basketball shoe

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“I was designing the shoe with the idea that I needed a real basketball shoe that the best basketball player in the world could play in,” Mr. Moore told slamonline.com in 2018.

From Washington Post • May 7, 2022

A key shoe style was a $1,000 logo-printed, high-top, lace-up shoe reminiscent of the Converse Chuck Taylor All Star, the iconic sneaker first introduced as a basketball shoe in 1917.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2019

Bazley, who decided not play in the development league, is the first athlete signed to promote the company’s re-entry into the basketball shoe market.

From Washington Times • Oct. 22, 2018

Back then, Nike beat back Adidas; indeed, it now has over 90 percent of the basketball shoe market — a number that compares to Microsoft’s monopoly over operating systems in its heyday.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2016

A March Morgan Stanley note, first described by Business Insider, reported that Under Armour’s basketball shoe sales were up a massive 350 percent year to date.

From Slate • May 16, 2016