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What are you talking about?Let's see if we can clear up your misunderstanding.
You've never criticized Gilbert Arenas or Adidas for doing the same thing that you're now taking Kobe Bryant and Nike to task for.
While Nike's released lowtop versions of popular shoes for years (including Air Jordans), they obviously weren't the first to sell lowtop basketball shoes. The only thing "special" in this case is that you're dealing with a signature model that is, by default, a lowtop. Again, Gilbert Arenas did that before Kobe Bryant. Back then, you didn't utter so much as a peep of criticism.
If your gripe is that Kobe's "influenced many fans to wear lows," what of Gilbert Arenas - who arguably influenced Kobe Bryant to do the same?
It's insincere. If your primary motive in all this were simply to make people aware of the "evidence" about lowtops, you'd have done so when Gilbert Arenas was literally wearing running shoes on the court. You didn't and the reason for that is obvious.
I think users deserve to know that NobleKane works for Nike and that you have a grudge AGAINST Nike (and, not coincidentally, NobleKane), so that readers can treat your respective rants/tangents accordingly. Your opinions (and I include him in this statement as well) are motivated less by facts than the circumstances of your lives and are presented not in service to the public but in service to your own private agendas.
I am not taking Nike to task for anything, at least not on this subject in particular. I simply stated that regardless of the cut of the shoe, you can still get injured in them, IF the shoe does not support you properly. The pics of Kobe twisting his ankle proves that point, where some stated that they've never gotten injured in lows. Well, Kobe DID get injured in his, with nobody around him, not even landing on someone's foot. Point is, that many Niketalkers didn't want to wear lows, not until Nike made the low cut shoe for Kobe Bryant.
In regard to Arenas wearing running shoes on court, those shoes were NIKE running shoes. When that happened, I didn't have a clue as to what a Nike Talk was.
Da' hell?
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