today i'm going to be telling you guys a story about how i got my space jam
11s from 2009 bruh this story is insane you won't believe this one
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wanting to tell you guys a story behind this shoe for so so long and finally the time has come but
before i get into the story i have to introduce you to a couple of my friends because they were
key factors in this story as well so let's go ahead and introduce them what's up you guys i'm aj
what's going on it's your boy tom you know who it is follow the ig handle below yo what's up i'm j
mass i'm trey excuse the brides vanessa couldn't get me in but i'm here what up i'm jq so now that
you know who those guys are you'll see them pop in throughout the story and man this is gonna be
a good one so sit back grab your popcorn and let's get this story started so this all started back in
2009 holiday season we had just became seniors in high school and we're having a great ball you know
collecting sneakers and all those different fancy things but we knew the space jam 11's
such an iconic shoe we had to have these in our collections and all my homies we were collectors
so we all needed them so my whole life i was like damn i need the space jam so i gotta figure out
how i'm gonna get the space jam so it all started off a cold winter friday night we were gonna go
camp out at nike town it was freezing cold outside literally freezing temperatures so nike told the
people that were sitting in line they said hey we're gonna give all you guys a wristband that'll
reserve your pair come back tomorrow between 10 a.m and 1 p.m and that way you can pick them
up whenever you like to so after sitting in the cold for a couple of hours it paid off so so much
it was helicode at nike town i was just glad i had appeared on reserve but not all the homies
were able to camp out that night so it was only a couple of us that were able to go on reserve
pairs at nike town and you know us we needed not just one not just two but we needed multiple pairs
in our collections so all the homies that weren't able to make it were already planning on going to
the mall and we had plans on going to the mall as well but we knew that we were going to camp
at nike town but luckily it had opened up so now we're like great we can go camp out with you at
the mall as well and try to get a second pair we ended up all meeting up at ihop to have dinner
that night around 1am and then we were gonna go plan on sneaking into the mall and meanwhile
i'm chilling at the house like everybody's out about to get pairs
i'm chilling broke i had some intel from some previous employees at the mall
so they told me exactly what door to go to and what door the janitors go through so we can sneak
in the same exact door we got there around 2 am and we saw an employee coming out of the door
and we knew this is our moment this is our chance to block the door and leave it open so we can get
in dashed up to the door i stuck a cup inside the door so that way the door wouldn't close all the
way and the lock wouldn't latch onto the frame so by doing that that guaranteed us a way into
the mall when we're ready to come back later in the morning so we all sneak into the mall and
we didn't realize we weren't thinking you know we're still young there's security cameras all
over the mall they saw everything that we had done and they were watching us throughout the entire
process my story is a little bit different than everybody else's we snuck in but i was the slowest
and i knew the odds were in my against me if uh i stuck with them so i thought it would be good
to break away from the pack oh but before that uh we were running up some concrete stairs and
i got pushed into the like the me the median and i hit my knee i ended up spraying my knee later
that i found out i was on ir already so now we're trying to i'm trying to run or not with a bum knee
and i'm the slowest already so then i'm like okay well when we get in this mall i can't go with them
so everybody breaks off so first we were in macy's upstairs where the mattresses and everything we're
i was hiding there trying to elude everybody right i thought this would be a good place to
hide because i don't ever see security up here i didn't work out so then i go to the photo booth
to hide in there and close the curtains i was sneaking over the finish line trying to go sit
in front of the doors and just act like i didn't know them it worked well i think the security kept
walking by me they didn't say anything he's playing chase with them in the mall i'm just
sitting there minding my own business in front of the store obviously he knows what i'm there for
but i'm not actively running one because my knee hurts and two because if you run they'll chase
you so i thought so as the security is chasing them i'm watching because i'm on the second floor
balcony so i can see them running one way the security comes the other way as they uh as they're
running from them i'm just sitting there and i'm just not moving not doing anything the photo
booth doesn't work either they tell me get out of there and so the security guard comes by me tired
i can see he is wore out wasn't there two security guards in there that night one of the dudes he was
he was like 30-something young black dude the other dude he was an old white dude that must
have been like his side gig or something homie was straight up retirement age the young black dude he
was he was kind of young he looked like you know he was a little elusive we was gonna have to try
to shake and bake him we had action with that old white dude though we were hiding in the bathrooms
the photo booths you name it we were hiding everywhere in the mall trying to run away from the
security then he looks over at me he looks at the security camera he radios in and says uh is he one
of them and i'm looking i'm like bro you know i've been sitting here this whole time they raid her
back yeah he is he was like oh you got to get out the mall i've been you've been running for me i'm
like bro you know i ain't been running from you so then he kicks me off the mall so i'm walking out
slowly limping with a bum knee no shoes no nothing and i'll meet back up with them and they're just
as defeated as i am except at least they're not hurt ultimately you know we got kicked out of them
well it didn't work so then we came back to djs to regroup so eventually they caught us all and they
kicked us out of the mall they said we were banned from coming in they literally wouldn't let us come
back and we're like bro how are we going to get the shoes if they're coming out in the morning
and we're banned from the mall so we sat across the street plotting and plotting and plotting
and waiting until 8 a.m because we knew the mall was gonna open up and we're like we might have a
chance we might just sneak in and just finesse it anyway and it was kind of funny because as we sat
out in the street watching car after car person after person trying to sneak in the mall and get
in these different places and everybody trying to finesse their way in the store it was crazy to see
all of it happen and unfold right in front of our eyes so we've seen another homie pull up and he
told us that they were opening one single door at 8 a.m so by this time it's around like 6 a.m and
you know we're just waiting 8 a.m when's it gonna come when's it gonna come clock's just moving so
slow so this is when we came up with the plan we decided okay since we can't get in the mall we're
gonna just try to get closer to that door that way when 8 a.m hits we'll be ready to go and we
can be first in front of that door and then when they open the door at 9am to let us in the mall we
could be the first one inside the mall so we snuck down into the garage and we're like you know what
we're going to chill out down here literally chill out bro it was freezing cold there was a ross door
at the end of the parking lot and we knew this is the door that everybody's gonna go in so we
tried to sneak around you know hiding under cars hiding behind walls all different types of stuff
i just sat in the car i already had him up here on reserve and i was sitting there for a solid like
six or nine minutes and i was like bruh i need to get closer even though nobody was in front
of the door i just wanted to be closer i moved up a little bit and bang they caught me i had
to go back upstairs and sit in line with everybody else now they're like really on my head like ain't
you the dude that we just kicked out earlier and i'm like no no that wasn't me i don't know what
you're talking about and so i went back upstairs but some of the homies were still downstairs
in the garage so we tried to get sneaky again we saw this truck that was right by the entrance that
they were gonna let everybody in at so i cannot we hopped in the back of it so while they were
hiding in the back of the pickup truck i found a staircase that i got hide in and i felt like
that was a much better spot to be hiding than in the back of somebody's pickup truck
and then this is where the fun really began after about 5-10 minutes we've seen people start to line
up at that door again so we hopped up out of the truck we got in line and i think another maybe
five minutes went by and the security guards came out and was like no it's still terribly everybody
get off the premises i was hot because i had first spot in line so while they out here finessing and
running around from security guards i still hid in the staircase it just made more sense to me
now by the time i came back upstairs from getting kicked out from the garage bro a sea of people it
was about 500 people outside everybody running around being crazy it was ridiculous it was like
28 degrees outside you could literally see my breath there was a security guard downstairs and
one upstairs he told us as soon as it hits 8 a.m you guys can go ahead and dash down there whoever
gets in line then your first time first serve go ahead and do your thing so you know me i had to
stretch out a little bit because i was ready to rumble as soon as that clock struck i was gone
but one thing i didn't know was there was another entrance on the back of the garage and a lot of
people snuck in on that side so there was already like 70 or 80 people in line by the time we had
already got down there when eight o'clock hit i was on a staircase walking over with ease while
everybody was still running around trying to get there so i was at the door pretty much one of the
first people there i was probably like number five in line to get into this one door that they were
gonna open up for everybody to get in but i got like 80 people in front of me and i know damn well
i'm not gonna get my shoe if i'm 80th in line so after waiting for about a solid 45 minutes i went
from about 80th in line to about 30th in line so we're waiting it's getting closer and closer nine
o'clock is coming oh my gosh bro i have to get in the mall there's about five minutes left until the
door is about to open and in my head i had known there were four stores in the mall we had a foot
locker a champs a foot action in a finish line but not all the stores even got a size 13. only two of
those stores got a size 13. so i knew already i wasn't going to go to those stores and my plan in
my head was to try to get to finish line because i could guarantee myself a pair there if i was at
the front of the line and i just remember vividly the black young security guard he looked at he
looked at the old white dude he came to the door and all white dude was scared to open the door
and the black dude just said oh no come on come on yeah come on open that door so the door opens
and pandemonium breaks out and when i say breaks out literally breaks out i'm on the
side kind of like by the wall so i can just get a you know make myself skinny and slide
on in there some way somehow i eventually get in there i make my way to the middle of the crowd
there's people on both sides left and right trying to make their way through these narrow doorways
but i'm in the middle it was a stampede just pushing you through that door them hinges from
that door start to squeeze and everybody pushing and you just like well i was like this right
[ __ ] breathless funky this is something that you see on tv bro i had to stiff arm somebody's mom
and i look over and the doors are like breaking off the hinges and i'm like i can't go back or
i'll go with the doors so i just pushed through and i mean i was all-state defensive tackle
i had a full ride
one nothing scarly good i wouldn't
anyways keep going like i was saying as the door broke i can hear the glass start to creak and
shatter so i just started to push through and i knew i couldn't go back or i was going with
the door so as i run through the mall i'm looking and everybody's faster than me because i got a bad
leg well they're passing me already but out they were really fast for me when i had this bad knee
i see the stairwell it was actually the escalator and it wasn't on and the the chain was up and i
had to make the decision do i go over or do i go under i said for safety purposes i'm going under
so i went under ran up the stairs after i had got about 50 feet inside the building we hit the
corner and the first escalator right there was jam-packed i uh seen that there was not nobody
by champs and that people were running right past it and i didn't know if they had any pairs or how
many pairs they had but i thought it was worth a shot just because one it was close and two because
there was nobody there so i ended up actually being first in line i'm running i see some some
young asian fellow fall to my right he hit the ground i'll hop over him his sister baby his
cousin his girlfriend i don't know who she was she fall to my left oh now i've seen two people fall
on my way to these stores so i knew if i could beat everybody in a foot race to the second
escalator get up that escalator i'd be good to go i was the only one that ran that way and i was
like bruh i'm first in line nothing to worry about by the time i got to the top of the escalator
i seen tone and act running right past me and my mind was blown tom was moving
so fast it was ridiculous i must have ran the fastest 100 meter dash i've ever ran in my life
to get the finish line i'm talking full stride and the rest was history and then all the
stragglers came in behind me um that say they're faster than me but yeah they came in behind me
you look you cleared the path for me now that i'm thinking about when we got through the door
we got through the door i was pushing through the pad because i was about on the side of the wall
right there so as soon as i'm in there i'm like oh i got action so i'm running straight i hit a lift
i'm thinking oh shoot now where do i go because at this point i didn't know which door i was going to
i just knew that i needed the shoes i knew that foot locker was the furthest away from where we
were plus i run like a 4-4 you know your boy i was getting jiggy in the lloyd center you know what
what but i wasn't even mad because by the time i got to finish line it was tone act and me in
line i'm thinking dang huh these aren't all them running to the left that was a tad bit faster than
me uh at the time so i figured my chances would be pretty well if i went to the right i got up the
stairs and the line was 10 d so i just didn't even get in line tried to go check on the other stores
and those lines were deep too but remember i already had my pair so i didn't care we all
had different sizes and we ended up getting our pairs it was an amazing day i didn't get
no pairs from the lloyd cena and i don't think i stepped in the lawyer center since that day
i probably have slid in there and got a cinnamon though i ain't gonna lie oh yeah and i forgot
to mention i did ended up buying seven pairs that night and that was like one of my biggest
craziest cops like at the time you know i had only been collecting for a couple years
and that was a huge night for me and this is why you have crazy memories behind shoes like this
this was 10 11 years ago and i still have my shoes today i don't necessarily have a pair
right now i ended up getting them though so my parents end up giving me a pair of air force ones
version of the space jam so i'm like ah what can i do with this end up returning those sorry parents
i ended up trading a pair of kale ones straight across for the space jams you tell me who won but
i ended up trading those space jams for these bad boys and i love them i can't be mad at it so this
is my special story i'm rocking with it to this day still got them up here so like i was telling
you i was first in line but i still got kicked out of the mall and i still didn't get the shoes
until this day i've never owned the space jam 11. i can definitely afford to buy them right now
but they're not at retail and i just can't bring myself to pay resale 10 years later i
still have my shoe this shoe means a lot to me i mean seeing that this movie came out back in
96 i was four at the time man i remember like it was yesterday my mom took me and my cousin
to the movies and since that day i've idolized this shoe cheers to the to the tune squad just
like many of the other people in the crew i still got my pair today a slight yellow on
the bottom probably never get rid of these but if you're talking the right price let me know
i'm very excited to share my stories like this with you guys
especially all the ones that i have shared with my friends because we talk about these things
all the time and i love putting this stuff on camera and letting you guys see our experiences
and hopefully one day when we're 69 years old and we come back and watch this video it's gonna be a
great thing to look back and laugh on and show our kids like hey you know we used to be fast
we used to cop kicks too so with all that being said and while you're at it do not forget to like
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