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Quick History Of Jason kidd's Nike Air Zoom Flight 95 + Buy It now
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Feb 19, 2025
In today’s sneaker climate, it seems as if every celebrity or professional athlete have their own signature shoe line with a major athletic company. Back in the early 1990s, NBA superstar Jason Kidd was one of the first players to receive his own signature sneakers from Nike. His Zoom Air Flight 95s were a hit with basketball fans and sneakerheads alike, and remain a popular choice among collectors to this day. In this post, we’ll take a look at the history of Jason Kidd’s Nike Zoom Air Flight 95 sneakers. Buy it now, see link below https://housakicks.com/basketball-shoes/quick-history-of-jason-kidds-nike-air-zoom-flight-95-buy-it-now/
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what's going on guys uh today we're
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gonna talk about jason kidd's 1995 air
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zoom flight all right now the basketball
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if you're a basketball fan and you grew
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up in the 90s and this is a shoe that
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you could definitely relate to
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like in today's sneaker climate it seems
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as if
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every celebrity or professional athlete
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have their own sneaker shoe line with a
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major
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athletic company but back in the early
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90s like the nba
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had like some pretty pretty marquee
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players like michael jordan was already
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dominating but jason kidd had just come
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into the picture so he was one of the
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first players to receive his own
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signature shoes from nike like now you
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have like guys like paul george you have
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guys like uh yeah anissa tenta and kumpu
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and you have other guys that have their
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own signatures but back in the early 90s
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you kind of have to like you kind of had
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to be a great a player or a prom a
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player that was promising and jason kidd
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coming into the league was just that
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so
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the zoom flight 95 were hit with
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basketball fans and sneaker heads alike
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so for me i grew up in like togo that's
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in west africa a french speaking country
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and access to like sneakers like this
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was like restricted because there was no
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instagram there was no facebook there
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was no social media outlets so the only
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time that we had access to like these
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sneakers was through magazines and that
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was just a monthly thing that you did so
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it wasn't like you could just go
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anywhere and just get access and see the
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sneakers but when we saw sneakers like
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this we were drooling all over them and
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we just were so ecstatic but we could
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never get access to it but like in togo
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we did have a secondhand market so
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basically you couldn't get the shoes
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brand new but you could still get the
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shoes but on a second hand market they
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were used and they were probably sent
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over from overseas from people that had
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used it and had no use for it anymore so
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we actually
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uh you know how people say somebody
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else's trash is somebody else's like
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treasure this is the kind of idea behind
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it so we actually went to those places
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to get those sneakers and they were
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actually expensive because the currency
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exchange for us growing up in a third
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world country it was expensive so i
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didn't my first pair of basketball
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sneakers that i covered it was a d brown
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uh reebok uh pumps and i couldn't even
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buy the sneaker so this is how body was
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back then you know so coming here and
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seeing all these today is it's
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crazy how now kids just get whatever
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they want i know i sound like an old
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dude and and like cliche but it is true
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it's a reality so basically back to the
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story
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like uh jason kidd was the reigning uh
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pac-10 player of the year when the
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dallas mavericks selected him with the
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second overall pick
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in an nba draft in 1994
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and that season man he was killing it he
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averaged uh 11.7 points a game
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5.4 assist and 7.7 rebounds per game as
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a rookie
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but then he was unable to lead on the
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mavericks to the playoffs that season
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and in that same season he was voted uh
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nba rookie of the year alongside
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grant
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hill now i don't know if you know about
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grant hill when dude was a beast coming
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out of duke man shooting guards more
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forward with an ability to just push the
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pace he could drive the basket he could
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shoot it he could i mean he was just
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dominating dunking on people coming to
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detroit pistons man he was a beast but
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then ankle injuries kind of
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sidelined him a little bit but man grant
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hill coming out of duke you couldn't
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stop him i mean he had pretty much
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everybody unlocked he could just
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dominate any given time so jason kidd
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was nba rookie of the year alongside
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grant hill and he appeared in his first
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all-star game in san antonio the
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following year at that time nike nike
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already had like michael jordan as a top
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signee but the brand was also
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recognizing jason kidd as another and
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bright athlete who could be a sales
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catalyst for the business in terms of
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like basketball sneakers basically they
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saw him and they go hey we need to get
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this guy on the payroll because we know
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he's going to be able to sell some
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sneakers this will kick him ball and
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jason kidd was that good
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so
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one of the things that must remain in
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the back of our minds when we think
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about the 90s is that that was
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basketball golden age i don't care what
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anybody says and i know i'm being pious
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but i grew up in that time but the bulls
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were on top and being able to put on a
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pair of sneakers signature sneaker was
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linked with being one with the athletes
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at least in our heads that's what we
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thought so reselling wasn't the target
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okay so the back story and the narrative
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behind the sneaker was important and
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most of the players at the time came
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from like lowly circumstances so it
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allowed the fans most of the friends to
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identify with them so that's mainly why
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basketball sneakers were like confident
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it's because you could you could
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identify with a player because he grew
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up from humble circumstances and we had
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the same kind of upbringing so it was
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easy to identify with the players it's
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not like today where you have a lot of
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former nba players um
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former nba players and children playing
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basketball so it wasn't like that in the
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90s you still had like the
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the whole hey i came from home
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beginnings and now i made it into the
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league so you can identify without with
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that kind of story
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so
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being that nike offered and jason kidd
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the zoom flight 95 when he shared the
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rookie of the year honors with grant
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hill during the
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1994-1995 season and this was the first
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shoe to incorporate nike's full-length
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zoom air cushioning system which was
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like delivering basically outstanding
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comfort and responsiveness he was a
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great uh sneaker now given that jason
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kidd was a point guard the shoe was
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largely designed for speed so the carbon
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fiber synthetic materials were used in
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the office for lightness and durability
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and the zoom air unit was just crazy
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comfortable so it was one of the best
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cushioning system that nike ever came up
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with nike ever came up with so the shoe
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also had like massive pods on the sides
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to give it like stability and grip nike
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didn't trade like style for performance
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when it came to the shoe the aesthetic
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like screams the 90s and all of the
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sentimental memories that come with this
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sneaker so there are several colorways
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of the zoom flight 95 that will release
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over the past like 10 years but there is
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nothing like the original colorway which
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i'll show you in a minute you can see
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the picture
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and this is the picture of a shoe that
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dropped on the the colorway that dropped
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in 1995. so because of the side bubbles
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that you see the zoom flight 95 has like
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a lot of nicknames some people call it
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bug eyes and grasshoppers but nike also
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dropped like several other colorways
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including some pe's and there's one that
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came in like 2000 i think in the uh
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mid-2000 uh it was the red one and it
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had like jason king number five on it it
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came in a red and yellow colorway so
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those were just some of the pe that came
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out so
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the zoom 95 actually it was last a scene
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in 2015
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but for his 20th anniversary it would
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return again on in 2022 so i'm not sure
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what the date is going to be but the
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shoe nike is trying to bring back like
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the original colorway you know uh the
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the brand has been talking about the
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edit to amplify basically giving the
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people that what they want and the 90s
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are like now trending so the brand is
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going back to to
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dig into their archives and then get
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some of the sneakers that they know
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people are going to go crazy for
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so the color palette is black white and
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metallic silver and it has a black and
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nubuck upper and a on on on his uppers
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and he has a carbon fiber materials
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covering the panels and white zoom rings
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that go from the midsole to the side to
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the side wall okay so the design again
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is complete completely um completed by
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zoom air cushioning switch grinding at
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the ankle length tool and a traditional
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lace-up clasp so that's basically what
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you're gonna get so the shoes coming out
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we will find out when but in the
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meantime if you want to grab it now i'll
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have a link for you in the description
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again thanks for watching this is ty
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from asset kicks and stay tuned for more
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