- What's going on, guys?
We're in my sneaker closet here, chilling.
I'ma show you some of my favorite kicks,
some of my favorite J's.
Talk PE's, talk Dior, talk Mag's, getting us some flavors.
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I'm Joe Haden and this is My Life In Sneakers.
My all-time great will be the Jordan XVIIs.
I'm a DMV guy.
Back in 2002 when Jordan was at the Wizards,
if you had the new J's coming to school,
you were the man.
And Jordan, he came out with these shoe case,
$200 pair of shoes.
I was just like, "I need these shoes, I want them so bad."
The day the shoes were coming out,
it was me and two of my homeboys from middle school.
We were at, they have one of our three parents bring us,
and they would come drop us off,
like, four o'clock in the morning, and we would camp out.
And they'll come pick us up around 10:00.
I was already into shoes, but I love this shoe.
And then Jordan was playing for the Wizards
so it all made sense.
I have so much love and respect for these shoes.
These are the 2002 releases, still, I haven't touched them.
I still got the peel off the back, suede,
the peel-off right here with the cover on it.
These were just so dope,
and then they came in the shoe case, it was just everything.
The shoe case is in the storage, gotta keep that stuff.
I have three of them, total unworn.
So I would definitely, probably wear one of them,
I'm gonna have one on ice forever.
My MVP, my player exclusive goes to these Jordan XIIs.
And being a football player, you know what I'm saying?
You don't really get the Jordan XII basketball shoes.
So, for MJ to make us the Jordan
that's a basketball shoe means a lot.
These are my babies.
Just feel it, this is a special shoe.
They're two of 18, they got the pig skin on it.
And these are definitely my favorite pair.
I don't think you will find these on StockX.
There's 18 pairs so I mean, if you do,
I don't know how you did it.
I love Jordan since I was growing up.
When I was in like 2015, 2016,
when I went from being signed with Nike
to be signed with Jordan,
I started first, getting this Jordan shipments.
We will get 30 pair of shoes a month.
We were getting all the PE, cleats, gloves, everything.
And that was unbelievable.
You can't really go back in time
and get Jordans that already came out,
you know, new release, they don't have like
a storage hold of Jordans.
It's more of the new release stuff.
So from this day forward, moving on,
when you're with Jordan,
you're not gonna miss out on anything.
We get the Jordan's a good month or two months
before they come out every month.
So it kinda was a blessing where I'm like,
not having to go wait on the line.
I got MJ sending mine's direct.
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My most expensive pair is my Marty McFly's.
These are the 2011 Marty McFly's.
They're not the self-lacing ones, but I got these.
I ended up getting them after market, second sale.
So I got them for like around six, $6,000.
I first heard about them, I think it was by 2010,
a year before they came out, people just talking about them.
And there were some pictures that was circulating.
I'm like, "Oh my god, when those come out,
"I have to have them."
They was just a shoe that it was lightened up in me.
It looked amazing.
It looked like a futuristic shoe,
it looked like it was from the movie.
So just knew it had, if you were a sneaker head,
you felt like you had to get it in collection, hopefully.
It was just super, super crazy shoes.
I've worn them, probably three times
I've only wearing them to the Cavs games on the floor,
during like the playoffs,
when they were playing the Golden State.
I just felt like that was the proper time to bust them out.
But these are some very, very, very dope, dope kicks.
I got them and they were gray and loved them to death.
But I think nobody has any black Marty McFly.
So I thought, "Why not just switch it up a little bit?"
My dude Kickasso Kustoms off of IG.
I've been working with him since 2010,
he's done a lot of shoes for me.
He killed these ones.
My dad, he was a dude that was really into Jordans and Nike.
So before I could even know what I was wearing,
I always had on pictures of like,
when he showed me when I was a kid,
I had on Nike's, I had on J's, you know.
I was collecting ever since, like,
when I was in the seventh grade, started collecting shoes.
Went to college, any extra money, anything I had,
I would put it towards shoes.
And then when I got drafted,
fortunate enough to make a couple of dollars, you know.
So I was like, you know what, why not me do something
that I really love, have a passion for
and want to get involved with.
So opened up my own shoe store, Restock in Cleveland
and had that for around three years.
And I'm involved in the StockX too.
So being involved with StockX and having a retail store,
it was kind of fighting against myself,
You know what I'm saying?
So I kind of let the store go,
but it was a great experience.
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My enforcer would have to be the AIR Max 97.
I have a lot of parodies just because they're white,
but I love the way they're all white AIR Max 97 looks.
So you can, it goes with everything.
It makes all your fits look fresh.
It's almost like a comfortable Air Force One.
I feel like I can just wear these all the time
and they just super-duper comfortable.
And these shoes are a go-to for me.
I think this is one of the shoes that's kind of,
not even that rare, not even that expensive.
I think everybody could go out and get this shoe.
But the thing that I love about this is just,
I don't know the look of it, the all white,
I think just the different levels.
It just smooth.
It looks clean and I don't know why, but it just, this shoe,
the shoe resonates with me for some reason.
1000% AIR Max 97, the all white,
these pairs are my favorite AIR Max's.
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So for the veteran, it's the OG Jordan 1
preferably the Dior one.
One of my top five shoes that I have.
The Jordan 1 is my probably my favorite Jordan 1s.
And Eleven's customized with Dior.
These are just, they're so sick,
you going with jeans, you going with whatever.
These ones are probably going for around 10,000 on StockX,
We only got the highs, I'm gonna purchase the lows,
I'm tryna find the right price.
These ones I didn't get earlier.
I got these ones probably right on time.
Probably when they came out,
actually I might got them a week, week later.
They, I still was like, I was hitting on my Jordan reps
"Heyo, are we going to be able to get the Dior's?"
They're like, "All right, we'll see,
"we'll see, we don't know"
So when they ended up sending them a week
after they came out, I was very excited about it.
Front part, they put the Dior AIR
they added AIR Dior on the side.
Then they put their signature Dior and the Nike sign.
And then on the bottom, they made it look really nice
when they put the Dior on the bottom here.
And then they got the AIR Dior on the bottom of the shoe.
Then the inside is where they show you the numbers,
6,693 out of 8,500.
- [Producer] And it's like a different leather right
Where like, it's made in Italy?
- Man, it feels like it, feels like it.
I just wore my Diors for the first time on a,
we play Sunday night football.
I was like, yeah, this is perfect game to wear it,
wore a nice little Dior's top, you know what I'm saying?
It's just putting fits with it.
Because at the end of the day,
it's all I started with the love of the shoe.
It wasn't for the flip the shoe or resell it
or to make the money, it was about being able
to just rock it like being able to be like,
"Oh man, those are dope shoes."
Like, you know what I'm saying?
It's all about that for me so I wear all my shoes.
I mean, I'm gonna keep some of them,
just to always have them.
Like when I say I'll keep the XVIIs stock,
I'll always have a pair, but, so I can wear them.
When I'm 50, 60, just have a new pair of XVIIs.
Hopefully they don't fall apart,
but just always wanting to just have them for later times.
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If I had to pick one shoe to wear for the rest of my life,
it'd be the Nike Yeezy 2s, the black ones, black Solars.
I don't know this is my, these are my favorite Yeezys
of all time, Adidas, Nike, anything.
They just super fresh.
I love the fact that like the glow in the dark,
when you're just chilling,
when you go to the club or anything,
you just won't even really won't even remember,
your shoes will be glowing, you got on the Yeezys.
So, I mean, they, they just look super nice to me.
They got the little back part,
they got the snake skin going right here.
I mean, these are beautiful.
So I mean the Yeezy two Solars favorite shoe,
if I had one shoe to wear for the rest of my life--
- [Producer] How much are they right now roughly?
- Probably 5, 6, 5, 5, 6,000. [cash register chimes]
They're my favorite.
They go to Solars, the Red Octobers and then the gray.
Love the Red October's too, but just, these ones are more,
every single day I could literally wear these shoes.
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My current rotation would have to be these,
just got a new pair of the Grinch's, RIP Kobe Bryant.
So sick as a lot of basketball players,
you are wearing these during the games
and with different PEs, but the Grinch's
are one of my favorite.
I just got the Fragment, low ones.
Travis Scott's super dope, banging these all the time.
And then my Gator IVs
I just started wearing them for some reason, but,
you know, it's football season.
We went to Florida, love the 'gators
and these are these are dope too.
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This was super tough.
But my top three of all time are the Bred 1s,
the Concords and XVIIs.
I love XIs just because
they are amazing basketball shoe to play in.
I played in these a lot and they're just, the grip,
they feel so comfortable.
And then when you want to get fresh,
you can rock the lemons with anything.
So I think these are just, they just, the go-tos.
Jordan was wearing these when he was going crazy.
And I just didn't look-wise, style-wise
a lot of people favorite shoe was XI,
but the Concords was just probably one of them.
One of my favorite Jordans.
They look so sweet and yeah, these are, I mean,
it's a reason why they're like,
most of Jordan's fans' favorite Jordan,
it might be the, it might be the XI,
honestly, if I had to this probably be my all time.
Favorite, favorite Jordan, for sure.
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Thank you GQ sports for checking out My Life In Sneakers.
It's been a pleasure, see you guys next time.