LeBron's new $315 Nikes

[csfansince60s]

Starbury's under $20 sneakers and clothes line that would be affordable to inner-city youth:

"Marbury grew up in Brooklyn, and as a child could not afford the high end basketball sneakers. He hopes he can use his power as an athlete to give a child who is in the same situation he was in an opportunity to buy a nice pair of sneakers. Marbury hopes the cheap price tag won’t put off kids interested in buying, “Steve & Barry’s and I want to tell people all over the country that the game is over; being cool isn’t about a price tag. Cool is about being a responsible person, taking care of your family, and spreading love to the world in whatever way you can. I’m fortunate to be in a position to try and make that happen, and feel blessed to have the opportunity to carry our message from New York to Los Angeles and so many places in between.”

http://my.hsj.org/schools/newspaper/tabid/100/view/frontpage/schoolid/371/articleid/103031/basketball_sneakers_for_15_marbury.aspx

.......vs. this LeBroid crap. Man is this society messed up.

[SHAQATTACK]

I'm gettin me sum dem bad boys .

gonna paints em  Celtic GREEN   

[Valentines_at_Popeyes]

[GreenFaith1819]

Hopefully, come about late May or early June 2013 timeframe, we can put LeBron and these sneakers out to pasture......

[Amonkey]

I know it's a lot of money, but we've gotta put into context. From what I understand there is some electronics stuff that goes with the shoes that is supposed to do something. I would know more except the Yahoo articles are horrible and that's all they said about that. Does anybody else know what else comes with it and what does the electronic stuff do?

[raynman]

I know it's a lot of money, but we've gotta put into context. From what I understand there is some electronics stuff that goes with the shoes that is supposed to do something. I would know more except the Yahoo articles are horrible and that's all they said about that. Does anybody else know what else comes with it and what does the electronic stuff do?

I think they measure EGO.. 

[action781]

Starbury's under $20 sneakers and clothes line that would be affordable to inner-city youth:

"Marbury grew up in Brooklyn, and as a child could not afford the high end basketball sneakers. He hopes he can use his power as an athlete to give a child who is in the same situation he was in an opportunity to buy a nice pair of sneakers. Marbury hopes the cheap price tag won’t put off kids interested in buying, “Steve & Barry’s and I want to tell people all over the country that the game is over; being cool isn’t about a price tag. Cool is about being a responsible person, taking care of your family, and spreading love to the world in whatever way you can. I’m fortunate to be in a position to try and make that happen, and feel blessed to have the opportunity to carry our message from New York to Los Angeles and so many places in between.”

http://my.hsj.org/schools/newspaper/tabid/100/view/frontpage/schoolid/371/articleid/103031/basketball_sneakers_for_15_marbury.aspx

.......vs. this LeBroid crap. Man is this society messed up.

Makes starbury amazingly look like a role model

[pearljammer10]

This is so disgusting I can barely handle it.

[bdm860]

I'm not a sneaker head, but this doesn't seem outrageous at all to me.

Remember the Nike Foamposite's that came out in '97 that Penny wore:


Those retailed at $180 in '97, that's $256 in 2012 dollars, while somebody already mentioned that the regular LeBron shoes will retail for only like $180.

Also I'm sure one of our resident sneaker heads like darklord can help me out, but hasn't there been plenty of special edition Jordans with equally outrageous price tags. The ones that come in the special box, or the steel case or whatever, how much did/do those retail for at the time?  Then just put the price in this calculator for 2012 dollars.

I'm not sure what this Nike+ does, but I can see how a lot of people would like it and pay extra for it. (Measure and chart my vertical, speed, quickness, endurance, improvement, etc.?  I would think a lot of serious athletes or wannabe athletes would be down for that.)

You can't really measure the cost of something by the "premium package" price.  The shoe goes for $180, a lot of money, but fair market value compared to what other name-brand, player-endorsed basketball shoes retail for.

[makaveli]

Do these come with the same ref mind-control chip that LeRoid has?

lol TP

[pearljammer10]

This dude actually explains the shoes quite well... He really makes a good argument on how useful they could be for the nba statwise. In the end could be somewhat revolutionary for the sport



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Steve Kyler
That shoe isn’t being targeted to you… there are two versions of the shoe… the Nike+ tech version of shoe thats going to retail for about $290 in a very limited run. Then there is the commercial version of the shoe which will drop at about $180 a pair.

The Nike+ technology is a new concept that all shoe companies are running with that have senors in the shoe that allow you to measure how high you jump, how fast you run and use that data to build training programs, to measure yourself against others and to chart your improvement as a player.

The tech is pretty cool, because you attach a senor to your iDevice and it records data from your shoes into an app. Thats data can be used in a dozens of new ways including in the video game world. There has been some talk that this kind of stuff will make its way in the NBA during actual games. I have heard we might see it during the All-Star game in Houston.

Imagine if you could see if a player was dogging it. You could see his performance on court based on his previous game or what his numbers were at the start of the game. Imagine what that could do for coaches and substitutions? An assistant coach looks at the iPad and says Dwyane Wade is jumping 20% less or his foot speed has decreased 20%… time to take him out. That amazing fast break… how fast was he running… How high was that Gerald Green 360 dunk?

I think too many people have heard that LeBron shoe is gonna be $300 and never bothered to check the facts on why.

[Eja117]

This dude actually explains the shoes quite well... He really makes a good argument on how useful they could be for the nba statwise. In the end could be somewhat revolutionary for the sport



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Steve Kyler
That shoe isn’t being targeted to you… there are two versions of the shoe… the Nike+ tech version of shoe thats going to retail for about $290 in a very limited run. Then there is the commercial version of the shoe which will drop at about $180 a pair.

The Nike+ technology is a new concept that all shoe companies are running with that have senors in the shoe that allow you to measure how high you jump, how fast you run and use that data to build training programs, to measure yourself against others and to chart your improvement as a player.

The tech is pretty cool, because you attach a senor to your iDevice and it records data from your shoes into an app. Thats data can be used in a dozens of new ways including in the video game world. There has been some talk that this kind of stuff will make its way in the NBA during actual games. I have heard we might see it during the All-Star game in Houston.

Imagine if you could see if a player was dogging it. You could see his performance on court based on his previous game or what his numbers were at the start of the game. Imagine what that could do for coaches and substitutions? An assistant coach looks at the iPad and says Dwyane Wade is jumping 20% less or his foot speed has decreased 20%… time to take him out. That amazing fast break… how fast was he running… How high was that Gerald Green 360 dunk?

I think too many people have heard that LeBron shoe is gonna be $300 and never bothered to check the facts on why.

I totally agree I never checked why the shoe is $300 or why that super cool head band is $100 or why the NBA jersey made in Mexico is $75 and I don't need a shoe to tell me if Bron is dogging it.

[dtrader]

This shouldn't even be a story. The shoe is $180. The set includes other stuff that brings the price higher.  The original Nike penny "foamposites" we're released in 1997, and sold for $200 (as far as I remember.  Plus the Nike Jayne west signature shoes have a retail price of $215 (the first version), but sold for between 350-500 the day of their release, because stores jacked the prices up. A $300 shoe hasn't really been notable for a long time.

[ACF]

I was not particularly shocked, I mostly wanted to post it because I saw no one else had. Maybe they're not the cheapest sneakers but whatever. I've paid around $250 for pairs of Air Jordan in the past so I'm guilty as well 

[P2]

I like Adidas more, anyway.