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Nike launched the Air Force 1 in 1982 as a high-top and the company's first basketball sneaker to feature Air technology, which had made its debut three years earlier on the Tailwind running shoe.

One of the most important pre-Jordan designs is 1982's Nike Air Force 1, the brand's first basketball sneaker to use Air technology. Designed by Bruce Kilgore (who also designed the infamous Air ...