You wanna hear something crazy?
As long as I’ve been on the internet (since like 1998 or so), I’ve been a sneakerhead…and in that time…SO much sneaker stuff has come out and SO much of it has left an impact on my mind that oftentimes, I remember stuff that completely consumed me at the time but I can no longer find any reference to it online. There are a handful of these moments that I can point back to that I remember vividly but can’t seem to find any mention of them online. It’s maddening…
I went down the @niketalk_com rabbit hole the other day and a lot of the ‘hosted’ photos are no longer ‘hosted’, so it was painful to finally find these threads with no visual evidence…
Anyway, about 10 years ago, the Lebronald Palmers were one of the most desirable Lebron sample shoes out there. I really don’t know Lebron’s like that, but I remember seeing a handful of these listed over the years for (at the time) absolutely insane prices and reading thread after thread on @niketalk_com about the rarity of a few of these pairs…
At one point, I read a thread that turned into a news article about a dude who tried buying a few pairs and ended up getting scammed... Does anyone else remember that dude who bought four pairs of these in like 2011 or 2012 for $35k and got scammed?
I looked EVERYWHERE for the article and it seems that my memory has, once again, outlived the internet. Am I trippin' or do any of y'all OGs remember this?