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This week’s Eastbay Memory Lane post takes a look into the basketball catalog from 1996. Featuring a handful of Nike Basketball athletes like Penny Hardaway, Jason Kidd, Reggie Miller, Lisa Leslie and of course Scottie Pippen. Of course the Nike Air More Uptempo that recently came back in retro form was one of the highlights of the catalog. However, how many people remember the little brother to the Air More Uptempo, the Air Much Uptempo?
Flipping through a couple more pages would have landed you at another unforgettable sneaker from Nike Basketball, the Zoom Flight 96 most commonly tied to Jason Kidd. The Nike Air Flight 96, featuring styling similar to the Zoom Flight may also stir some memories with its heel Air unit and Phylon midfoot cushioning, it made its way onto the feet of teams from every level of play from grade school up to the pros.
Check out some of the pages from the 1996 Basketball catalog below.
Damon “Mighty Mouse” Stoudemire. He was THAT dude at my school in 96.
Was smokin as tough then as he did in the League?!?!
why is everyone so squished…is that how the catalog actually looked?
bbaum – the site probably compressed the picture or the scan.
I was 7/8 years old back then. Not even a person who knew any of these people except for Scottie.
I use to watch Chi games every so often.
I was a freshman in HS, boy those were the days! Sigh….none of these releases will ever be the same.
I think I owned every shoe on these pages. I especially remember the Air Flight Mids. I had the black/royal/white ones (a Finish Line exclusive). Memories…
the glory days of bball…
O.o I need to look into these, it was the year I was born
doesnt get much better than pippen and reggie. i miss seeing him at all the pacers games i went to :/ he was what made me love basketball
The pages were scanned. I do love back in the day when the catalogs were with less pages but HUGE pictures on the upcoming shoes that were to release that catalog month. I remember taking the Eastbay Catalog to school and showing it to my friends. They would all fight over to see what heat was to drop. By COB the catalog was all ripped. But I still had the SKU #.
Agreed with nimit … ah the glory days! đŸ™‚
Penny in OG Orlando pinstripes, awesome!!
@teemasuoka @Niko
LOL. Wow. Can you make me feel any older?