Nike Basketball 1992-2012: Twenty Designs That Changed The Game

Nike Basketball has been playing around with a game of one-upsmanship with itself over the last two decades, redefining the perfect basketball shoe with heroic innovations and audacious designs. It’s been an entertaining and lengthy tale of Nike outdoing Nike, and from 1992 with the original 180-degree Air Unit to 2012′s revolutionary Nike Hyperdunk Sport Pack, Nike has served up twenty iconic basketball models that changed the game and rerouted the future paths of all that encapsulated basketball footwear. With 2012 serving as the 20th Anniversary of the original USA Olympic Dream Team, Nike celebrated the last two decades by re-telling twenty scintillating stories of Nike Basketball; you may not realize that Nike already began this crusade with the celebrated releases of the Nike Air Force 180, Air More Uptempo, Shox BB4, and Huarache 2K4, but prepare yourself for a history lesson that no brand has ever attempted before. Beginning Monday, July 23rd, Nike Basketball introduced one iconic model a day up until the 2012 Olympic Basketball Semi-Finals on August 11th. Check below for all twenty designs of Nike Basketball 1992-2012 and read up on all the necessary history.

Nike Air Force 180 Low (1992) Designer: Scott McDonald

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Nike Air Flight Huarache (1992) Designer: Tinker Hatfield, Eric Avar

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Nike Air Raid (1992) Designer: Tinker Hatfield, Mark Smith

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Nike Air Max2 CB (1994) Designer: Tracy Teague

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Nike Air Penny (1995) Designer: Eric Avar

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Nike Air Swoopes (1996) Designer: Marni Gerber

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Nike Air More Uptempo (1996) Designer: Wilson Smith

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Nike Air Foamposite One (1997) Designer: Eric Avar

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Nike Air Flightposite (1999) Designer: Eric Avar

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Nike Shox BB4 (2000) Designer: Eric Avar

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Nike Air Hyperflight (2001) Designer: Eric Avar

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Nike Zoom Generation (2003) Designer: Aaron Cooper

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Nike Zoom Ultraflight (2003) Designer: Aaron Cooper, Eric Avar

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Nike Air Zoom Huarache 2k4 (2004) Designer: Eric Avar

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Nike Air Max 360 Basketball (2006) Designer: Tracy Teague

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Nike Air Zoom Hyperdunk (2008) Designer: Eric Avar

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Nike Zoom Kobe IV (2008) Designer: Eric Avar

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Nike Zoom Hyperfuse (2010) Designer: Leo Chang

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Nike Zoom KD IV (2011) Designer: Leo Chang

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Nike Lunar Hyperdunk+ (2012) Designer: Eric Avar, Leo Chang, Tracy Teague