It's Official: Adidas shoes are bad for the knees!!!

^^^Loved those Jet Flights!

I remember wearing my Blue/Whites this the soles were smooth as butter and the plastic eyelets broke.
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Originally Posted by NobleKane

Originally Posted by ACBboyz84

More athletes were injured while wearing Adidas than Nike though.
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and how would you know this? i bet your assumption is incorrect. more athletes wear nike in the nba than adidas. no way in hell there are more athletes getting injured in adidas...
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Im basing the on the number of this season . Look up a few post to see my list of injured players who wear Adidas this year

It's not an assumption . It's actual counts . I watch a lot of basketball . Lately there have been a lot of injured Adidas athletes. Especially from 2010 and up.
 
And yeap i also forgot to add Shumpert. So the number of injured Adidas athletes this year come out to be 12 . Now give me 12 injured Nike athletes who injured their knee or ankle this year .

Lol and TNT just reported Tony Allen is having knee pain and didn't practice today. Guess what he wear. Adidas Adizero Rose

Adidas marketing is taking hit left and right
 
I guess some of you already beat me to it. Took me forever to find those pictures 
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If you add up all the athletes I posted along with the ones I missed from the previous 2 posts, I believe that's much more than 12
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You don't watch basketball AT ALL. 
 
I play ball 2x a week in adidas and never had knee or ankle issues. I don't even lace the top hole

in my group of 15-20 friends i play with, at least 6-7 wear adidas and never had an ankle or knee incident

in fact, last week a guy we were playing with broke his ankle BADLY, the bone was sticking out almost breaking the skin, and he was in nikes

your theory is swiss cheese
 
How D.Rose planted his foot off that jump step, he would've busted his knee in ANY sneaker he was wearing.
 
Adidas shoes are actually made with good
Quality and i would put their badketball
Shoes on the second place after nike.
The only thing i dislike with adidas is
Their design.
 
Adidas is taking it left and right from fanboys of Nike that have no intention of buying any other brand. That's about it, the rest of us consumers will make choices that fit our comforts, needs and preferences. Show some real data and I'd listen, fascinating subject but basing it off one season wth limited names and then your own experience isn't enough. Also need to take into account types of injuries and causal relationship from a shoe. And the Jet Flights were good but FPIII still the best I've ever played in
 
I play ball every day in an indoor gym at my uni and I was playing in some 9.5 Lebron 8's for a while but I kept getting blisters so I decided to size down but also try something new with a size 9 adizero rose 2.5.

Been playing in them for about 2 weeks now, maybe 2-3 hours a day. No complaints so far.
 
When pro athletes overexert themselves, they get hurt. Novel concept.

If this was a brand-related issue, you don't think someone would've addressed it by now? I mean if the NBA's jersey provider was producing inadequate shoes, you'd think the NBA would have some concern regarding that, no?
 
Look at the college and NBA teams with players that wear Adidas, ALMOST ALL THE PLAYERS HAVE EITHER A KNEE BRACE OR ANKLE BRACE ON THEM.  Even Derrick Rose, the spokesman for Adidas basketball, came out the gate with knee pads and ankle braces.  Think of ALL THE SUPERSTAR PLAYERS FOR ADIDAS OVER THE PAST 5 YEARS.  KG, Chauncey Billups, Gilbert Arenas, Tmac, Tim Duncan, Eric Gordon.  ALL OF THEM HAD MAJOR KNEE INJURIES OR ANKLE INJURIES, SOME EVEN BOTH.  The only guy I know who hasn't really had any knee or ankle problems is Dwight Howard, and lower back injuries may be due to Adidas' funky cushioning, but I haven't had that experience myself so I can't say.



As a orthopaedic specialist, this is the reason for so many ankle/knee issues. Wearing braces are terrible for your joints. The reason is that the braces restrict the natural movement of the joint and weaken the supporting musculature.

Braces don't prevent injury. Braces are suppose to be worn by people who need that support via a ligamentous injury in which they lack stability of the joint. Braces are a false sense of security. The athletes I deal with, high school, collegiate, and professional have the absolute worst muscle imbalances.
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Originally Posted by rashi

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As a orthopaedic specialist, this is the reason for so many ankle/knee issues. Wearing braces are terrible for your joints. The reason is that the braces restrict the natural movement of the joint and weaken the supporting musculature.

Braces don't prevent injury. Braces are suppose to be worn by people who need that support via a ligamentous injury in which they lack stability of the joint. Braces are a false sense of security. The athletes I deal with, high school, collegiate, and professional have the absolute worst muscle imbalances.






this is true. 
 
Originally Posted by illwill24

I don't know whether or not to put this is in the sneaker review section, but after just seeing Josh Smith go out with a knee injury, I have to let it be known.
Maybe an Adidas rep can read this and understand the issues with their shoes, but I've been saying it for years, ADIDAS SHOES ARE BAD FOR YOUR KNEES AND ANKLES.

Look at the college and NBA teams with players that wear Adidas, ALMOST ALL THE PLAYERS HAVE EITHER A KNEE BRACE OR ANKLE BRACE ON THEM.  Even Derrick Rose, the spokesman for Adidas basketball, came out the gate with knee pads and ankle braces.  Think of ALL THE SUPERSTAR PLAYERS FOR ADIDAS OVER THE PAST 5 YEARS.  KG, Chauncey Billups, Gilbert Arenas, Tmac, Tim Duncan, Eric Gordon.  ALL OF THEM HAD MAJOR KNEE INJURIES OR ANKLE INJURIES, SOME EVEN BOTH.  The only guy I know who hasn't really had any knee or ankle problems is Dwight Howard, and lower back injuries may be due to Adidas' funky cushioning, but I haven't had that experience myself so I can't say.

This isn't just hearsay.  I used to wear Nikes exclusively, until a few years ago I started wearing Adidas basketball shoes for basketball.  That's when my knee started hurting after wearing them exclusively for a couple of months.  Something didn't feel right, especially since I never had a knee injury before.  So I started wearing Nikes again.  No knee problems.

I bought the Derrick Rose kicks last year for summer ball.  Last fall I severely sprained my ankle going for a rebound, and I was out of basketball for a month.  I told myself I would never wear those shoes again.  Was wearing some old Nike beaters till Christmas when I got a pair of Crazy 8's.  Again I started getting a funny pain in my knee.  So I stopped playing in them, being that I never had that pain before.  

One day I decided to wear the old Derrick Rose's again just for kicks, playing 3 on 3.  I ROLLED BOTH MY ANKLES so severely I was scared to play anymore.  I threw the shoes off and left out in my flip flops, I don't know if someone picked them up or not but I was not taking them back home.  And I understand that anyone can roll their ankles in any given game, but I NEVER HAVE THESE PROBLEMS IN NIKE SHOES.  Man right now I'm hooping in Nike cross trainers, and I have had ZERO ankle or knee problems.  I use some old Lebron Soldiers 3 to hoop in these days, I'm not hooping in my J's!!

So I just shake my head everytime I see another Adidas shoe-wearing basketball player go down with a lower leg injury.  Adidas needs to get it together, I would never wear Adidas to play any sport in.  Their gear is fresh to me, and I would still wear the shoes for casual wear, but my body refuses to let me wear them for ball.  The new Crazy Light's look nice, but after seeing Josh Smith go down on a freak injury, I think I'm gonna pass.

Now if you play ball casually, like a few times out of the month, then go ahead and hoop in Adidas if you want.  But if you play A LOT, like every other day, then the shoes will take a toll on you.  Once I started hooping every day and wearing Adidas, that's when the problems started.  Even in this lockout season, you see the players who hoop in Kobe's, Lebron's, Hyperfuses, NO KNEE OR ANKLE PROBLEMS.  Shoot half the players wear lowtop Nikes nowadays and they don't even have any ankle or knee problems.  

People don't take my word for it.  Take Derrick Rose, take Iman Shumpert.  Take Josh Smith or Eric Gordon.  Listen to your knees.
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I hope Nike is paying you....
Adidas Soccer > Nike Soccer
 
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