AFTER THE AIR JORDAN

[The Devil's Advocate]

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.


Art Barr

ain't no way... it's like music, you either get down with someone with big money and connects or you fail

even those "indy" artists have to go through a major to get in stores and get the advertising worldwide like they want.. so even if all 3 of them get 100 million dollar contracts, the billions of nike, adidas and whoever else, will still be using their power and influence to shut them down.. on some "if you stock the lavar ball shoes, we'll remove nike from your store"



the best bet for them is to go the shaq way with walmart.. make a cheap, affordable shoe, that you can flood the market with for 29.99.. walmart doesn't stock the other major 3. and while it sounds cheap and your shoe won't be "hot" you'll make more money off a 50/50 deal there than anything you'll be offered to be a pitch man

nikkas laugh at shaq's shoes.... meanwhile shaq has sold 120 million pairs.. and if he only making $1 a sale (which i'm sure he's making more), that's 120 million dollars.. nike ain't offering ball no damn 120 million dollar contract


money>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>coolness of your shoe


Shaq Says He’s Sold ‘Over 120 Million Pairs Of Affordable Shoes’

 

[PS5 Pro]

....I think Penny's foams have surpassed GH Filas...IMO

I still have these exact shoes.. Never once associated them with penny
Is that penny's logo on it too?

 

[McTwerk]

Most of y'all prob too young to know or remember, but the Magic vs Bird converse back in the day were

 

[Reggie]

I still have these exact shoes.. Never once associated them with penny
Is that penny's logo on it too?

Yep the 1 cent joint.

 

[Danie84]

The Pennys/Hills/Griffeys make a 90s Kid cypher complete

 

[Art Barr]

Most of y'all prob too young to know or remember, but the Magic vs Bird converse back in the day were

The black weapons were fire but it was night and day from my weapons to the first aj I.
The weapon set my moms up for the price point for the sky Jordan I at 35 and later my foot grew and on my third pair of the Jordan I. I got the actual air Jordan I in an adult size six. On the three Nike screwed kids because they raised the air Jordan size limit from six to seven and I had to wait till jc penny was getting Jordan's and behind a shoe.
after I had an adult cement aj four at a legit size seven and I finally got a black cement aj III in an adult Nike air logo back and not the plush back of the sky Jordan iii I had in white.
I was pissed when I got jerked on the three and I had worked moms up to get the hundo II's.


Art Barr

If you thought you wanted to be grown then. Back then was the beginning of the crack Gen and the last slave hand gene generation. where you needed sumfin to make you look a little older and rocking a pair of sky Jordan's when you used to have air Jordan was just some new wave torture. You was gon have to fight over bullshyt like that back then from nikkaz talkin shyt in the midst of the extreme nikkaz feeling themselves time ever. The beginning of the crack I wanna all be in a gang era just to get fresh. shyt was a mad house back then. You could have gotten stained for jordans to a raiders hat easy by knife or gun point as a kid. Especially if you had an adult pair. You could get stained for a kid pair by some nikkaz your age and your size with a group too. So, you had to be on ya square back then. Lord forbids you had a troop, mcm, Gucci, Louie, bk, le coq, or task force jacket. You could have gotten killed for a white c00ntail or a white fox tail hat back then. Black African leather real medallions too when those popped off.

 

[Manuel Hot Pepper Lopez]

I still have these exact shoes.. Never once associated them with penny
Is that penny's logo on it too?

 

[Manuel Hot Pepper Lopez]

 

[Joe Sixpack]

What part of why other than nike do nikkaz not understand.


art barr

Because no other sneakers other than Nike popped

Nike dominates

 

[Art Barr]

Because no other sneakers other than Nike popped

Nike dominates

Breh, no Nike.
Lavar ball ruined the ability to use Nike.
This is a discoveryzone thread to show how Nike became Nike.
To recount the mythos of the Nike air jordan and how only two players at other shoe companies ever recreated a blockbuster bball shoe draw to rival Nike and the times.
We know what Nike is .... hype beast.

Art Barr

 

[ISO]

Glen Rice had a sneaker with Nautica though?

If Tommy Hilfiger made a basketball shoe in it's prime it could have popped crazy

 

[FlyRy]

I say Iverson simply because of this shoe

Aside from those J's that came in the suitcase (17s I think) nikkas went crazy over these. The best non Nike basketball shoe of my lifetime

Breh absolutely no one was going crazy over the 17 highs. Why do you think they never retroed on their own after 15 years?

Those iversons are another story.

I wanted the blue ones back then but they sold out. I had to settle for some all white and silver lows. Best believe I copped the blue toe retros when they came out again 4 or 5 years ago

 

[Art Barr]

Glen Rice had a sneaker with Nautica though?

If Tommy Hilfiger made a basketball shoe in it's prime it could have popped crazy

Polo, nautica, hillfiger shoes all sucked cushioning wise.
That they were worse than the penny I foams with the bubble swoosh.
If you want your feet to die wear a prep shoe clothing company shoe from polo, hillfiger, or nautica.

Art Barr

 

[CarltonJunior]

Curry singlehandedly made UA basketball relevant. Dwyane wade getting mad overseas paper with li ning

 

[Art Barr]

Breh absolutely no one was going crazy over the 17 highs. Why do you think they never retroed on their own after 15 years?

Those iversons are another story.

I wanted the blue ones back then but they sold out. I had to settle for some all white and silver lows. Best believe I copped the blue toe retros when they came out again 4 or 5 years ago

The sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty and twenty one PE all flew off the shelf out in the chi.
Plus get their love.
You not from chicago to say that cause they had a wave.
Even the Citron xi's had a wave in the chi and hypebeast front on them.

Where you from?


Art Barr