Sole Provider: Thirty Years of Nike Basketball First Edition UNOPENED Hardcover

Sole Provider Thirty Years of Nike Basketball by Robert "Scoop" Jackson PowerHouse Books First Edition Hardcover BRAND NEW UNOPENED 9x8x1 Plastic Wrapping still intact Printed In 2002 Collectors Item Sports / Fashion / Urban Hardcover, 215 pages Designed with Nike’s trademark visually gripping graphics, Sole Provider: Thirty Years of NIKE Basketball is a collection of Nike hoop shoes and the subculture that surrounds them. Text by Slam magazine editor-at-large Robert “Scoop” Jackson, Sole Provider gives the inside story of NIKE Basketball – from its inception in 1972 to its incredible success as the basketball brand with over 60% market share. Featuring anecdotal facts and figures, inside interviews with NBA players, Nike footwear designers, musicians, and other pop-culture notables, Sole Provider showcases the historical context of the game with exclusive images from Nike’s archives: posters, print advertisements, commercial stills, behind-the-scenes footage, NBA photos, and never-before-published images. Features spreads that illustrate the development of the most pivotal shoes during this period, as well as interviews with designers and drawings of their prototypes; Features the key shoes and the players associated with them including: The Blazer (George “Iceman” Gervin), The Bruin (Moses Malone), The Air Force I (Michael Ray Richardson), The Air Jordan (Michael Jordan), The Alpha Force (Charles Barkley), and many more.