The Foamposite cheap nike shoes now needed its athlete. "We had it and we'd been working with it for some time and were, quite honestly, a little undecided on what to do with it," recalled Avar. On meeting Penny Hardaway to discuss the Nike Air Penny III, Avar brought along an early Foamposite sample. "I wasn't sure I was even going to show that sample to him. We had other ideas we were presenting. But he leaned over, looked into the bag and said,  What is that?' He reached in, grabbed it and he says,  This is my next shoe!' I was like,  Okay! There's the go-to-market strategy!'"

Since 1992, Nike Basketball has created an endless library of masterpieces that perfectly blended art, design, and function using world-class mens nike running trainers technology and engineering. Over the next twenty days leading up to the 2012 Olympic Basketball Semi-Final, Nike Basketball will revisit twenty awe-inspiring pairs selected from the last two decades in a mini-feature titled  20 Designs The Changed The Game  , new nike shoes and it begins today with the Nike Air Force 180 Low. The Nike Air Force 180 Low was introduced in 1992 and was built for the ground-and-pound aspect of basketball and made for players like Charles Barkley in mind.

Sneaker News has followed Nike Basketball back through the first half of its examination of the past twenty years , and after Tinker Hatfield's name rang out through the first week, this second go-round has been dominated by another legendary designer. But even with all the success nike 90 of the Air Penny 1, Air Foamposite One, Flightposite and Shox BB4, Eric Avar looked to Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman for inspiration on the 2001 flagship release.

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.

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 attach it more securely to the upper. While foam has the benefit of an added cushioning tool, foam nike 95 black also compresses over time. So its removal meant longer-lasting consistent cushioning.

It was on June 30th of that year that the Orlando Magic traded the rights to #1 pick Chris Webber of Michigan Fab Five (and Air Flight Huarache) fame, cementing Penny's return from a gunshot that just two years earlier had jeopardized his entire career.Webber went on to win that season's Rookie of the Year award, but in Hardaway, Orlando had a once-a-generation talent who would become the face of the franchise and arguably the most successful Nike signature athlete of the mid-to-late '90s not named  Michael Jordan'.