It Appears A Guy Found A Pair Of Player Exclusive Jordan's Worn By Ray Allen At A Goodwill Store

Let's first address that it's 2025 and I very much could be getting duped because a big question ANYTIME you see a video nowadays is "is it real?" A lot of these type of videos pop up on my timeline and you always wonder if the guy brought the super rare shoes in himself and placed them down to set up the video. I honestly never know which way it could go with these videos, but IF and that could be a big IF this video is real, what a score for this guy at Goodwill. 

Let's first take it back to the mid 2000's. The internet was rocking, but it was still very much internet 1.0 and during free periods in high school when you got to use a computer (after telling the guy who ran the tech center - RIP BD- it was 100% for school work- but it 100% wasn't) there were like 6-7 websites it felt like everyone went on. It's been so long I don't remember then all, but one obviously being a free games website, and the other was one for sneaker news. I can't remember the name but it was black background and red lettering and there were threads on Jordan releases and people asking advice for what shoes to wear to prom, and guys sharing how to fix a pair of broken soles, people making custom Jordan colorways on photoshop, and a thread of PE exclusives. PE was Player Edition and they were super rare. Guys like Quentin Richardson and Mike Bibby and Ray Allen were spotted wearing J's in colors for their team that you literally couldn't get in stores. I wasn't even a sneaker head plus it was hard to convince your parents to help pony up $ for kicks you weren't going to wear on the court as my high school team already provided team sneakers, and I would only work in the summers with part time jobs, and had to live vicariously through my best friend who took my on the subway to bad neighborhoods and bought the newest releases with his busboy money. Either way following sneaker news on the internet was kind of the only thing we had to pass the time between classes and without smart phones. You could really only dream about ever getting a PE pair of kicks. How could you ? Be literally related to one of the pro players who had them? It was impossible, unless of course you waited 20 years and happen to stumble into a Goodwill. 

I think only the old heads will really appreciate just how rare a find these are (if its a real video). You are talking about a pair of kicks that have no reason to ever find there way to a store shelf, let alone Goodwill. The young kid inside me hopes this is real and this guy truly appreciates having the rarest of the rare finds. I haven't thought about these kind of kicks in years but this was a nice little trip down memory lane. 

PS- I think via the replies the website was niketalk.com - wish I could see it back in it's 2005 form instead of the one it is now that's been changed 3959939 times (rightfully so)