Why are the Jordan 11's the most popular out of all the Jordan shoe models? they get the most fakes

IntoJsagain88 said:

Had to bump this thread again in regards to these incidents that happened over the recent release of the Jordan XI Legend Blue, seriously, Jordan Brand has got to do something about this god damn it!!!!!, it's crazy, stupid, ******ed on how far people will go just for shoes.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/286809121.html

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What the hell do you want them to do? It's not their fault people don't know how to act.
Their job is to manufacture and sell shoes.
That's like blaming Sony if someone breaks into your house and steals your TV.

1s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, 7s, 8s, 9s, 10s, 12s, 14s, 17s >>>>>>>>> 11s

12 Million said:

1s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, 7s, 8s, 9s, 10s, 12s, 14s, 17s >>>>>>>>> 11s

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Damn, so every decent-good jordan is better than 11s ? Is this an honest opinion or was this made through a combination of salt and sadderdays?

Foamposite XI said:

What the hell do you want them to do? It's not their fault people don't know how to act.
Their job is to manufacture and sell shoes.
That's like blaming Sony if someone breaks into your house and steals your TV.

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But if a Accord is the most popular stolen car, they don't cry about Honda doing more.

The guy who said "you had to be there to understand" said it perfect. For me personally, 11s dropped when I was in the 6th grade, leaving elementary for intermediate school. A time when you have your first taste of independence. I started meeting new people and liking new things. I had already owned white infrareds when I was younger and found a pair of steel 10s while back to school shopping at ross. at the time I was really into pennys. When those 11s dropped it was something so brand new and completely different. I remember some of the older kids had a community pair of breds that they all wore. I wanted them so bad! A couple years later one of my friends somehow got them and I traded him my pair of pretty much ds playoff 13s. The breds by now were so destroyed but F it I had them! I think that love for 11s was passed down from older heads to the next generation and in this age of technology and social media it takes that hype to an unimaginable level

I can't answer the question of why 11's are so hyped. However, they are my favorite Jay of all time. I was too young when they first came out so I didn't care about sneakers. When I was in middle school my parents used to buys me one or two pairs of Jays a year and I didn't think anything of it. I didn't see them as better than any other shoe people at my school had. But once the 11's came out, all of that changed for me. Especially when then Breds came out. To me it was something special. I had to get a pair. And that's what started my sneaker obsession

Haha funny thing is when the tuxedos(concord) first came out, I associated them with funny looking shoes...that whole bad boy shiny suit man look, only saw patent leather on shoes from Payless(character shoes) up to that point...them them blk'n'red was a complete nono, living in la still gotta watch them colors, that CW screamed BLOOD!! Kinda glad fashion is where it is now, don't worry as much about color issues.

The 11's will forever be my grails, and it wasn't just the shoes, it was my piece of nostalgia, one of those things I truly like without due influence of anybody else, one of the first items I would put in a time capsule if I were to define my favorite decade: the 90's, decade with the best hip hop music, the golden age of all sneaker enthusiasts, and these sneaker enthusiasts were first and foremost basketball fans and honest fans of MJ.

Ever since I was a toddler, my dad would buy me the latest Jordan's, quite frankly I didn't remember it too much bc shoes were just shoes to me and I didn't know any better, lol. It wasn't until I got to 1st grade till I started watching, liking, playing and loving basketball, and on top of that, watching MJ grace the TV and straight dominate where my fascination grew even more. I was in 2nd grade back in 95 when the xi's released. (For any of the Bay Area ppl on here) I remember my dad taking me to the sportmart (known as sports authority today) at McCarthy ranch and showing me those original colorway Concords for the first time..my eyes were gleamin, I was MindBlown, excited, feeling all kinds of joy. Of course the first thing I noticed was the patent leather, but it was the clear blue sole that really caught my fancy. The purple pods and the colorway in general felt mysterious to me given that it no way resembled the color of the team MJ played for which made even more dope in my opinion at the time. I remember feeling all sorts of excitement, and the crushing heartbreaking blow when my dad said he wouldn't get them for me. I begged and begged like the spoiled brat I was haha. I didn't want anything else at the time, not video games, not toys, not anything but those sneakers. I had the picture on my wall, I put that on my list for Santa Claus lolol. It wasn't until that Christmas in '95, when after opening all those gifts hoping that one of them were those sneakers, of course none of them being it. Then out of nowhere, my dad told he heard something near the fireplace and it might be Santa hahaha. I went over to check and low and behold those pair of sneakers were waiting for me and on the box it read from Santa, of course they were in my dads handwriting but I didn't know at the time, but my dad was the man. Ha

My apologies for my story lol, thought I would just share my personal account of what I experienced, but it is true, you really had to be there when they originally released to feel what it's like.

Fyi, bust rhymes rocks them in his "everything remains raw" music video and he is also driving one of my favorite cars, the Toyota 4Runner, LOLOL.

12 Million said:

1s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, 7s, 8s, 9s, 10s, 12s, 14s, 17s >>>>>>>>> 11s

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I can understand people got different tastes but the 9s????

AJ11s = AJ1s = AJ3s.

ryanjumpman420 said:

AJ11s = AJ1s = AJ3s.

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ryanjumpman420 still speaking the truth.  Repped.

Hype

OG Blk/Rd 11s were more popular than OG Concords. I was in middle school. I remember it well. It was all about the black/reds 11s.

j o 19 said:

YOU DEFINITELY HAVE TO BE OLDER TO UNDERSTAND… WHEN THESE DROPPED IT WAS DIFFERENT AND THAT PATENT LEATHER WAS A REFRESHINGLY DOPE TOUCH. THE BLACK RED CONTRAST FOR THE PLAYOFFS WERE SICK… THEY USED TO BE JUST AS POPULAR AS THE CONCORDS IN NYC. AND THE CONCORDS … THAT WHITE AND BLACK WAS SIMPLY SICK. ADD THAT ON TOP OF IT BEING A "NEW JORDAN" AND THE FACT THAT MIKE WAS STILL PLAYING AND WAS PLENTY OF PPL'S FAV PLAYER. THESE WERE REALLY GOOD FOR CASUAL WEAR.. THE LIST GOES ON AND ON…

I HEAR PPL SAYING THEY WERE EASY TO GET BACK THEN BLEH BLEH… I GUESS IT WAS A REGIONAL THING BECAUSE THESE DID NOT SIMPLY HANG AROUND STORES IN NYC WITH EASE. I REMEMBER SEARCHING EVERRRRYYYWHERE FOR A PAIR WHEN I WAS IN THE 5TH GRADE AND CAME UP EMPTY. WHEN THEY RETRO'D AGAIN IN 2000 THE ONLY WAY THEY WERE EASY TO ATTAIN WOULD HAVE TO HAVE BEEN THROUGH THE FACT THAT WE DID NOT HAVE RELEASE DATES BACK THEN SO PPL KIND OF WALKED INTO A SHOE STORE AND WERE LIKE GIVE ME A PAIR NOW! BUT ONCE RELEASE DATES STARTED TO BECOME A THING… PLAYOFFS, LOW TOP CAROLINAS AND REDS, COOL GREYS, AND SPACE JAMS…. WERE DEFINITELY NOT EASY TO GET…

FACTOR IN THE NEW KIDS THAT NEVER HAD EM TO BEGIN WITH AND THE "OG'S" THAT MISSED OUT AND WAITED FOR THEM TO DROP… AND BOOM HERE WE ARE TODAY… BUT THATS JUST MY THOUGHTS… IM SURE THERE ARE QUITE A FEW OTHER THINGS THAT FACTOR INTO IT

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sckid20 said:

If they were any brand...even a high designer brand.... and came out now or in 96 they would be amazing.

Cant say that about alot of sneakers.

And nowadays with so many cws...gimicks etc.

Basically 2 colors besides the sole.
black..white...so simple.

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These 2 shoes provided a much needed volt into Nike. And amazingly, came out within a year of each other. Jordan 9-10 was flopping.....then the royal foamposite made its debut. Already criticized for it's $180 price tag everybody was barking at the price for a sneaker. But....when the Mike Bibby of Arizona Wildcats broke them out first during the 97 final four championship, it was game over! I blew my entire Captain D's paycheck during high school to cop those bad boys


Theres probably a planet out there where beings have feet and put things on their feet. Maybe amazing super technological things.

But imo we got em with the royal foamposites and aj 11.



OG COLORS ONLY

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Awww....the infamous easy days. I just learned of niketalk in 2000. I could catch every retro on ndc or eastbay with ease. Nike air branded 4 and 5, concords, columbias and space jams, limited olympic 6 at that time etc

ryanjumpman420 said:

OG Blk/Rd 11s were more popular than OG Concords. I was in middle school. I remember it well. It was all about the black/reds 11s.

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I would still choose the Black/Reds over the Concords

digiballs said:

I would still choose the Black/Reds over the Concords

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So would I no doubt. I'd trade my columbia 11s for some bred 11s right now.

This was the issue of Eastbay when my interest in Jordan's initiated. I wanted that track warm up too. But I couldn't. By the time high school came around, I had money, so I bought the 2001 breds.
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if 11s now looked like that I'd think a lot more highly of them. the retros today just don't do much for me. they straight, I have cool grey, concord, and black/red. nowhere near my favorite shoes in my collection though. probably not even top 10. top 20 perhaps

Well here's my story with the 11's..im 33 now and these came out in my last year in junior high..and correct me if im wrong but jordan brought these out not at the begining of the season but for the playoffs...what i do remember is watching that first game he pulled them out (concords)...i hated jordan cuz of the magic/knick killer he was(im from NY and my favorite player at the time were penny and AI) so it sucked to be in my shoes...but just watching the game im looking at his shoes and i cant tell what hes wearing all I know is that it was pure BEAUTY no other words to describe it...it was a real love/ hate thing with these.I remember my friend telling me that he actually had plastic bags covering the shoes so u cant tell what they were... i was like believe it or not i think its patent leather no one in their right mind would even think of a basketball shoe with patent leather...tinker just pulled it off magically. There was so much hate towards them because of this. But if you were into sneakers like i was it was just brilliant. Made me like jordan a lil more..lol

Typical accruement of value over time

"Nostalgia"

Infrequent releases (this more than anything)

Not to many "bizarre/different" color ways

Differences and changes in culture over time and generations style-wise. There aren't too many sneakers that can compete with Jordan's nowadays.

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Man. I'm 34 and I remember those Eastbay ads when you could cop AJ's days, weeks later. Crazy how it's turned into seconds and minutes now before a sellout. Putting that into perspective is Insane!

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I think by Jordan brand raising the price, it will calm down in due time. Maybe not this year but eventually. Other brands have caught up price wise and theres no shock anymore when buying Jordans. It will eventually get so expensive we probably wont see garbage colorways like the last grey 3s, or baron 13s because people just wont buy. They will slowly creep back to the status they held back in the day. Then we will get the liars and lames that claim they like another players shoe better, thats coincedentally cheaper! Hated those guys, in their Converse React juice from Big 5. Lmao

Koolkeith34 said:

I think by Jordan brand raising the price, it will calm down in due time. Maybe not this year but eventually. Other brands have caught up price wise and theres no shock anymore when buying Jordans. It will eventually get so expensive we probably wont see garbage colorways like the last grey 3s, or baron 13s because people just wont buy. They will slowly creep back to the status they held back in the day. Then we will get the liars and lames that claim they like another players shoe better, thats coincedentally cheaper! Hated those guys, in their Converse React juice from Big 5. Lmao

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didn't own a pair of Converse React Juice, but never saw anything wrong back in the day with people preferring another NBA players kicks over a pair of Jordan's, regardless of the price tag.