The GH2 sold roughly 1.5 million pairs and single-handedly made FILA a basketball brand — the biggest non-Nike signature success of the mid-'90s.
Pre-injury Hill was the do-everything heir to Jordan — grace, playmaking, and All-NBA polish at forward.
For a moment in 1996, the coolest shoe in basketball wasn't a Nike. The FILA Grant Hill 2 moved ~1.5 million pairs and turned an Italian tennis label into a legitimate hoops brand. Hill signed a lifetime deal with FILA in 2018 to keep the retros alive, with Hall of Fame drops, Team USA editions and designer collabs appearing periodically.
Retro announcements land in the same alert as new signatures.