today we're going to be talking about a shoe that i waited 10 years to get because it took me so
long to get the shoe i ended up getting lucky and it actually saved me a couple thousand dollars so
if you guys didn't know by now my name is dj and this is the dna show as you can see right
here this is the nike lebron 8 box and this is actually a sneaker that retro or you could say
release for the first time and what shoe am i talking about i'm talking about the nike lebron
8 hardwood classic wow this sneaker was extremely soft after when we saw lebron with these and ever
since that day the shoe had always been going for a few thousand dollars now before i get into the
styles cuts and materials of the sneaker we got to talk about the history first because there
is a lot of nostalgia behind this shoe so let's take it back to 10 years ago and talk about the
beginning of the prime era of nike basketball we saw the nike lebron 7 the lebron eight following
that the nine and the ten and obviously that is a very nostalgic time for a lot of people that were
heavy into lebron or nike basketball sneakers in general we had kobe lebron and kd sneakers going
crazy selling out each and every release with dope collaborations and fire gr releases as well we saw
lebron rocking the hardwood classic lebron sevens on court and i will never forget that
day i remember him rocking the mismatch joints the orange on one foot the blue on the other it
looks so fire with the white patent leather oh my gosh that was a good time now a lot of people
know lebron played for the cleveland cavaliers but this was the hardwood classic edition kicking it
back to 1987 with the old school cavaliers jerseys because of that you saw colors like royal blue and
orange being more dominant in their uniforms and that gave lebron an opportunity to switch
it up with the colorway on his shoes the hardwood classic lebron sevens are another set of pe's that
i would love to have in my collection but i'm just not trying to pay thousands of dollars for them
we did see some talks in 2020 about the royal blue suede alternate version that we saw lebron rocking
off court those were supposed to come out in 2020 i seen some stuff about it i don't even know if
they came out or not if they did drop a comment down below i tried to look them up on stockx
just to see if there was pairs available because i would love to have that pair as well but i didn't
even see any sizes with ask or bids so that's kind of a whole other topic and a whole nother
venture of me tracking down that sneaker but back on topic going to 2011 lebron started to make his
transition as a miami heat player then we saw the south beach lebron eights and then we saw some
crazy dope samples when we're talking about svsems dj clark kent denim lebron eights there were three
different hardwood classic lebron eights that we saw surface on the internet there was a white and
blue pair we saw the orange v2 pair and then we saw this pair right here and following that same
height from 2010 with the hardwood classic lebron sevens it was the same exact demand and it caused
the pes to go up crazy in value and a lot of people thought it would be a sneaker that they
would never own in their collection during the time from 2010 to 2014 there was a lot of hype
when it came to nike basketball and i'm telling you right now people were dropping racks on
lebrons the nike basketball hype slowly started to go down as kobe lebron and kd got older in their
careers and they started to drop new models that a lot of people just didn't really like as much
if you were already collecting or started collecting during that time i'm pretty sure you
can attest to those memories drop a comment down below and let me know some of your favorite times
and sneakers from that early 2010 era so coming back to current time now this is 2022 but this
shoe actually released in 2021 which is a 10 year anniversary of the nike lebron 8 which is part of
the reason why we saw nike lebron eighth retroing last year and i'm not going to be surprised if we
see lebron nines dropping this year now let's dive a little bit deeper into this shoe and talk about
the styles cuts materials everything like that and i do have a photo for you guys of the ogpe
with these side-by-side against them i don't have them in hand but that way later in the video i can
show you guys the differences from the pe and the gr version that we got to the public starting with
the outsole you have your orange outsole with the blue and the white pods here and the center of the
foot going up to the midsole you got a full length air unit right here one thing that makes the nike
lebron 8 extremely comfortable and a lot of people love hooping in this shoe again partially why a
lot of people love this era going along with that when it comes to the orange air unit you also have
a blue speckle right there on the bubble and then going to the midsole you have a white midsole and
then onto the upper one of the best pieces of this shoe the materials this has a very nice blue suede
right here with the flywire hits on the back and the side end of the foot and then the lebron lion
on the tongue and the shoe and patent leather there's so many iconic pieces to this model that
makes the lebron 8 so dope and this is honestly a shoe that i thought i might have just never had
owned in my collection but i had always wanted these ended up retailing at 200 and the fact
that the shoe was going for multiple thousands of dollars and i was able to purchase these for below
retail is just blowing my mind and that's why i say i was able to save a couple thousand dollars
because at one point i was willing to spend that money to get the shoe luckily i didn't pull the
trigger and it's almost starting to make me more cautious about the future releases when it comes
to lebron sneaker and because lebron has been in the nba for over 47 years it makes a lot of sense
47 years i was like wait what 47 years i don't know i'm just messing with y'all but he's been
in the league for almost 20 years now and is at the point now where you can start to see his shoes
retroing and having anniversaries and some people are saying why is lebron retro and his sneakers
he's still in the nba he shouldn't be doing that and it's actually funny that people are saying
that because if you think back michael jordan was releasing retros of his sneakers as he was still
in the league think about it people were getting the air jordan ones 1994 editions you forgot about
that right remember those came out in 85 almost 10 years after we saw a retro just saying that's
all i'm saying so it definitely does make sense to me and i'm excited to be able to purchase a
shoe like this that is just like an all-time holy grail and and honestly the crazy thing to me out
of all of this is the fact that so many people are sleeping on it and i get it that was 10 years ago
we have a whole new generation of sneaker heads that are collecting but hopefully this video can
help you guys understand a little bit more about the history and the nostalgia and as
to why people wanted this shoe so bad back then and why they were so happy to go after it now
and why you could say some people think that the shoe is underappreciated and all those different
reasons but i think they did a great job on this shoe now looking at the og next to the retro you
can see there is a big difference when it comes to the blue carbon fiber kind of flywire area on the
shoe it's a lot more shiny it has that more of a metallic look to it and it just pops overall
throughout the rest of the shoe so let me know what you think down below in the comment section
when it comes to that do you like the new one more or do you like the old or more some people
like one over the other i would love to hear what you have to say now another thing that i
wanted to talk about before we ended the video was again like i said earlier just the overall demand
and appreciation for the sneaker i asked the poll on instagram to see what everybody else thinks if
you haven't already make sure you follow me on ig so you can participate in the polls and see
all the results here on the channel this is what i asked them is the shoe simply fire or is it trash
62 percent of the people chose fire and 38 of the people chose trash when i posted this poll i had
a strong feeling a lot of people weren't going to appreciate it simply because not everybody started
collecting back then and they might not know or remember that time and i completely understand
that but i already knew what was going to happen all my homies started dming me bruh they're crazy
how could they pick trash how could they pick trash i understand we lived through that time
so i know why this poll is what it is but i think if i were to post this poll 10 years ago
it would have been like 95 fire 5 trash but again it is what it is i think this is a shoe
that was very affordable and a lot of people that really wanted it was able to get it it
took me a little bit longer than i expected to get the shoe because i didn't want to pay the
resale value i waited for it to go down a little bit got them under retail and i'm a happy camper
so there's definitely some other lebron sevens and eights i plan on adding to my collection
or getting back that i had in the past that may have a little bit of separation and stuff and
that's why i got rid of all those different i'll tell you guys the story to those sneakers as well
in the future so i'm excited to show you guys this shoe and add it to my collection i love
these things so much i'm still honestly shocked that i was able to literally spend under 200
and get this shoe and if you guys made it this far into the video and you haven't already
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yo if you guys made it to the end of this video drop a comment down below and let me
know what is your favorite nike lebron 8 colorway of all time number one colorway
that's a hard one honestly i don't even know if i can answer that yeah i'll let y'all do that one
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