New Dream Team' redeemed USA Basketball four years ago, their renewed commitment echoed by Nike Basketball's revelation of a game-changing performance machine that's still the standard to which modern basketball sneakers are compared.
The Nike Hyperdunk is yet another example of Eric Avar leading an innovative new project to fruition, its use of Flywire and LunarLite technologies so futuristic, it was only natural to include a Nike Mag-like heel counter nike 97 (and that legendary Marty McFly' debut edition). Click through to see sketches that represent the epicenter of a shift from which we're still feeling the aftershocks and stick with Sneaker News as we approach the right-end nike 97s of the timeline on this Swoosh roundball retrospective.
The Nike Air Hyperflight was a response to the question with which Bowerman met Avar in product meetings over the years: "Can you make it lighter?" Click through to see the sketches that show the transition from the rocket-infused BB4 into a new era of synthetics and bold colorways and stick with Sneaker News for the second half of this series next week.
While the game of basketball nike af1 was certainly evolving into a faster, up-and-down game, there was still a player who earned his paycheck with his back to the basket and under the boards. Max Air was always the platform for those athletes who appreciated some assistance on their return to terra firma. In basketball, footwear has to accommodate a 200-plus pound athlete with upwards of 2,000 pounds of force on his feet upon landing. That's some serious force.
With the advent of the Nike Air Max 360 Air Sole, it was finally possible to create a shoe without foam, thus letting a player ball entirely on air. Utilizing thermoforming technology (versus blow-molding), Nike engineers created a smoother surface at the top of the Air Sole unit to nike air force 1 black attach it more securely to the upper. While foam has the benefit of an added cushioning tool, foam also compresses over time. So its removal meant longer-lasting consistent cushioning.
Today's chapter in the Nike Basketball history book is a discussion of one of many models that makes 1995-96 arguably the best season on record, but this story has its nexus somewhere between the 1992 Air Raid and Air Max2 CB '94 posts that preceded it. Draft Day '93 introduced the entire world to Anfernee Penny' Hardaway , a brilliant oversized point guard from the th point guard from the then-relatively unheralded University of Memphis.