In addition to the poster, the commercial spot also inspired a one-shot comic book published by Dark Horse. Produced by Wieden+Kennedy with special effects from Industrial Light & Magic, the commercial features a kaiju-size Sir Charles swaggering up to a goggles-clad Godzilla, elbowing the beast in its scaly esophagus, and two-hand dunking on a hoop made out of the first O in “Tokyo.” The commercial was originally supposed to air only in Japan, but as its general awesomeness could not be contained by arbitrary constructs like international borders, Nike decided to also air the spot in the States, debuting it during the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards. Barkley” is one of the most memorable Nike basketball commercials ever. The slogan for the shoe also doubled as a thinly veiled shot at Nike: “Pump up and air out.” As he took the court before his first dunk, Brown memorably paused for a moment at the sideline to pump up his sneakers, and would end up winning with the dunk depicted in the poster above. In 1989, Reebok introduced the Reebok Pump, a sneaker with air bladders fed by the eponymous pump located on the front of the sneaker’s tongue, that wearers could, you know, pump to their own personal taste. Dee Brown, “No-Look Dunk,” 1991ĭee Brown, currently an assistant coach with the Sacramento Kings, was a young Celtics combo guard when he won the 1991 NBA slam dunk contest with what has to be the most perfectly executed sneaker brand synergy of all time. Like this decidedly unnerving poster of former Seattle SuperSonics sniper Dale Ellis that is supposed to depict the small forward as a hit man in the midst of casing a target but comes off rather like Ellis is a To Catch a Predator–esque Peeping Tom. No retrospective of sports posters can hope to be taken seriously without including the work of the Costacos brothers, whose original mix of pop-culture references and athlete brand-building made for some of the most striking posters of the ’80s and ’90s. Millions have sat on the edge of their beds and stared right back. There’s some irony to the most iconic poster of Michael Jordan - a player whose internationally celebrated career is littered with images of himself, rampant in Bulls red, skywalking across space, victorious over all obstacles including gravity and 7-footers - being in black-and-white and showing him doing nothing but staring right at you. As one of our great warrior-poets once said, nobody knows what it means, but it’s provocative. What does that quote mean? Let’s be real: At 11, I didn’t know, and to think about it too deeply now might make me feel feelings. Six feet wide, rendered in crisp black-and-white, MJ’s eyes staring back at you with an expression of implacable blankness, and that line by William Blake: There are many other fantastic MJ posters - the various in-flight tongue-flapping game action shots, the trans-free-throw-line flight Jump Man dunk. OK, for real, though - there was a time, a simpler time, when 16-bit video game consoles ruled and the Internet was a plot device in WarGames, when owning this poster made you a freaking boss. That got us to thinking … what else did we have on our walls?īy the mid-1980s, the 18th-century English writer, poet, and graphic artist William Blake was so insanely popular that a scuffling little shoe company named Nike decided to use a quote of his to punch up a poster of a then-unknown athlete named Michael Jordan. The general condition of all items will range from Poor to Very Good and may or may not coincide with an item’s future grade from an authenticating/grading service.Editor’s note: The 30 for 30 Short Posterized tells the story of the iconic poster of Tracy McGrady dunking over Shawn Bradley. Autographs without COAs are compared to authenticated examples from online sources prior to sale upload. Items that are consigned with Certificates or Letters of Authenticity ( COA) are listed as such with the item’s description. Everything But The House does not authenticate or grade sports memorabilia.The photo has a black frame and is under glass. This photo includes a certificate of authenticity from Big Blue Nation Legends. This is a special edition print of one of 30,000, and is copyrighted by University of Kentucky Athletics. His signature is on the top right of the photo in silver ink, along with his number 23. This black and white photo, inspired by the popular Michael Jordan Wingspan poster, features Davis with his arms stretched out over ten basketballs, with a caption that reads ‘2012 National Defensive Player of the Year Candidate’. An autographed Wingspan poster print of former University of Kentucky basketball player Anthony Davis.
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