Beard will add his own unique touch. The woven "prime knit" upper on these is absolutely wicked. Only wish these bad boys had full length boost as they currently lack ideal forefoot cushioning. Maple Jordan will be wearing the exact same kicks this season and his PEs actually look pretty slick. Still holding out hope that the Harden Ones will resemble my custom Kobe 8s .
Heres good reason to hope that Hardens signature shoe will be beautiful and well designed. Couldn't find a better article that mentions 3 of Nike's top designers defecting over to Adidas earlier in the year...Anyway here is one that mentions it. http://www.complex.com/sneakers/2015/06/nike-designers-lawsuit-settled
Why are adidas basketball kicks always so clunky looking? They always look like something Marvin Martian would wear.
These were the best. Tmac's shoes - since then nothing like this. Great rubber up top for guys in the paint who get stepped on. Man I wish I had like 10 pairs of these
generic and boring... Addidas will continue to languish if they don't come out with something better by the 1st quarter of 2016. By something better, I mean a signature shoe for Harden that is much more interesting and captivating than these if they want to recoup ANY of the 200 million they'll invest in him. Until they do, they'll continue to fall behind Under Armour (passed adidas last year in sales of sports apparel) and even Sketchers (passed Adidas this year in total sneaker sales/market share).
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Harden adjusting his new Adidas shoes. He says he's still getting comfortable with them. <a href="https://t.co/3DX1aC0UQH">pic.twitter.com/3DX1aC0UQH</a></p>— ClutchFans (@clutchfans) <a href="https://twitter.com/clutchfans/status/649669994976964608">October 1, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Here's hoping Harden took the structural design of his Nike's and gave them to Adidas before he starts wearing their shoes. Bought my son a pair of Adidas a few weeks ago. Looked like he was running with flat feet in today's game. Asked him afterwards what was wrong and he said his heels hurt. Asked him how long they've been hurting and he said a couple weeks. That's when we got him the Adidas shoes! Needless to say, we're heading out later today to pick up a pair of Nike for him. Only bought Adidas because a: they were a good price, b: they looked ok and c: Harden's moved to Adidas. Never worn Adidas for basketball before and won't go back. Not saying others aren't better or that was definitely the reason. But a huge co-incidence I'm hoping Harden doesn't experience.
Adidas is the Blue Bell ice cream of shoes. I've bought their shoes and it's like they don't test run them. Simple fixable errors that cause major foot pain. They look nice though
Probably not hard for them to do that, but who knows how many silly patents shoe companies have on their designs. It's probably like software, where everything you make violates a patent in some company's basement somewhere.
every adidas shoe i've bought in the past two years leaves me with heel pain. i don't think boasting about how "light" a shoe is matters, what matters is if it will support your dang feet. and yes, i keep buying adidas because i thought "oh those zx flux are nice. those john walls are nice. those runners are nice." and every single shoe i've purchased has been bad. i keep saying not even harden will convince me to get another pair, but i am very impressionable, so we'll see.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Exclusive // James Harden's clean all-white <a href="https://twitter.com/adidasHoops">@adidasHoops</a> Crazy Light Boost PEs in detail: <a href="https://t.co/W1woxbWfc7">https://t.co/W1woxbWfc7</a> <a href="https://t.co/65F3Ci5wz9">pic.twitter.com/65F3Ci5wz9</a></p>— Nick DePaula (@_NDP) <a href="https://twitter.com/_NDP/status/657319663659978752">October 22, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
