![Size 9.5 Nike Air Jordan 1 Mid Hyper Royal [554724 077] FAST SHIPPING](https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/g/pfMAAOSwV9RlOMLB/s-l300.jpg)
About the Air Jordan 1 Mid 'Hyper Royal'
The Air Jordan 1 is the sneaker that started it all, marking the beginning of the most iconic lineage of sneakers in history. In many ways, it's responsible for launching modern-day sneaker culture as a whole—and it almost didn't happen.
History of Air Jordan 1
As the story goes, the year was 1984, and Chicago Bulls' rookie Michael Jordan was a hot commodity for endorsement deals, with sneakers naturally being paramount.
Jordan had just come off a stellar college basketball season at the University of North Carolina. He wore Converse and was a personal fan of Adidas, so he took meetings with both companies, but they never reached a deal. It seems strange today, but at the time, Michael Jordan hated Nike—so much so that he refused to take a meeting with them.
He was persuaded by his mother, Deloris Jordan, to visit the Nike campus in Oregon and listen to their pitch. His plan was to go through the motions to appease his parents and agent but he ultimately left with a contract unlike any other.
Rather than walking in the shadows of established athletes like Magic Johnson and Larry Bird (which may have been the case had he signed elsewhere), Michael Jordan shone in the Nike limelight. He was paid more than any other athlete with a sneaker endorsement at the time. Nike made him the face of its growing presence in basketball, and gave him his own sneaker line—called Air Jordan.
Air Jordan 1 Mid 'Hyper Royal'
With a design that throws back to the OG Jordan 1 Royal first released back in 1985, these blue, black, and white Jordans support a mid-top design and classic royal blue overlays. While leather covers the upper, Nike branding can be seen with the Swoosh on both sides of the foot and the Jordan Wings logo on the outer side of the foot. A white rubber outsole surrounds the foot from the bottom, and matching white stitching details go all the way around the midsole. Topping it all off is the classic Air technology in the black rubber sole.
