Basketball shoe sales have plummeted to just 4% of the sneaker market

[Xennial]

Definitely a diff era than when I was coming up, back then everybody where I was from wore basketball shoes as casual shoes from Jordans, Pennys, Barkleys, Pippens, even Fila Grant Hills etc.

The basketball shoe industry is being crushed by the athleisure wave - MarketWatch

Basketball shoe sales have plummeted to just 4% of the sneaker market.

www.marketwatch.com

 

[donpoppa]

shoes look too technical now.

 

[noblekane]

people want the shoes the players wear but the companies wont release them.

you cant charge 200 for lebrons and he only wears them once then rocks all kinds of player editions the rest of the season

 

[nawghtyhare]

Shoes be looking trash
That’s why
Yeah may have better tech in em
But still look trash

 

[blakep267]

I just think in the past you had like Christmas Day Lebron a, Kobe’s Durants, all star versions etc. now you don’t have that. Plus Lebrons have definitely went downhill design wise and the price has increased. They are too busy and there’s barely any branding on them

 

[freakydestroyer]

People dont care about them except for the Annual Jordan XI.

 

[richiecotite]

Runners and other casual shoes are way more acceptable now.
when I was coming up,the only acceptable alternatives to sneakers were timberlands, or wallabee

 

[richiecotite]

Article written by Nick DePaula. I remember he used to a member here.

didn’t he screw over a couple of folks on this side by exposing Nike product testers that used to drop release info and pics early? Then defected over to sole Collector? dude used to be all about the air zoom flights

 

[shogun]

Yeah, guy is a traitor. I think he snitched on rockdeep. Weird seeing him work for espn now and talk to rachel nichols about sneakers.

 

[freakydestroyer]

Yeah, guy is a traitor. I think he snitched on rockdeep. Weird seeing him work for espn now and talk to rachel nichols about sneakers.

The funny part was NT sided with Rockdeep and then he turned out to be a scammer.

 

[ninjahood]

Definitely a diff era than when I was coming up, back then everybody where I was from wore basketball shoes as casual shoes from Jordans, Pennys, Barkleys, Pippens, even Fila Grant Hills etc.

The basketball shoe industry is being crushed by the athleisure wave - MarketWatch

Basketball shoe sales have plummeted to just 4% of the sneaker market.

www.marketwatch.com

i would be suspicious of da count if they categorized old retros as "casual sneakers" like uptowns.

Also nike/JB runs 80% of da basketball sneaker market so all this article tells me is, outta 4% of da total footwear being sold being basketball sneakers, Nike/JB runs it, as in Adidas/Under Armour, etc. is sucking air in that respect.

 

[noblekane]

would yeezys be considerred basketball?

 

[Arthur Shelby]

would yeezys be considerred basketball?

 

[youngthundercat]

reality is nobody is putting out fire basketball shoes that cross over to casuals...Bron so inconsistent with it.

kyrie, KDs and pgs are great for hoops but i cant rock them outside of that.


ill stick to my retro game.

 

[vood99]

shoes look too technical now.

people want the shoes the players wear but the companies wont release them.

you cant charge 200 for lebrons and he only wears them once then rocks all kinds of player editions the rest of the season

Both of the above and I'll add that the materials they run on these joints don't lend themselves to casual wear either.

 

[ninjahood]

kyrie

those actually have da best casual appeal of all da current sigs.

VI's in black/white nets in on my radar.

 

[calibeebee]

I mean, how you supposed to rock this with casual clothes?

 

[(*Fin)]

I rock Kobe’s casually from the IV’s-VI’s, VIII’s, IX lows, and XI’s.

 

[dexterwiggle]

people want the shoes the players wear but the companies wont release them.

you cant charge 200 for lebrons and he only wears them once then rocks all kinds of player editions the rest of the season

I think this is dead on. Back when, dudes wore same model in 2 maybe 3 colorways for a whole season. Now dudes got stories and 58 colorways for a season. like a joint on the radio all day, I grows on u.

 

[ninjahood]

I mean, how you supposed to rock this with casual clothes?

that silhouette has never been good for casual wear, air force Mids are shaped like that, those are ugly air Force XXV's are da same shape.

 

[calibeebee]

I rock Kobe’s casually from the IV’s-VI’s, VIII’s, IX lows, and XI’s.

post a pic of yourself rocking Kobe ad nxt with something other than shorts or sweats on. Can’t do it. BET

 

[jape]

Basketball shoes are ugly
Look terrible with casual clothing

 

[ALNotSure]

Too ugly, too expensive, too ugly, ugly designs, ugly colorways.

 

[shotsrangout]

only people still wearing basketball shoes with jeans are kids. ain’t nobody trying to dress like a kid.

 

[nawghtyhare]

only people still wearing basketball shoes with jeans are kids. ain’t nobody trying to dress like a kid.

sig jordans are basketball shoes
all the retros
so are barkleys and air forces
and see grownups
every day wearing em