Did you know? When Michael Jordan was getting close to retirement, Jordan Brand knew they needed other athletes to carry on his sneaker legacy. For basketball, they had this idea to sponsor a ‘quick’ player and a ‘strong’ player. On the ‘quick’ side, they chose Eddie Jones. And on the ‘strong’ side, they chose Vin Baker. Eddie Jones and Vin Baker were set to carry on the Jordan legacy long after Jordan retired. Kinda funny when you think about it. It wasn’t Kobe, it wasn’t Lebron, it wasn’t AI, it wasn’t even Tmac or...I dunno. It was Eddie Jones and Vin Baker. Ballers, for sure, but...I don’t know that they even had 5 solid years in the NBA. …
Kinda funny how many athletes Jordan Brand has steamrolled through. Not to say Vin Baker or Eddie Jones weren’t great players, but nobody has been able to even come close to the legacy Jordan has paved. Not just on the court, but the shoes...god. I’m a high school teacher, and we’ve got 11 and 12 year olds fiendin for the same sneakers some of us were fiendin for 20 and 30 years ago. Like the *exact. same. shoes. …
This pair of Vin Baker Player Exclusives went for $3.5k....ungraded….and...that kills me. I mean...it’s probably worth it...XV PE’s are very hard to come by. BUT...This kills me because I sold a pair of Vin Baker PE’s about 4 years ago for a fraction of that price (swipe for the PayPal receipt). It wasn’t a Jordan PE, but the Vin Baker Sig PE (a great ball shoe btw)...and...it seriously took me like two years to sell. Pretty sure I bought them for like $185 and I sold them THREE YEARS later for like $300. …
But check the cards - there’s not a single ‘sold’ Vin Baker rookie card on ebay. Not even one. You can, however, buy a 10/10 PSA Graded Vin Baker Rookie card for the unattainable price of $12.95 shipped lol wtf How is it that this card - graded a perfect 10/10 - is worth *less* than the cost to have it graded?
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I guess Vin Baker didn’t really pan out…swipe to learn a bit more about him - he spun into a deep depression and ended up working as a Barista at Starbucks. Jordan made...what…$100M last year? Vin Baker…$50k? Faaack.