In 2017, Ronaldo was on hand to honor Lv , who brought football to students in the rural, mountainous area of Long Xi County in the southeast of Gan Su Province. The culmination of a year's effort came in the ground-breaking of a new pitch in Lv's community.
By the time the was born in 1996, eight teams played in the league's inaugural season, and it was clear no player was more deserving of a signature shoe than Sheryl Swoopes. The star forward was the first player signed to the WNBA, and the only one to have a triple-double in a playoff game. She helped lead the Houston Comets, Seattle Storm, Tulsa Shock and three U.S. gold-medal teams (she wore her Nike Air Swoopes II in the 1996 Atlanta games). Between 1993 and 2011, Swoopes received numerous accolades, including the ESPY's Best Female College Basketball Player, WNBA Defensive Player of the Year and the WNBA's Top 15 Players of All Time.
When we were first told that our were in the next room, my first reaction was, "I'm going to faint,'" joked Gabrielle Serrano, winner of the NYC vote and designer of the Air Max 98 La Mezcla. "But then they led us to our samples, and I saw it for the first time. I felt like my head exploded. What I drew was actually in my hands.