We also use that elephant emboss here

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The shoe's beginnings can actually be traced back to the , when Nike took a serious interest in collegiate women's basketball programs (the WNBA wouldn't exist for another 20 years). In 1983, the brand sponsored some 30 collegiate women's teams.

Jordan has a history of doing things that haven't been done . Going back to the original Air Jordan III with elephant print, the floater leather was not used in basketball at the time because it wasn't considered to be robust enough. I was like, ‘Screw that, it's going to work. We'll just reinforce it in a few places.' And sure enough, it just changed the way all basketball shoes were made because it made them instantly comfortable to break in. In that way, the feathered leather is Jordan-esque. We also use that elephant emboss here. The tongue holes nod to the two we used in the Air Jordan VI.

Made with a pattern that includes an ancient boat , the captain's "C" and a new Chinese-character version of Ronaldo's famed CR7 mark, the logo suggests the player's capacity to galvanize – metaphorically, to breath fire into – Chinese football.

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