MJ REMASTERED DIAMOND SHORT

Essential? Always. Basic? Hardly. It can be all too easy to take a brand with the kind of global reach that Air Jordan has for granted. The iconic Jumpman logo is the kind of thing that a person will see with consistent regularity, especially now that the staples of sportswear, sweats, tees, hoodies, basketball shorts, etc, are long established cornerstones of contemporary fashion; it would be functionally impossible to keep track of all the Jordan that the average person sees over a given time period. Still, no matter how many Jumpman logos are spotted in the wild, it just feels wrong to refer to “Jordan basics.” Basics are a perfectly executed pick and roll from the playbook; basics are a perfectly executed jump shot follow through. While it’s very obvious that MJ had completely mastery of the basics, just ask Craig Ehlo or the Jazz, he didn’t get the nickname Air, didn’t become the embodiment of basketball during the course of his career because of the basics. Very few kids have ev