The Air Jordan X (10) was first released in 1994/95.

Michaels new found baseball career was interrupted when a player strike broke out. Rumours broke out that he would return to the basketball court and on March 19th 1995 Jordan was back on the floor.
The Air Jordan 10 was released in 1994-95 despite Jordan’s absence from the NBA. The Air Jordan 10 featured a different shape than the previous Jordan shoes did.

Too bad for Mike (but good for all of his followers), baseball went on strike thus leaving Jordan hanging with nothing to do - that is if he didn’t return to the NBA. Sure enough, Jordan shocked everyone when he returned from retirement on March 19, 1995. Since his jersey had been retired, he had to go back onto the court wearing #45 until the technicalities were cleared out of the way.
It seemed as if Nike wasn’t expecting to see Jordan back in the game so soon. Nike started to re-release older model’s of the Air Jordan series (Air Jordan 1, Air Jordan 2, Air Jordan 3) and the Air Jordan 10 soles featured an honor or an award from each year Michael had spent in the NBA.

Apart from these soles the design was no real surprise and was overall very plain. Tinker Hatfield picked up a few design elements from previous models and you could see some obvious signs of influence from the Air Jordan 3’s, the Air Jordan 5’s and the Air Jordan 6’s.
If the Air Jordan 9’s had a lot of different samples, the Air Jordan 10’s were even worse. There were a lot of different team colors that were produced in limited quantities and there were samples with numbers for a lot of different players in the NBA. As Michael wore number 45 when he returned there were also samples with #45 stitched on the shoes.

These Nike Air Jordan X 10 Retro CHICAGO Sneakers feature the classic White/Varsity Red-Black colourway.