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These shoes never had it on fiyah like like that.
They were there in the market place but not setting the world on fire.
Plus, reebok pumps were to expensive and like I said earlier the air force commands were next level to the reebok pumps.
Plus, gave you a higher quality feel for a higher price tag.
that when you compared them, it made them never catch on.
like any nike to rival a pair of jordan's.


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Never copped them when they first dropped. I gotta get a pair, like I did with the "crazy 8's."

To add on the player gotta have flare,aura, charisma to pull people towards the shoe. Lonzo just dull while his bozo father yucks it up.


This.

Lonzo's father, lavar ball never wore no cold ass kix and you can tell.
All cause he is so egotistical.
He has no Frame of reference how hard it is to do this.
Plus, how cool the person in all arenas needs to be to get the product to pop.
Hill, one of rhe coolest cats and success stories from the court to tamia.
Ai, a complete swagged out winner in every facet the gen star.
I don't see Lonzo ball in that manner.
Maybe his father thinks because drake is popular Lonzo is next.
when lavar ball does not realize how much manipulation in positive pr is used by drake.
so drake can get over his child star lame shortcomings.

As lavar is to upnoxious and Lonzo has no it factor.
as even an it player or above the rim guy to do it without rub from nike.
Who knows how to mask players noob issues in the spotlight as well.
as nike ramped up every guy they had in basketball.
Tothr point, I think Agassi was the only really natural nike endorsee originally on camera as well.
So, lavar ball needed nike exactly to make his kid a draw.
Now the only saving grace is that Saucony deal.
All cause Saucony is the only company who still recognizes copying the nike pedigree.
by the indication of posting their aj I ripoff in their post to challenge lonzo ball.
Also, Lonzo ball is not charismatic enough to do kwiss/supra.
So that only leaves le Coq Sportif, as the only flossy company.
he could go to with some mystique and some prestige in retro market to make him interesting enough to market from.
As he could do a will smith bel air style mash up retro run on apparel to get over.
Except it would have to include a helluva marketing campaign to gateway re-intro that old brand and give it new light.
Of which lavar ball would have to be excluded from because of how delicate a reintroduction of le Coq Sportif would have to pushed.
especially after Noah did nuffin with it as well.

The picking is slim now theor is no nike, adidas and ua.
Plus, you don't get to do reebok or converse cause nike and reebok have those sewn up.

So, that leaves:

Dia Dora : who could pull off the look from their recent colorways
Lotto ?
Ellesse ?
New balance : who always drop the ball unless legacy wise they have a bunch of tries.

So, just what is lavar ball doing but ruining his kid's life as an endorsee before he is drafted as as pro.
On a wild wild suggestion,...
Lonzo ball could after he got on.
He could try to ask the guys ask smpl, tonyd2, Bullitt etc to design him a shoe and pay for it and do it organic like that.
Except I do not think lavar ball could be contained to allow those guys to organically create it.
Yet that is the wildest long shot suggestion, I have to save this.
Yet that would have to be done like they were completely viral and Lonzo would have to get along really Realy organically well in the shoe youtube lifestyle market and on camera with smpl of Tony and bull1t, too.
Like he got to be natural with Tony rich and his other cold collector and Tony rich kid too.

That is how wild and a long shot with to many organic grassroots factors have to align
To Save Lonzo ball as a commodity from his father, lavar ball's Stefani Capriarti based meddling and tomfoolery.



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i actually loved the adidas garnett shoe he used during his mvp season

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i know u said no nike but these pippens were my fav shoe other than jordans or iversons. i never saw the appeal of foamposites.
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on the real tho. i could never ball in my j's, filas or nikes. i had some spalding hakeem olajuwon jaunts and these converse kicks i would use daily
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Id argue the Ewing adidas.


That said, I had a white pair of Ewing brand Jawns after the Gang Starr video that crushed so so many empties strewn about the streets that they'd probably go for serious bread on eBay if I still had them.
 

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Id argue the Ewing adidas.


That said, I had a white pair of Ewing brand Jawns after the Gang Starr video that crushed so so many empties strewn about the streets that they'd probably go for serious bread on eBay if I still had them.


The Ewing brand Ewing were hotter than the adidas Kareem's with the big tongue and the adidas ewing's, too.


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i actually loved the adidas garnett shoe he used during his mvp season

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i know u said no nike but these pippens were my fav shoe other than jordans or iversons. i never saw the appeal of foamposites.
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on the real tho. i could never ball in my j's, filas or nikes. i had some spalding hakeem olajuwon jaunts and these converse kicks i would use daily
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The KG got hit because when he jumped to adidas.
td had the higher costing shoe and tech and they never outfitted kg shoe with the same tech to warrant I wanna say a 170 price tag then.

The KG was one of the first really expensive shoes for no reason joint back then and still did not compare to those td catapult like adidas, tho.
The KG did good in the jordan xix era. It was a cosmetically good shoe just to expensive and I believe after they dropped.
the price point of rhe jordan from the suitcase xvii and the later xvii+ with crocodile and mike's PE return shoe.


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The Ewing brand Ewing were hotter than the adidas Kareem's with the big tongue and the adidas ewing's, too.


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No doubt though I can't recall those 'Reems at the moment.


What were the Nique Jawns? Etonic? Did pre H (Akeem) Olajuwon also have an Etonic deal?


Oh timeout, Nique was Avia right?
 

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No doubt though I can't recall those 'Reems at the moment.


What were the Nique Jawns? Etonic? Did pre H (Akeem) Olajuwon also have an Etonic deal?


Oh timeout, Nique was Avia right?


Nique was Brooks and then as this thread illustrates was wtih Reebok and had a pair of pumps.
Scottie was originally with avia.


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it has zero to do with the shoe... half of the jordans were ugly as fukk (most the later years)

also the player had shyt to do with it... kobe's wasn't some must have with adidas or nike



its really on, like most everything, black people determining what shoe is cool and what isn't... AI's first shoe was dope.. the rest not so much... jordans was cool, kobe's wasn't.. shaq had some hypnotizing ugly boks... kemp was swagging with his


if we deem a player as cool as fukk... his shoe becomes hot too
 

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it has zero to do with the shoe... half of the jordans were ugly as fukk (most the later years)

also the player had shyt to do with it... kobe's wasn't some must have with adidas or nike



its really on, like most everything, black people determining what shoe is cool and what isn't... AI's first shoe was dope.. the rest not so much... jordans was cool, kobe's wasn't.. shaq had some hypnotizing ugly boks... kemp was swagging with his


if we deem a player as cool as fukk... his shoe becomes hot too


So, give us a suggestion on how you speculate lavar ball can salvage lonzo ball's endorsement deals.

It would be great to hear everyone's suggestions on that.
All cause that brother need some help.


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