Michael Jordan's Untold New Balance Story

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🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Did you know Michael Jordan wore New Balances in the original photo that inspired his famous Jumpman pose? Joe Freshgoods celebrated that 1984 moment on his latest New Balance collaboration, which cohosts Joe La Puma, Brendan Dunne, and Matt Welty discuss here. They also react to the incoming Powerpuff Girls set of Nike SB Dunks, which may or may not be a totally unnecessary collaboration. Elsewhere in the episode, the cohosts react to Rihanna’s rekindled Puma deal, the merits of the reimagined black/red Air Jordan 4, and the uselessness of SNKRS Day.

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody? It's Joel LaPuma. You were listening. You were watching the
0:04.4	Complex Sneaker show as always. I'm joined by my two friends, my two co-hosts,
0:08.0	first off to my right. Mr. Matt Melty.
0:12.0	Mr. Matt Welty. Here we are.
0:14.0	Matt Melty.
0:16.0	To my left, Mr. Brendan Dunn. There's no way he was melted in the summer because
0:20.5	he was riding around with so much mesh on his toes. He's still even.
0:24.9	Little still doing it. It was it was a it was a big week for the mesh boys. It was. It was even though
0:30.9	the bill's lost. Are we hopping right into that? Sure. Yeah, why not? Okay, Welty,
0:36.4	please tell us why it was a big week for the mesh boys. Friend of the show. Mr. Mr.
0:41.5	Mosh sneaker a customizer to the stars. Yes. He he's been a Stefan Diggs.
0:50.1	Stefan Diggs has been his athlete that he makes a client. Yeah.
0:54.8	Shoes for weekend and week out. Yeah. He talked about it on here.
0:59.0	And as we know, Stefan Diggs signed a contract A6 in the off season. A6 obviously having
1:05.5	big moment within sneaker world now. A6 doesn't make cleats.
1:12.4	And we were wondering how that was going to pan out. Right. In terms of him signing a deal,
1:17.2	him being an NFL athlete, them not actually having performance shoes for NFL athletes.
1:21.2	I think they make soccer cleats. Yeah. So what I saw was is that he made a custom pair of
1:26.0	cleats, but they're a Nike vapor base. So it's the Nike cleat. But the upper is a A6 2160.
1:34.1	Let me tell you something. I sell real quick. Mosh. I think those are my favorite cleats you
1:39.2	ever made. I said it last night. I think 2160 upper. Actually, I think he said in the caption
1:44.4	that it was a A6 soccer cleat on the bottom. Okay. Yeah. Not he had said on he had made another
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