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First Full Look at the Air Jordan XXX2 (32)

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What has been shadowy images and speculation for the last two months has been confirmed: the Air Jordan XXX2 is flames. Carmelo was spotted in a blacked-out pair and a hoodie running courts last month, but only now, thanks to Cassy Athena (IG @cassyathenaphoto), do we get a full look.

I’m just guessing but it appears to feature a Flyknit forefoot and what looked, at first, like a Flywire lacing system. Upon further inspection, nope, no Flywire. The laces go through the knit, so hopefully there will be some reenforcement behind it (nothing too stiff, keep that Flyknit flex).

The midsole is very similar to the Flyknit Trainer 2 aesthetically (check out our Flyknit Trainer 2 performance review), so a forefoot Zoom unit would make sense. The heel is hard to tell — I can’t see if it is foam, a full-length Unlocked setup like the XXX1, or a separate Zoom or Air unit.

The ankle is wrapped in leather that is angled and shaped to resemble the Jordan II (taking the “influenced by” chapter one step further). The black and red colorway even has the embossed lizard texture on the leather, but the all black looks smooth. The ridges from the original II carry over into the heel counter of the XXX2, along with the Wings logo on the tongue.

Overall, this looks like it could be the best Jordan signature shoe of all time, something the XXX1 was oh-so-close to becoming last year (that freaking traction though). Now we wait for official tech specs from Jordan Brand.

The XXX2’s release date is scheduled for October 18, 2017, for the black and red colorway, with others coming in January 2018. The price was kept at $185, something becoming more common these days (stagnant or dropping prices).

Let us know your thoughts below, now that we have seen the full image of the Jordan XXX2. Love? Hate? Indifferent?

 

20 comments
  1. Interesting. Once the textures are added like the BRED CW that we got a glimpse of and other color ways are revealed, this could be a great-looking shoe. I just hope that the cushion is still A1 and that the traction is consistent. They had to have heard the complaints rolling in last year about that 31’s traction. I just hope that they actually fixed it for the average person playing on an average court.

  2. These look like sick performers. Nice reinforcement on the sides. Flyknit looks accommodating. Excited to see what the traction looks like. Then the wait for it to see outlet shelves cause fuck paying 185 for a performance basketball shoe

  3. I don’t know.
    To me personally the 28 was the one which did its job the best as long as it lasted. Not much in this pic screams loud and clear to me that the 32 can do it better.

    Judging from the creases in the midsole it has a soft carrier which is on the plus side and stylewise i like the heel counter but that’s it so far for me.

    This feeling that i had throughout the years of my youth that the next Jordan siganture model is always the best basketball shoe available is just gone. Today all i have left is the wish that i would still be that way.

  4. It looks ok, not great, but ok. As for performance, it looks light, and I like the soft toebox/sturdy ankle area combo(Brandblack does that well).

    I see a little traction peeking out at the heel, and this is just speculation, but if the rest of the outsole looks that tight and shallow, then that could be 2 years in a row of dunderhead traction. Hopefully they learned their lesson, though.

  5. It looks like JB is listening to the players who will wear the shoe on court. Thankfully those who actually buy the shoes to wear on court, have many other options. Honestly these look like Jordan Melo 1, only with a knitted upper.

  6. This is not “fire” this should be thrown into the fire. I mean, what is this shit…this is Chicago bull shit. This looks like a budget team model at best. Crap like this is why Adidas is about to step over Nike dead body and take the throne.

    1. Hakuna your tatas

      Also not a fan visually but it must be the color or something.

      On the topic of JXX8, not everyone was a fan of the high shroud but we all know how that turned out (sans the popping issue lol)

  7. Hey look hyperdunks with the Jordan logo on it, are they doing that for charlotte?

    But in all seriousness these look pretty average, this tends to happen with all black color ways. Love the knit, but the rest of the overlay looks a little cheap. Will they be the greatest Jordan shoe of all time? I doubt it, but there’s a chance.

  8. I mean, this is meh. Maybe other colorways will look better, but it looks like a budget team shoe at this point.

  9. These look aiight. I was never a fan of the II in the first place. These probably still use Zoom since the midsole isn’t thick and bulky looking like the Hyperdunk 17 and Superfly 6.

  10. The last great AJ in my opinion was the 29; near-perfect upper, responsive cushioning, and ergonomic tooling all in one package. The 31 and 32 don’t measure up because their designs are derived from the AJ 1 and 2, respectively. I’m not a fan of this retro-inspired approach because the expectation of a brand new design is diluted, whereas in the past, a new Jordan shoe always represented the pinnacle of sneaker innovation.

  11. If that midsole looked more interesting, it would’ve won more people over on first look impressions. Doing the less-is-more approach to attain performance is always commendable, but looking back at the more detailed 28 and 29/30 tooling make the 31’s and this kinda meh despite the whole re-imagination thing.

    Upper surely looks amazing. Same soft-to-hard from toe to heel formula that worked for the likes of the 31 and such. I feel like this is under utilized and the only other recent example I can recall is the JC2.

  12. I like what I see so far with the heavy influence of the AJ2. Would like to see some more info on the tech in this shoe, but likely it’s going to have Zoom bags and Flight Plate, and that’s good. Hopefully they have corrected the outsole traction issue of the AJ31. Releasing these in OG AJ2 colorways would be the icing on the cake for sure. Jordan has my money for these in Oct.

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