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Air More Uptempo '96 Rough Green
Air More Uptempo '96 Rough Green
- Brand
- Nike
- Upper
- Suede
- Colourway
- Rough Green
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Designed by Wilson Smith and released on 12 April 2022 as part of Nike's Air More Uptempo line. This release has a suede upper in Black/Pilgrim/Black/Rough Green. The Air More Uptempo is what happened when Nike stopped hinting about its cushioning and started shouting. Nike Air, the pressurised gas unit sealed into the midsole, had been visible since the 1987 Air Max, and by the mid nineties the company was confident enough to spell the word across the entire side of a basketball shoe in oversized letters. This is design as volume control. The Rough Green execution takes that shape and puts it into an army adjacent green, a colour that suits the shoe's bulk and drops the temperature of a design that normally arrives in high contrast black and white.
Two fits. Military tonal: olive cargo trousers, a black tee and a field jacket, with the shoe finishing the palette instead of fighting it. Contrast and volume: wide grey sweatpants stacked over the collar and an oversized hoodie, because a shoe this heavy needs a silhouette that matches it. Slim trousers make it look like a boot. Best for dry days and cold weather. It fits wide and runs slightly large, so size true or half down. Wipe the lettering carefully around its raised edges where dirt collects, clean the midsole separately, and keep it out of prolonged rain.
Nike became the shoe of basketball after the 1984 Michael Jordan signing and, through basketball, the shoe of hip hop, with Air Jordans, Air Force 1s and Air Max models becoming staples of mainstream American youth dress. The Uptempo sits at the loud end of that inheritance, from an era when a basketball shoe was expected to be seen from the back row. Kevin Durant and LeBron James later carried Nike's signature basketball programme forward into subtler design, but the Uptempo remains the reference for how big a sports shoe was once allowed to be.
A tall, heavy basketball build with a wide base, a padded collar and an upper dominated by the oversized lettering, which is a structural overlay rather than a print, so it carries real weight and real stiffness. Underneath sits a thick midsole with Air cushioning and a broad rubber outsole made for a wooden court. Rough Green keeps the lettering close in tone to the base, which is the interesting choice: instead of maximum contrast the graphic becomes texture, and the shoe reads as mass rather than as typography. Expect a genuinely heavy shoe, a wide fit, and a long break in as the overlays soften.
- Brand
- Nike
- Upper
- Suede
- Colourway
- Rough Green
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