The past few years have been an exercise in Nike turning over every stone in the Air Max family history. Models like the Nike Air Max TL 2.5, Air Max Plus VII, or Air Max Dolce stand out, each certainly making an impact in their initial market runs but never quite becoming true faces of the catalog, ones that consumers clamored for time and time again in the time since.

Equally, we don’t mean to imply that there aren’t any folks who called for the return of the Air Max 2000, now titled the Air Max Ecstasy Plus. For the “if you know, you know” crowd, assuredly this bring-back has been welcome news, as well as for those who appreciate when Nike closes the loop on something they tease; the Supreme Air Max 2000 was a tacit promise that the Y2K icon would eventually see the light of day in a general release capacity.…