Air Jordan - the Era of the Premature Retirement

The Air Jordan 9 came out when Michael Jordan was in retirement from basketball. Michael Jordan did demonstrate his baseball batting ability (such as it was) indoors while wearing this particular model of Air Jordan.

Air Jordan 9

Ironically, my favorite Air Jordan model, the Air Jordan 9, came out when Michael Jordan was in his first retirement from basketball, in November 1993. They originally sold for $125. (Other people I knew agreed that these were great shoes.)

Here is the Air Jordan 9, updated in 2002 to the Washington Wizards colors.
 

This is a version of the Air Jordan 9 Retro Low.
 

The Air Jordan 9 features a number of foreign words from multiple languages in the sole pattern.
 

Nike issued the following colors of Air Jordan 9:

• Black with red JUMPMAN
• Black with blue [not in general distribution: Mitch Redmond did wear them]
• Black with olive green, red JUMPMAN
• White with black, red JUMPMAN
• White with gray, blue JUMPMAN (2002 reissue only)
• White with Carolina blue
• White with blue and Carolina blue

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