The Air Jordan X shows an important landmark in Jordan's basketball career. This represents Jordan's first retirement from the NBA.
  This Air Jordan shoe  was also known as "the comeback sneaker" because while the Air Jordan 5 was in the production stages, Jordan was seemingly finished with basketball and had taken up the game of baseball. But as baseball went on strike, Jordan was left with nothing to do and decided to return to the game he had dominated for so many years. He returned to the game of basketball on March 19, 1995 wearing the Air Jordan X’s, but unlike many other of his shoes which had the number “23” engraved in them, the air jordan X’s had the number “45” on them. We think that Jordan was forced to wear the number 45, because his old number 23 had been retired.