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One day you will understand how Step-Throughs work.Like I said before, I think you have a mental/emotional block there thst doesn't allow you to understand it.
So I left it alone.
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One day you will understand how Step-Throughs work.Like I said before, I think you have a mental/emotional block there thst doesn't allow you to understand it.
So I left it alone.
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Carmelo will be crying when he gets 7 minutes a game when he returns.
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The group chat is on fire this morning about whether people believe this
. I personally don’t think it’s far fetched. Others seem to think the idea of him being that upset with Nike seems like BS, given that his shoes were still moving very well. I just think we underestimate the egos of these guys.
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God bless the dead. That’s an ugly shoe though.
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Tbf, Nike was kinda dropping the ball on his later models and I'm not sure how well they were selling so I could buy him possibly being dissatisfied with them at one point.
Just tough seeing an actual separation given how intertwined his brand became with them
Just tough seeing an actual separation given how intertwined his brand became with them
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Those are way out there, not good, not bad, but way out there
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This has nothing to do with ego. Nike wants to make money off these guys names and likeness, but never want to give them any actual creative control hence why you see guys leave them after being with them for a while. Black man wants ownership.The group chat is on fire this morning about whether people believe this
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What does he get out of releasing that information now?
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A guy I know who is pretty high up at Nike is pounding the table that its false for what its worth. But the evidence is there I have stayed out of it, my only commentary was that Nike totally fumbled the Kobe line so it makes sense.The group chat is on fire this morning about whether people believe this
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Nike basketball been TRASH for years. Their lifestyle shoes look wayyyyyyyyy better. I don’t understand it. Shoes like the Marty McFlys and all their 90s and 2000s stuff was groundbreaking. We are in the year 2021 and all their shoes look generic as hell.
KD, Giannis, Kyrie, and PGs shoes look like Paul Pierce joints from when I was a kid. If Nike were making Kyrie and KD type shoes in the 90s, them joints would be $49.99 off rip.
KD, Giannis, Kyrie, and PGs shoes look like Paul Pierce joints from when I was a kid. If Nike were making Kyrie and KD type shoes in the 90s, them joints would be $49.99 off rip.
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Nike definitely fumbling the Kobe protro line since his passing, but that was a given.
The basketball line iteself has been rather stale for years.
The basketball line iteself has been rather stale for years.
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Spot on. What I said was that The Jordan line has caused people to conflate what a basketball shoe and a lifestyle shoe is. Now every basketball shoe is expected to have casual appeal when that's just impossible. Not even every Jordan has that.
Kobes just never had any real casual appeal, it was a true hooping shoe. Thats what I liked about it.
Its a way more complicated topic than just it not selling, in order to make it sell you would have had to change the entire aesthetic of the Kobe line. The apparel is where Nike missed truly he had the biggest real brand of them all IMO. Everything Bron does branding wise on clothes looks terrible. KD too his logo looks like a kid drew it.
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y’all acting like Nike wasn’t making ugly *** shoes in the 90s and early 2000s too
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I believe the Kobe story. We know he was entrepreneurial, ambitious, liked challenges and wasn’t afraid to use leverage to get what he wanted. Seems totally plausible to me that he’d think through starting his own shoe company.
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I don’t think that we’re saying anything different. Ego is definitely involved, though.
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When they went to the lows, all of them looked exactly the same to me. The lack of imagination didn’t make any sense to me given the player. Should’ve been all hands on deck
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Basketball shoes being lifestyle shoes mainly applies to our generation though. The kids will wear concords and the other flagship Jordan’s but that’s it. Not sure what the answer is
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Brons could be worn casually up until the last couple of years
And KD 4s could as well
And KD 4s could as well
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Nah man I just throw on timbs instead of wearing Bron’s. Basically the same thing though
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