ESPN did what it had to with The Last Dance, and now VICE is delving into the subculture that Jordan influenced when he took over the sports world– sneakers.
The documentary is titled One Man and His Shoes and will get into how, before MJ’s ascent, basketball sneakers were more of a necessity than a sense of personal style or performance.
But when Jordan came into the league and dropped his first signature sneaker in 1985, the world took notice and wanted to be like Mike.
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Vice plans to get into that as well with the trailer showing tearful parents and community leaders pleading with Nike to make the sneakers more readily available, so violence won’t be so prevalent in their communities.
Namely, the Joshua Woods case, who was killed in 2012 when three men followed him from a Texas Mall, where he’d just bought a pair of limited-release Bred Air Jordan 11s, and killed him after taking the sneakers.