words & images // Zack Schlemmer
You may not know the player, but you probably know the shoe. The first card in this week's collection is Byron Hanspard in the Nike Air Pro Streak Max. This classic turf/training shoe's design features a large mid-foot strap in the carbon fiber checker pattern just like the popular Zoom Flight '95 basketball shoe. Byron Hanspard played college football at Texas Tech and won the Doak Walker Award as the best running back in college football in 1996. Unfortunately his NFL carreer was cut short due to a knee injury after his solid rookie season for the Atlanta Falcons in 1997. Because of his injury in 1998's training camp he only managed to play one more year in the NFL during the 1999 season.
Next up is an outstanding Skybox basketball card with all three members of RUN-TMC: the run-n-gun, high scoring trio for the Golden State Warriors of Tim Hardaway, Mitch Richmond, and Chris Mullin. We see Tim and Mitch both in adidas, before their days with Nike and Jordan Brand, and Chris in the NIke Air Flight '89. (Also, all three are wearing some pretty nice "Warriors" socks.)
This week's third card is Grant Hill in his fourth FILA signature model, the GH4 which released in 1997. To finish out the week we have Indiana Pacer point guard in the mid 90's player-favorite Nike Air Wayup and Ron Harper in the Nike Air Swift. This same Bulls colorway of the Air Swift was also worn by Scottie Pippen during his famous monster dunk over Patrick Ewing.
Have a favorite in this week's collection? As usual, drop a comment below.
Byron Hanspard -- Nike Air Pro Streak Max
Run TMC -- Adidas and Nike Air Flight '89
Grant Hill -- FILA GH4
Travis Best -- Nike Air Wayup
Ron Harper -- Nike Air Swift
