No. The Nike shoes were the in-thing at the time, but no one had any real idea who the silhouette on the boot was. I think the Jordans were the first commercially available basketball boot in Yurop, so that probably played a part in their popularity.
He was famous, yes. Everyone wore Chicago Bulls merchandise, and if you ever asked why, they'd say because of Michael Jordan. He's not the GOAT of basketball, but he is absolutely the GOAT of merchandising.
>trying to restart the endless shitstorm for the 10000000th thread
It's either Wilt or Kareem, but I've never seen anyone queue up to buy Air Wilts or Air Kareems.
No. The Nike shoes were the in-thing at the time, but no one had any real idea who the silhouette on the boot was. I think the Jordans were the first commercially available basketball boot in Yurop, so that probably played a part in their popularity.
the UK is an outlier. everyone and their mom knew about Jordan in continental Europe during the 90s.
Yes, he was the one who made basketball relevant worldwide.
Of course, there was a massive marketing work to do so, but that doesn't change the fact that he was the sport's greatest ambassador
No. The Nike shoes were the in-thing at the time, but no one had any real idea who the silhouette on the boot was. I think the Jordans were the first commercially available basketball boot in Yurop, so that probably played a part in their popularity.
He was famous, yes. Everyone wore Chicago Bulls merchandise, and if you ever asked why, they'd say because of Michael Jordan. He's not the GOAT of basketball, but he is absolutely the GOAT of merchandising.
>He's not the GOAT of basketball
Who is it then?
>trying to restart the endless shitstorm for the 10000000th thread
It's either Wilt or Kareem, but I've never seen anyone queue up to buy Air Wilts or Air Kareems.
But wilt and qassem played with farmers in a pre-pro era though
>Everyone wore Chicago Bulls merchandise
Blacks and a handful of well-off white kids wore it. No one else cared.
the UK is an outlier. everyone and their mom knew about Jordan in continental Europe during the 90s.
>the UK is an outlier
And you didn't follow suit when you know you should have.
No
I only know him because of Ronaldinho
Nobody outside of Chicago and North Carolina knew who this Pippenbabby was
Yes, he was the one who made basketball relevant worldwide.
Of course, there was a massive marketing work to do so, but that doesn't change the fact that he was the sport's greatest ambassador
>was
he still is the only basketballer apart from nowitzki that most people know here
>Space Jam aside
but SJ is the reason he is known worldwide
I BELIEVE I CAN FLY
yea he was pretty famous. My parents were from a country that didn't know anything about apehood or nba but they all knew MJ
He is known as the goat of basketball among the boomers here. no one knows lebron btw
he was the michael jackson of basketball
I only ever heard of him through Space Jam
have you heard of shoes