so i just got a new pair of shoes in my collection these came out in 2016. yeah that's right it took
me five years to get these so in today's video i'm gonna be explaining why it took me so long
to get the shoe how i got the shoe what i got the shoe for and why i'm so happy to finally have it
in my collection so if you guys didn't know by now my name is dj and this is the dna show so i'm sure
a lot of you guys remember the boxes from this era the 2016 era had a lot of sneakers that were
on the verge of coming back to solid quality and there are a lot of different things going
on because remember back in 2013 to 2015 there were definitely a lot of sneakers that just had
terrible quality when it came to jordan releases during this time in 2016 i was a senior in college
planning on moving back home training for the nfl and on the process of buying two different
homes so there were definitely a lot of things going on in my life and sneakers definitely were
still important to me but i was using my sneakers to leverage to use that money to then purchase
real estate because my mind and priorities were so much more shifted to real estate
in 2016 and 17 i definitely let a lot of releases slip through the cracks along the way at that
time i had a little over 700 pairs of shoes in my collection i was definitely working on downsizing
liquidating and using that money like i said earlier to purchase real estate i ended up selling
a few hundred pairs of shoes during that time and my only focus was all money in no money out so i'm
sure you guys are wondering by now what sneaker am i talking about that released in 2016 well this
one right here is a pretty special sneaker for a lot of different reasons but the first things
first this was actually a player exclusive version for kobe and shaq and as you guys know i love pe's
and samples i love collecting different things like that so when i saw this release coming out
i knew for a fact i had to have them but at the same time i was following my rules and i said
you know what i'm not purchasing shoes right now i'll get them later so a couple years had passed
by now and during this time there were obviously a bunch of other releases coming out you had the
off-white drops and a bunch of cool things like that and around 2018 that's when the dna shows
started so after starting the channel my focus was then purchasing all the new shoe releases that
were currently coming out during that time simply because i wanted to do reviews on all the new hot
releases by the time 2020 had came around things were more established i had just purchased the
third property that renovation was going well and that's what slowly shifted my mindset to wanting
to purchase sneakers that i might have missed in the past that i still never owned so i know
not just me but i'm pretty sure a lot of other sneaker heads they all have a list in their head
or on a piece of paper or whatever it may be of just sneakers that they're like oh i wish i
had those i wish i had those i'll get those one day i'll grab those when i find a good deal and
that's kind of what happened when it came to this pair right here more time had gone by and i was
slowly looking for it but at the same time this is a sneaker that you don't really see every day
it's not like it's super rare limited or exclusive or anything like that then everything changed when
kobe had passed away r.i.p and i was kind of lollygagging with the shoe a little bit before
he had passed so obviously it wasn't like majorly on my mind and that's definitely something that
brought it to my mind and said hey you know what i did want that shoe i want to try to go after
it but at the same time i'm not about to pay what these resellers want because that's just not right
so after what had happened in 2020 i said you know what i'm going to give it some time let it
simmer down maybe in 2021 the prices will go down a little bit and maybe i'll be able to get it for
affordable price so last year i had kind of been looking for the sneaker but again it's kind of one
of those things i look for so many sneakers that it's just like i kind of take it when it comes
to me and i don't like just search for a sneaker because typically when you search for a sneaker
you end up spending too much money you got to let the shoe come to you i think that's a huge thing
when it comes to the sneaker game and buying shoes for the right price it's just having patience so
later in the year in 2021 i went out to pittsburgh to go to a steelers game with my dad and we were
in one of the sneaker shops there i hit up all the sneaker consignment shops out in pittsburgh shout
out to everybody in pittsburgh if you're from pittsburgh drop a comment down below you know what
i'm saying gang we in this thing but anyways i was at one of the sneaker consignment shops there
i saw that they had a pair i think it was on their instagram or something like that and i went to
their website it said it was still available and they had a pair for like 2 30 and i was like bro
this is a good deal the condition of this shoe was really really nice and i was like yeah i'm
definitely about to buy these as soon as i go to the shop so we went to the shop about an
hour after they had opened and they posted the shoes maybe like three or four days before that
so i was like hopefully they still got them it says they're still available so it shouldn't be
a problem they should still be in the store well guess what i was wrong by the time i got to the
store they forgot to switch their inventory and they had already sold the sneaker so at that point
i was low-key kind of frustrated but that just made me a little bit more determined to buy this
shoe so that was back in november it is currently january now and it has been a couple months and i
was searching online and i saw my local shop here in portland index pdx they ended up having the
shoe on their website so as soon as i saw that i immediately went down there the next day after my
meetings to make sure that they had the shoe they told me it was in stock and i purchased it soon
as i saw it so now i can officially say oh we got the shoe and that kind of explains the short story
behind this sneaker and what made me go after it and how i ended up getting it over time and
all these different things and why it took me five years to get the shoe because i was being patient
i missed out on it all these different things but either way i finally got them and i'm definitely
very happy so i hope you guys are enjoying these b-roll shots as well with the in-hand look just
showing you guys the different details and i'll run over them real quick for you guys since this
isn't like a full review or anything like that but basically we have the purple on the upper with the
patent leather matching on the midsole as well the white outsole with the yellow jumpman here on the
back the yellow hit on the back tab and the yellow 23 and that's something i was saying is a little
bit different than the kobe and shaq pe because they actually had their numbers on the back
and the coloring was just a little bit different as well but overall i still consider these similar
to a pe and at a very affordable price so for me i'm happy to pick up this shoe just because it
resembles the pe that i always had loved this shoe is definitely in really really good condition and
low key a little bit cleaner than the pair that i was planning on purchasing pittsburgh and around
the same exact price so when i saw these online i just knew it was a no-brainer i had to have them
in my collection looking at the prices on gold app you can see right here a used pair which is
nowhere near as close to good condition as the pair that i have somebody's asking 600 bucks
for this shoe do i think they'll sell it for that probably not but still at the same time people are
really trying to tax for this sneaker still and it makes no sense i feel like 250 is something very
reasonable for a sneaker like this saying that the retail price was probably somewhere around
190 bucks so that definitely makes sense you know you give it a little bit time five years removed
a little bit of increase inflation all those different things i understand that 250 ain't bad
but 600 oh yeah no i'm not paying that so that's my story to why it took me five years to get this
pair of shoes in my collection i look forward to rocking these this summer i think they're
gonna look really dope with some outfits let's bring that actually no let's not bring the height
back for the jordan knives but i do want to say i definitely have an appreciation for the jordan 9s
i think this is a nice addition to the collection i mean yeah we could let everybody keep all the
hype for the lower numbers you know everybody they just love the jordan ones but people will
be sleeping on like eights and nines and tens and different stuff like that so we're gonna
let them keep sleeping hopefully they don't do no crazy collab with somebody and just start
driving the hype and demand up again because i think right now you can find some solid models
with some solid colorways for some decent prices still so hopefully let's keep our fingers crossed
that it stays like that for a while and the last thing before i go you guys know i gotta say it
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