As you know, we’ve been closely following SLAM’’s countdown of all the Jordans, leading up to the release of the XX2, which may be the first ones we pick up in quite some time. That’s undecided as of now, and also beside the point.
No, the point of this post is that today SLAM is hitting up the Jordan XIX, and Sam Rubenstein was nice enough to email us a little tidbit he’d discovered in his research of the shoe.
From Wikipedia:
Released in 2004 and modeled after the black mamba snake, this is the first Jordan release after his third, and final, retirement. Three special editions were released. They consisted of the East, West, and Olympic edition. The Air Jordan XIX uses innovative materials. The upper was developed in collaboration with Material ConneXion Inc. from a sleeving normally used in architectural applications for protecting PVC pipes from bursting. In theory, this allowed for a lace-less shoe because the sleeving does not stretch, however the XIX1 did include a set of laces behind the sleeve to better secure the shoe. While the sleeve is an interesting design concept, its functionality is questionable.
We think you know what the point of curiosity is, and it’s not that the final sentence of that blurb has no business being in any sort of fact-based analysis.
No, it’s not that capital “X” in Material ConneXion Inc., either.
What it is – WHAT IT IS – is that the shoe was based on a black mamba snake, which as Sam noted, brings into question the origins of Kobe’s self-given nickname, and thus the origins of our character Mamba.
Common thought, as put forth by Kobe, was that it all sprang from Kill Bill, the Quentin Tarantino film. Does it all go back to Michael Jordan, though?
In some ways, that makes sense. In others, not so much. What’s important is that this is the first Jordan shoe that we didn’t really take note of at the time, which is sad in a way. Not sad like starving orphans or watching Airplane! last night and finding that it doesn’t completely hold up anymore, but still sad.
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How many days of shooting will this require? (If it happens in Hudson, I want an extra gig).
BTW, WTF is DC?
roger Hudson may indeed feel the wrath of Mamba in the future if everything with WSM goes well. What’s the DC reference – I’m missing something.
I haven’t seen “Airplane” in double digit years. Was the jive-talking nun still killing it?
That was the Beaver’s mom, and no – that was some of the stuff that was really dated. I was shocked.
In the banner-header dealie, next to “Contact”.
Did you click on it?
Uh . . . no (I will NEVER admit that I don’t understand.)
YALL R MAD FCKIN GGAYASS PPL
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