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As sneakerheads, the sizes of our individual collections may vary, but each of us can remember that one shoe that started our obsession with kicks. In order to highlight these symbolic shoes, we asked Nice Kicks readers on our Facebook page and members of our staff to tell us what sneaker kicked off their obsession. Be sure to share which pair got you hooked and why in the comments below.
Ian Stonebrook
The Reebok Shaqnosis made me a sneakerhead. Back in the summer of ?96, I was visiting family in Indiana and I was only one year removed from falling in love with basketball. I?d been rocking Olajuwon kicks before, but I really wanted to catch up be like my big cousin who was a Shaq fan. During that Crawfordsville stay, my mom and sister returned from a shopping trip with a blue sneaker box. My sister played it off like they were for her, but I knew they were all mine. I rocked them the first day of third grade and have been hooked ever since.
