Air Jordans-famous rules the athletic shoe industry and also the hearts of millions of other people. Bold and Beautiful, these two words perfectly describe the Jordan shoes. History tells us that Nike's Air Jordan owes it's popularity to the famous basketball player Michael Jordan. Though Nike was not a preferred brand by Michael Jordan, he gave Nike's idea to launch a new series of shoes called Air Jordan a try. After a meet with the top officials of Nike he decided to endorse this brand. The rest is of course history. Nike flouted the conventional trend of white shoes for basketball by coming up with bold red and black colors for its shoes. Nike created various versions of the same brand and each version was different from the previous one. First Air Jordan also known as AJ-1 was launched in the year 1985. There are total of 21 versions of the Air Jordan Shoes. The AJ-3 was a revolutionary shoe as it had a visible air unit at its heel. The sales of this particular version when first retroed was poor but later when re-retroed it went up.

The price of these shoes is as high as $300, which is truly a lot of money. The AJ-3 was Michael Jordan's favorite ones. Latest version AJ-21 was released in 2006 in red, black and white colors costing $175. You have to pay an extra $5 for suede color way. Interestingly many new varieties of the Air Jordan shoes are lined up for release in the year 2007. Many of you may be waiting for the release of Jordan 5 Black/Metallic Silver with bated breath. Well your wait will end on 18th January 2007, which is its release date.

Many of you want to own a pair of Air Jordan shoes but finding one, which matches your style posed a difficulty, right? But not any more, because there are so many online stores which sell used, new, rare, and many other varieties of these shoes that you have great choices. You have to select the one which you want, which matches your taste and also your pocket. You can own an Air Jordan and you don't have to spend a lot of time for that. Isn't that simply great?

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