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Air Jordan 12 playoffs Release Report, Quick Look, History, Where To Buy & Legit Check Tips
Feb 19, 2025
To buy the size 13, see link below
https://housakicks.com/product/2022-air-jordan-12-playoffs-black-white-red-ct8013-006-new/
to read the real vs fake post, see link below
https://housakicks.com/legit-check/how-to-spot-identify-the-fake-air-jordan-12-playoffs/
The Air Jordan 12 Retro Playoffs are one of the most iconic sneakers in the Jordan Brand line. They were first released in 1997, and they're best known for their clean black and white colorway. The history of the Air Jordan 12 is closely intertwined with the legend of Michael Jordan himself. In fact, this particular model was designed with MJ's input, and it was inspired by the classic Japanese Flag. I was able to scoop up a pair today via my local mall and in the video below, I'll give you a quick look, shorty history and some legit check tips to avoid the fakes that are circulating on the market. I also discuss the recent increase in price and some shady practices from JB.
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hey what's going on guys this is
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tigerhazakicks.com and this wasn't
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playing at all today uh yesterday i was
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trying to get the playoff twelves so i
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did the app thing on footlocker and i
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struck out couldn't get a size 12 or 13
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that i was looking for
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and uh today i decided to just go to the
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mall now yesterday was like 70 degrees
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in maryland it was nice and then today
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snowed so i guess
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most people didn't want to do anything
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going out so i drove to the mall and
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walked into my foot locker and asked the
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guys do you still have to play of 12
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and they go yeah what size do you need
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and i said what size do you have he
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won't tell me what size they had because
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according to policy you can't do that so
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i told him i needed 12. he went back
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couldn't find it 12 came back out and
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he goes i don't have a 12 and i told him
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okay let me try to get it to a team so
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basically i was sending back and forth
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he finally got the 13 for me
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and i picked it up this morning
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so
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i just wanted to show you a couple of
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things if you look at the
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the shoe cost by the way
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uh 210 so if you look at the label here
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they ripped it right so basically it was
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done on purpose i first thought that the
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reason why they did this is because i
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guess they were getting overstocked from
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china but that wasn't the case it's
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because originally it said 190 but
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because nike didn't want to get into any
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kind of like legal trouble they ripped
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off the label they asked all the
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retailers to rip it off and then bump it
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up to like 210 so i don't know exactly
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when to change the price but this was
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originally
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1 190. so which means which means the
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shoe had been produced a long time ago
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and they decided to change the price
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at their own given time so which i'm
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gonna look right now so it was produced
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in july of 2021 between july of 2021 and
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october of 2021 that's what a date says
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if you look that's what the date says
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all right so i don't know when they
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decided to change the date
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so that's not right 20 on top you're
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making people pay much and you're asking
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retailers to rip off the label that's
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not good business practices i didn't
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think that was nice i didn't think that
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was right that they did that but you
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know they can get away with it they know
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people are going to go for it
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so this is the play of 12 okay so the
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player of 12 again classic shoe
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originally released in 1997.
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that's when michael jordan and the boats
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were playing against the utah jars
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and i was at the time i was born in 1981
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so i was still 1997 i was 16 at the time
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and i was still living back in togo so
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it wasn't like we were watching the
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games so we were not really watching the
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game so to speak so we kind of had just
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to know the score michael jordan was
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everybody loved michael jordan even back
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in togo we all loved michael jordan so
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he played against utah jazz and then
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they had john s uh john stockton and
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carmalone they revolutionized their
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pick-and-roll
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so the player of 12 came out of that at
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the best possible time michael jordan
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was still running he was still pretty
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much a market player in the league
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and uh the 12 was inspired by the
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japanese flag the rising sun so do you
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see the lines yet this is supposed to
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emulate on the rays of the sun on the
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japanese flags actually a jordan 12 came
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out that was called the rising sun it
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was a white and red jordans they came
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out
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i don't know how wayne but those were
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specifically dedicated to the flags of
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japan so this again if you see the lines
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here that's supposed to emulate the
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japanese flag now again when the jordan
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12 came out
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jordan wasn't the only one that actually
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loved the shoe uh scary people liked it
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he absolutely loved it to the point
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where he put away his own air max up
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temples and was balling in the twelves
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and uh i guess luke longley and another
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guy named ben willington i think he also
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liked the shoe so all three guys that
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loved the shoe and actually became an
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instant classic i tried to play with a
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full game 12 and he was kind of hurting
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my feet a little bit because he was too
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narrow on the foot under on them four
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foot area i had a white i have a white
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foot but again the twelve the play off
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twice the classic
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so what you have here i guess they're
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trying to
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stay close to the original release black
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and it's a really glossy gla black color
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here and then you have white um
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synthetic leather with the snake skin
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pattern or a little bit
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on the mod guard and then the tab here
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this tab
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uh
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this this type of jumpman logo and then
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the eye the eyelets in metallic silver
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and then you have your jumpman logo on
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the outside of the tongue 223. so all
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these you guys know about this sneaker
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so it's not like you don't know about it
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you have your herringbone threads for
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cut to the basket and then your carbon
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fiber shank again for torsional rigidity
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so the shoe doesn't bang you can see
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it's really sturdy here again the
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playoff tour is an incredible shoe now
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for the guys that want to legit check
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this snicker there's a couple of things
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you need to look at i saw the fake ones
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which actually did uh reverse effect on
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my website so what you want to look for
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is this plastic tab on the fake ones is
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gray instead of silver this is silver
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this is silver the fake one is gray
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you're going to see that i may put up a
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picture up there for you to see but this
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is what you want to check okay that's
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one of the key things that they missed
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and if you look on the back
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on the fake ones these here on the
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midsole is crooked the edges are rugged
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it's too bad and the tab on the fake
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ones is also too short okay this is a
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longer tab on the authentic on the fake
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one it's too short and then the eyelet
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on the fakes have extra ridges so those
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are the things you can look for and you
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can also look at the tongue here the
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tongue usually like on them if you look
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at the fake ones these liner here is
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crooked again it's not even just like on
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the authentic on the authentic is really
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nice well done and the carbon fiber
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shanks on the fake one sometimes it
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could be black and white so you might
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want to check that out
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and this is pretty much it for this shoe
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now as far as the box is concerned
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i don't think there's anything that i
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want to talk about it doesn't have any
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kind of sticker on it but
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for legit checking if you look at this
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here if you rub your fingers on this
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rfid identifier you see there's a little
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bump here that's because if you reap the
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label behind it is the chip this is how
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they track this sneaker so this is a way
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you can check to see if your your shoes
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authentic now usually the shoes that
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come from overseas they don't have the
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msrp sticker but in this case
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nike asked most of foot locker employees
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and finish line employees or any
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retailers employee to to rip the labels
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so this this shouldn't be a good way to
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like authenticate your shoe don't look
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at this here you may want to rip the
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label to see if that that the behind the
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label you have that chip okay
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and this is pretty much it man like the
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shoe looks incredible it's an amazing
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sneaker you can't go wrong with this
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player of twelves i mean it's a great
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great looking shoe okay one more thing
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on the fake ones the 23 is too small and
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the red is not really
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flamboyant it's not really shiny on the
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fake one is flat okay and again on the
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fake one it's not glossy on the quarter
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panel the quarterfinal is pretty flat is
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matte color so you want to check that
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out make sure this is glossy on your on
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your pair to make sure you're
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authenticated and then again the plastic
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tab you're supposed to be silver on the
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fake is great so that's all i wanted to
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tell you today again if you want to grab
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your size 13 i will have a link for you
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in the description again thanks for
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watching this is ty from master kicks
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