Durant's team did a great job of pushing Nike to 30 a year contract for 10 years by pinning UA against them. Here is were the agents make their money and leak information creatively. Would not be surprised if Nike counters after losing Curry to UA. The Beard is great for marketing.
Bill Russell just needed Chucks <iframe src="https://vine.co/v/M9wLe6iumdU/embed/simple" width="600" height="600" frameborder="0"></iframe><script src="https://platform.vine.co/static/scripts/embed.js"></script>
He could potentially join his future brother in law, Kanye, as the faces of Adidas. Meanwhile, Khole loves this news...
Adidas repping another Houston Rockets star shooting guard!? Tinman faints. Spoiler 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 I had 4, 5 & TS Lightspeed back in the day. Not sure if it matters or not but he could presumably be the face of Adidas basketball or just one of many with Nike(+Jordan). Either way, he deserves his own line,
Russell didn't have to deal with cell phones, electricity, computers, and image as much... Things that curse the modern superstar athlete.
I wear the Adidas Tmac TS edition. A little heavy compared to basketball shoes today but fits the best
I'm not at all saying shoes aren't important, but you guys really believe "shoe technology" would leave some players more injury prone than others? Because opening up a shoe to copy the technology is so difficult? lol
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Adidas has signed Heat G Justise Winslow & Wizards G Kelly Oubre Jr. to shoe deals. Two exciting & dynamic rookie wings.</p>— Nick DePaula (@_NDP) <a href="https://twitter.com/_NDP/status/628252442715533312">August 3, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Heard that James was "extremely pissed" that Kyrie got a Nike sig shoe before him. (Which I think was the right call from Nike's POV.)</p>— Nick DePaula (@_NDP) <a href="https://twitter.com/_NDP/status/628269585586741248">August 3, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>