We've chronicled Nike Basketball's trip nike air force 1 high back through the past twenty years over these past couple weeks and today we encounter the design that's made more of an impact on the last few years than any other on the list. The Nike Air Foamposite One debuted in 1997 after a product meeting with Penny Hardaway left the star of the Air Max Penny 1 and II with absolute certainty that "This [was his] next shoe!" In fact, the Air Foamposite One was a Penny 2.5 of sorts, heavily influencing the III and taking cues from the wavy-lined predecessors.

Since 1992, Nike Basketball has created an endless library of masterpieces that perfectly blended art, design, and function using world-class technology and engineering. Over the next twenty days leading nike air force 1 high top up to the 2012 Olympic Basketball Semi-Final, Nike Basketball will revisit twenty awe-inspiring pairs selected from the last two decades in a mini-feature titled  20 Designs The Changed The Game  , and it begins today with the Nike nike air force 1 mens Air Force 180 Low. The Nike Air Force 180 Low was introduced in 1992 and was built for the ground-and-pound aspect of basketball and made for players like Charles Barkley in mind.

The Nike Air Max 360 Basketball changed the game for explosive players and moved us toward models like LeBrons 7 and 8 with a completely uncaged cushion, and you can see plenty of sketches and early photos after the jump below. We're getting close to our current point in history, so stick nike air force 1 sale with Sneaker News for the last few days of this feature and let us know which is your favorite Nike Basketball design of all time.

While the game of basketball was certainly evolving into a faster, up-and-down game, there was still a player who earned his paycheck with his back to the basket and under the boards. Max Air was always the platform for those athletes who appreciated some assistance on their return to terra firma. In basketball, footwear has to accommodate a 200-plus pound athlete with upwards of 2,000 pounds of force on his feet upon landing. That's some serious force.

While it was 25 years in the making, the original Nike Air Max 360 Air Sole was created for the running category. Behind the scenes, a brief to apply a variation of the Nike Air Max 360's running bag to a basketball shoe created multiple challenges. Engineers scrutinized the nike air force 1 white cage to evolve it from linear movement to the lateral movement demands of basketball. Pillar placement necessitated extra alterations as well in order to ensure support where it mattered.

Today's chapter in the Nike Basketball history book is a discussion of one of many models that makes 1995-96 arguably the best season on record, but this story has its nexus somewhere between the 1992 Air Raid and Air Max2 CB '94 posts that preceded it. Draft Day '93 introduced the entire world to Anfernee  Penny' Hardaway , a brilliant oversized [url=http://www.carnevalepadova.com/nike-air-force-1-white-p-1413.html][img]http://www.carnevalepadova.com/images/detail/nike-point guard from the then-relatively unheralded University of Memphis.