It’s still gotta be da shoes

Mid-1980s. Junior high school in Mokena, Ill. Kid (not me) walks out of the locker room wearing the original $100-plus red-and-black-and-white Air Jordans. A brief pause—has time stopped? Then a sudden giant sucking sound, as any vestiges of non-materialistic attitudes are vacuumed, Exorcist-like, from our little 11-year-old brains. Few of us would ever end up with a pair of Air Jordans, but there wasn’t a single one of us who didn’t want them. From that day a couple decades ago, it’s a fairly straight shot to this year’s Wimbledon, where Nike