basketball shoe

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“Air,” a movie that follows the history of Air Jordans, Nike’s basketball shoe that became the model for sports star-endorsed franchises, premieres on April 5.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2023

“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

Coen Gilbert and Houlahan founded and led AND1, a basketball shoe and clothing company before turning to B Lab.

From Washington Times • Nov. 5, 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