We've chronicled Nike cheap nike shoes Basketball's trip 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.

The Nike Air Foamposite One is a shoe that mens nike running trainers opened minds and assisted a generation of players. What many don't know is that it was inspired by sunglass protection. Uniting the Advanced group, then known as A.P.E. (Advanced Product Engineering), marketing and the designers new nike shoes at Nike, lead designer Eric Avar recalls the question, "Okay, what could we do? How do we step outside of the norm of the way we look at design and manufacturing shoes?"

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 up to the 2012 Olympic Basketball Semi-Final, Nike Basketball will nike 90 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 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.

Nike Flywire gave the notion of "Flight" some extra might. The Nike Air Hyperdunk went over the head of its opponents by borrowing a concept from one of the modern world's most impressive architectural feats  suspension bridges. By applying super-strong nylon filaments for precise support nike 95 black akin to the cables of a bridge, the Nike Air Hyperdunk was able to radically reduce weight by providing support material only where it's needed.

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.