Teenager Arthur Agee sits on the bed in his room in his home in suburban Chicago, reaches over and picks up his pair of basketball shoes. It's 1988. On the sides and backs of his battered sneakers, the teenager has written in black capital letters "TUSS", the nickname of his idol, Isiah Thomas, a star with NBA team the Detroit Pistons. "I drew on these with my name," says Agee, one of the subjects of the 1994 documentary Hoop Dreams, which charts his unsuccessful five-year campaign to transform from high-school basketball phenomenon to NBA star.
- Ben Coady, 06/09/2010 "One Man Brand" Sports & Style.
Original, 1984, Air Jordan:
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