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Throwback Thursday: Nike Air Zoom Generation L.A. All-Star PE »

If you ask LeBron James, which shoe in the Nike LBJ series is his favorite he will most likely say “gotta be the first one” or something in that manner. That was the answer for me when I submitted the question via the Nike Air Max LeBron VII Media Summit webcast back in August. Who wouldn’t be nostalgic about your first signature shoe, especially when you got one at the age of 18 years old! The Nike Air Zoom Generation was a perfect way to start things off. The shoes were rather safe… I wouldn’t like to ball in them nowadays, but there’s definitely more to it than plain design and decent ballin’ kicks. Even people at Nike were surprised with how well the AZG’s aka LeBron I’s were received by fans. The release of James’ shoe was the company’s most successful shoe launch in two years, surpassing that of the Jordan XVII and XVIII. At Finish Line, which at the moment of release had 541 stores across the country, 75 percent of their total nationwide allotment of James’ Air Zoom Generations were sold out in the first week of sales in late December (via ESPN). The initial release of LBJ’s shoe, in the black and white, has sold more than 100,000 pairs to date. Too bad the colorway you see below – the All-Star edition – never made it to public. It almost did, but just in the last minuted Nike pulled them off once they leanrt he didn’t make the squad. He was fourth in fan voting among guards in the Eastern Conference, but didn’t get voted in by the coaches. Couple nice pics after the break.

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5 Responses to “Throwback Thursday: Nike Air Zoom Generation L.A. All-Star PE”

1. jerome on 29 Oct 2009 at 10:48 pm | permalink | quote me i wished they’d release it again… From Philippines Using Mozilla Firefox 3.5.4 on Windows Vista

2. tomas on 30 Oct 2009 at 11:54 am | permalink | quote me they never did…i wish they hadnt put the existing shoes in shredders… Greg why did you have to remind me of my list! From United States Using Mozilla Firefox 3.0.14 on Windows Vista

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4. UGK4Life on 02 Nov 2009 at 8:58 pm | permalink | quote me why were pairs shredded again? -Tyler From United States Using Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows XP

5. Throwback Thursday: Nike Air Zoom Generation “Playoff” PE | NIKE LEBRON - LeBron James - News | Shoes | Basketball on 25 Feb 2010 at 5:26 pm | permalink | quote me [...] feed of the hype, requires a lot of advanced planning. That’s why sometimes there’s an All-Star Game shoe being made when it shouldn’t drop. Also, as it happened with the Soldier III, the Finals [...] From Poland Using WordPress 2.9

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