, it didn’t highlight the fact that she was a former USC standout who had once scored 101 points in a high school game. Instead, the paper called her a “promising young fashion runway model from Inglewood.”
“I patterned my shoe after Chanel, ’cause I couldn’t afford Chanel back in the day,” she said with a laugh. “So I wanted my Nike shoe to have a little Chanel puff on it.” “I appreciate Nike allowing me to be a part of the process, because you hear people talk about [not being involved], and I really helped design that shoe,” she said. “I loved it and I was really thankful.”
“Growing up in the projects of North Philly, I was just so up on shoes,” said Staley, now the coach of the University of South Carolina women’s basketball team. “I didn’t really care what I looked like from my ankles up, as long as ankles down were nice, new and clean. … And I think that came off as supercool to Nike … authentic.”
“I wanted a leather shoe that had a little shine to it,” she said. “Not too high or too low … a good height where I could maneuver. But I couldn’t have a lot of movement in my shoe. I needed that tightness. I got the most out of my game with that feel on my feet.” Cooper, now the coach of the Texas Southern University women’s team, recalled her journey to achieving that goal.
“You had to see my mom … walking around in the Air Shake ’Em Up,” Cooper recalled. “She wore my shoes around the house. She had to represent. She was like, ‘My daughter has her own shoe!’ ” Fila came calling, looking to complement the success it was having at the time with Grant Hill’s signature series on the men’s side. The company offered a deal worth $1 million, and guaranteed McCray her own signature shoe.
Her name was also on the insole, and the shoe was made in both white and red to link with the Team USA unis she donned in 1998, as well as in white, blue and gold hues to match the Mystics’ debut jerseys. She remembers that first game in her Deltas well. With the WNBA heading into its third season, Holdsclaw was unsurprisingly selected No. 1 overall by the Mystics in the 1999 draft. A bidding war between Nike and Adidas followed, sparking what her agent claimed to be the biggest women’s shoe deal at the time — “by far.”
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