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There are Air Jordan 2.0 and 8.0s and those are the offspring of the Alpha 1, but if you ask Jordan Brand for an Alpha 3, you’ll get something entirely different. Though to be fair, the Jordan Alpha 3 Percent is indeed in keeping with the Alpha AJ1′s premise, as it upgrades a classic Jumpman silhouette with cutting edge performance technology. But interestingly enough, the original 3% was not a basketball shoe, but rather a cross-trainer, this new black and Stealth colorway one of those simple pleasures that’d look good on the shoe no matter its intended purpose. Click through to see some more angles and pick up a pair of ‘Blackout’ Alpha 3%s at FinishLine.
Jordan Alpha 3 Percent
Black/Stealth-Black
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Most of the sport-turned-something models we’ve seen in recent years have applied a casual touch to some of our favorite classic releases, but this one is a pure bred performance-oriented shift. The Jordan Alpha 3 Percent picks up where 1999′s 3% trainer left off, adding a Max Air cushion to the heel along with a revamped texture on the midsole tooling, this white, grey and gold colorway sufficiently neutral to match pretty much anything you could combine. Click through to see some more angles and look for these at JB retailers like FinishLine.
Jordan Alpha 3 Percent
White/Flight Gold-Stealth-Black
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While it’s not unheard of to take a turf trainer and adapt it to basketball purposes (the Nike Zoom Don comes to mind), it’s more common to see a kid wearing trainers on-court than to see designers create a full-on crossover. So that’s a big part of what makes the Jordan Alpha 3 Percent special, a model based on the 3 Percent turf shoe that hit retailers in 1999, and one that we saw Mike Bibby wearing in the Miami Heat backcourt during the 2011 NBA Playoffs. This pair pictured above is the same colorway Bibby was pictured wearing in away games in our NBA Feet column, and now you can grab them from select Jordan Brand retailers like FinishLine or get your pair on eBay.
Jordan Alpha 3 Percent
Black/Varsity Red-White
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