Air Jordan 14 / Air Jordan Xiv The Air Jordan XIV (14) was released in 1998/1999. This was the very last Air Jordan model that Michael would sport in NBA before his retirement. On January 13th 1999 Michael announced his retirement from the NBA basketball for the second and final(?) time. Retired in style The design was inspired by Michaels car, the Ferrari 550 M, and was made by Tinker Hatfield together with Mark Smith. A great stylish design and a great shoe for Michael to end his NBA career in. This was the first Air Jordan that would feature laces with metal tips. Something that both the XV's and XVI's designs also would use. 14 = XIV The XIV's also begun the trend of having a number of things that would count towards the model# of the shoe. On the XIV's each shoe had seven jumpmans; ferrari-like shield, insole, sole, back, 2 x lacetip and front. Counting them on both shoes makes it a total of 14 (XIV) Jumpmans. Again, lots and lots of fakes/factory variants went to the market and colorcombos that were horrible were seen here and there. Original White/Black White/Black-Varsity Red White/Black-Oxidized Green Black/Black-Varsity Red Black/Black-White-Indiglo White/Obsidian-Columbia Blue (low) Varsity Royal/Black-White (low) Light Ginger/Black-White (low) Retro Black/Black-Varsity Red White/Black-Varsity Red White/Black-Varsity Red-Metallic Silver Retro+ Light Graphite/Chartreuse-Black White/Chartreuse-Black Wht/Blk-Deep Forest Green-Light Graphite Black/University Blue-Metallic Silver Wht/Pacific Blue-Met S-Bright Ceramic (low) Black/Pink Ice (wmns) White/Varsity Red-Linen (wmns) White/Cerise-Classic Green (wmns low) Samples White/Black-Oxidized Green Samples White/Black-Columbia Blue Samples White/Black-Varsity Purple 34 Samples White/Black-Green Samples |