1 colorway of the Jordan Air Jordan 4 Retro (GS) on SoleBook.
The Air Jordan 4 first landed in 1989, Tinker Hatfield's follow-up to the AJ3 and the shoe Michael Jordan wore for "The Shot" against Cleveland. Its visible mesh netting panels, molded support wings, and exposed foam midsole struts marked a clear technical jump from earlier Jordans, blending running-shoe engineering with basketball performance. By the mid-90s it had already become a retro fixture, reissued repeatedly as Jordan Brand built its retro program into a business of its own. The Air Jordan 4 Retro (GS) tag reflects Jordan Brand's grade-school sizing line, which by the mid-2000s had become essential to meeting demand from a younger, sneakerhead-adjacent audience that grew up on Jumpman marketing rather than Jordan's actual playing career. A 2006 GS drop would have arrived as retro culture was accelerating, with colorways like "Black Cement" and "White Cement" cycling back through stores and resale markets starting to take shape online. GS releases in this era typically retailed well below adult pricing, making the silhouette accessible to a generation discovering the AJ4 through collaborations, media, and hip-hop culture rather than courtside history.