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Basketball shoes are sneakers designed specifically for playing basketball. Special shoe designs for basketball have existed since the 1920s. This list includes major brands of basketball shoe, listed by manufacturer and year of introduction.
During the 1926–27 season Taylor also served as a player-manager of the company-sponsored basketball team called the Converse All Stars. The Chicago-based touring team was established to promote sales of the company's All Star basketball shoes. [8] Numerous professional basketball players were soon wearing All Stars.
Most American basketball players wore Chuck Taylor All Stars between the mid-1920s and the 1970s. Converse All Stars were also the official basketball shoe of the Olympic games from 1936 until 1968. By the 1960s Converse had captured about 70 to 80 percent of the basketball shoe market before the company's sales declined.
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"Second Generation" [a] is a 2006 television advertisement introducing Nike's Air Jordan XXI brand of basketball shoes. [3] The ad depicts signature moves from Michael Jordan's NBA career, recreated in the present day by twelve young basketball players around the world.
Much has been made of Caitlin Clark's WNBA salary with the Indiana Fever. It appears that Nike has her covered. Per The Athletic's Shams Charania, Clark is finalizing an endorsement deal with Nike ...
Marbury is the designer of an initial shoe lineup entitled "Starbury" includes "The Starbury One," a basketball shoe which Stephon wore all season on the New York Knicks, "Starbury Crossovers," a classic "Air Force One"-style shoe which is listed at US$9.98, "Starbury Cyclones," shoes with similar styling to "New Balance" shoes, also retailed ...
Eventually Nike added a signature shoe as part of an updated proposal. Clark originally signed a name, image and likeness deal with Nike in 2022, but that deal expired following the 2023-24 season.