as far as the shoe game goes

give me a pair of white adidas rat balls with the real gum sole and ill wear em till they fall off, or all green adidas phantoms, or any solid color for that matter, or the blue and white adidas top 10 feet you wear. and lets think for a second, maybe the reason that i prefer so many athletes that support the swoosh, is because nike prefers to sponsor a particular type of athlete, that will appeal to a particular type of customer(see and1, and the stupid bullshit they put out). and all that aside nikes designs are far superior to all the other shoe companies, but thats just my opinion, and im just a designer, and shoe collector. as far as converse goes, you know their performance basketball has been weak for a long time. but still i have liked a couple pairs here and there, and i actually bout a pair of the converse weapons before nike bout converse. and now that nike owns converse arent the shoes and designs and marketing getting much much better? coincidence? my favorite centers are hakeem and david robinson. did you see the 34.99 spaldings hakeem put out, they were ugly, thanks spalding! what did nike do with david robinson? made the most supportive and technologically advanced basketball shoe, adjustable pump supprt, 180 air cushioning, not to mention platter painted midsole and modern design. its easy to like nike, or maybe they just appeal to me. im a BMW guy, i dont like mercedes, they just dont appeal to me. dont like the designs or logos or marketing as much as BMW stuff, i just dont feel it. maybe since im middle class white kid, and nike is trying to market to me, nike makes sense to me, but id like to think its because they have the most modern, original and cutting edge designs and technologies. for the most part i buy my shoes based on design first, then functionality, then endorsement.

so lets see, favorite player lebron(nike), ive never liked baron davis(and he wore nike at one time), tony parker love him(nike), smoosh parker(nike), larry hughes wears nike and i fucking hate him, jason kidd love him(nike), vince carter i hated him with and 1, with puma, and now with nike, i wont buy his shoes, ginobli love him(nike), steve nash love him(nike), dwade (since nike took over the designs are getting better, and i was actually just looking at the new one with the camo midsole last night, ill probably get a pair, cus the design is good, and the player is good), i could go on and on but lets move on to adidas. antoine walker hate(adidas), tmac hate(adidas), gil zero dont get it(adidas), dwight howard (adidas)cant relate to just a tall athletic big man, same reason i never owned a pair of shaqs(robinson and hakkem had moves and could shoot, easier to identify with)chauncy billups how did he even get a fucking shoe(adidas). garnnett love him, but you gotta admit he had some of the illest most cutting edge shoes when he was with nike, now he "shares" a shoe with 4 other guys, thanks adidas, and his and 1s were ugly too, and expensive. look, the gils are cool, its not a bad design, and the colors are cool, just not a big fan of gil, and the design isnt poerful enough to over power the fact that adidas designs are usally far inferior to nike, and i can hardly relate to their athletes.