• SLAM Kicks: Basketball Sneakers that Changed the Game Book
  
• Edited by Ben Osborne, Contribution by Scoop Jackson and Russ Bengtson and John Brilliant and Lang Whitaker
• SKU: UN-SLAM-KICKS-OS

The definitive primer on the world’s most popular shoe: the basketball sneaker. Basketball shoes have a long and storied history both on and off the court. Back in the 1930s, a basketball sneaker was created for straight-up performance. Today, hoops footwear do double duty: they’re designed for and by elite players, but to sneakerheads, how they look is nearly as important as how they perform. SLAM Kicks breaks down the path of the basketball sneaker, from the birth of the very first iconic shoe, the Converse Chuck Taylor All-Star, to the white-hot best-selling cultural-phenomenon Nike Air Jordan sneaker line.