{"id":206654,"date":"2012-03-19T23:23:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T04:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicekicks.com\/?p=206654"},"modified":"2022-09-16T04:04:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T09:04:07","slug":"this-day-sneaker-history-mj-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/this-day-sneaker-history-mj-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day In Sneaker History: MJ Returns to the NBA in &#8220;Chicago&#8221; Air Jordan 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The words, &#8216;I&#8217;m Back&#8217; have never been more delightful and electrifying to sneaker enthusiasts\/basketball fans than when His Airness used that phrase 17 years ago in a memorable press conference. On March 19th, 1995, Michael Jordan returned to the NBA in his first game after leaving to pursue baseball. Everybody remembers him donning the #45 jersey against the Indiana Pacers due to the Bulls retiring his #23 jersey following his first retirement announcement, but who remembers him wearing the <strong>&#8220;Chicago&#8221; 10s<\/strong>? No, not the pair that just released this past January. Check out today&#8217;s <strong>&#8220;This Day In Sneaker History&#8221;<\/strong> edition, brought to you by our associate editor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/geokthree\">George Kiel III<\/a>, to see what MJ specifically wore in his first game back from baseball.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X2dttCGYI08\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"620\" height=\"345\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_206655\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-206655\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-206655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Jordan wearing the Air Jordan 10 &quot;Chicago&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_206659\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-206659\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-206659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Air Jordan 10 &quot;Chicago&quot; (#45)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_206659\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-206659\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-206659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Air Jordan 10 &quot;Chicago&quot; (#45)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_206657\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-206657\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-206657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Air Jordan 10 &quot;Chicago&quot; (2012 Retro)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_206656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-206656\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-206656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen both wearing the Air Jordan 10 &quot;Chicago&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where were you when this happened? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":206691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1203975],"tags":[1225669,1225452,1225575,1225586,1225706,1225474],"cultivate_rss":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.0 (Yoast SEO v24.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>This Day In Sneaker History: MJ Returns to the NBA in &quot;Chicago&quot; Air Jordan 10 | Snkrs Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Where to buy This Day In Sneaker History: MJ Returns to the NBA in &quot;Chicago&quot; Air Jordan 10 shoes. 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