Scottie Pippen told through his sneakers From the Avia 855 to the signature shoes, passing through the legendary Uptempo

The '90s represented the period in which basketball shoes reached international stages, either for a drastically innovative and much more voluminous design than the classic ''tennis'' shoes, or because Nike's marketing strategies - on all - they worked as they didn't expect in Beaverton: credit should be given to the Air Jordan line, which in terms of sales and visibility was something irreplaceable, but also to the investments made on the right athletes; Scottie Pippen, the unexpected star of the first two episodes of "The Last Dance", was one of these successful choices.

''Pip'' will be forever remembered for its Air More Uptempo - returned to the limelight three years ago due to the collaboration between Nike and Supreme - but the process that led him to be associated with such an iconic sneaker is longer than you think and responsible for this ''change'' is designer Wilson Smith, responsible for signature shoes for Nike.

In the late 1980s Scottie wore the Avia 855 Low before changing sponsors; in fact, only in 1989 he started wearing Nike, the Air Flight of 1989, a very popular model at the time - as still - with a design inspired by the Jordan 4.

"Sometimes the biggest challenge for a player is to understand their role within a team", a statement that testifies to how much Pip had a superb basketball IQ and a maturity that - apart from contractual consequences - was always in favor of the team . Pippen was really much more than a helper, he was an MVP lent to the best player ever.