Entry #14 - Australian Boxing Sandals

At the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Team Australia sent a record ten competitors to the boxing tournament. Unfortunately only Justin Kane made it to the quarterfinals, and he was defeated by Sergiy Danylchenko.

But they looked sweet with these Team Australia Nike Boxing Sandals! Textured clear deck for foot comfort (maybe too comfortable).

Entry #13 - NBA Players Golf & Tennis

That Jam Session poster in entry #12 was one of many Nike organized get-togethers from the early days.

One of the first Nike/Nike Athletes get togethers happened in 1975, when Nike took Elvin Hayes, Spencer Haywood, Rudy Tomjonavich, Alvan Adams, Phil Chenier, Charlie Scott, John Drew, Paul Silas, Lucius Allen, and Austin Carr out to Sunriver, Oregon to play tennis and golf. I guess eventually that grew in to the event described on this shirt?

Can you imagine this happening today? Top story on SportsCenter-LeBron tears a ligament in his right elbow in the Nike NBA Players Golf & Tennis Tournament today...

Entry #12 - Jam Session

A classic Nike poster, with a rarely seen shot of what the back looks like...

Entry #11 - LeBron's Mom's Shoes

Gloria James not only has a kid in the NBA, she gets special colorways of her kid's shoes. Please son, please, make it to the NBA.

Entry #10 - 1981 Nordstrom Run

Check out the twin peaks on this one.

Entry #9 - Club Knight Tennis

It's been said Phil Knight likes a good tennis match, but does he like it all day and all Knight?

I speculate Club Knight's a late night tennis gambling hall. They live there. They die there. They get their mail there. And when they don't play by the rules, they get their hand stuck in a tennis ball machine.

Entry #8 - Lisa Schlenker's Shoes

Maybe somebody who has been inside Nike can tell me what this is all about. Looks like it was part of a larger display or something, but I'm just guessing.

What I do know is that they're Lisa Schlenker's rowing shoes, mounted onto an engraved plate. The soles reminded me of an old shoe I used to love, the Aqua Sock.

Something that strikes me about the shoe is the lack of wordmark, NIKE is not found anywhere on the shoe, just a Swoosh. Maybe that's an Olympic uniform rule or something?