The Twitter taunts are dropping like three pointers for Houston Rocket James Harden, who’s first signature shoe from Adidas, the “Triple Black” is being mostly panned by the public.
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One user calls them “The Adidas Cable Repairman 1s”, while another says, “James harden really made sneakers for grandpa Joe from Charlie and the Chocolate factory”.
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Nevertheless, sneakerheads, basketball fans and just about everyone else would expect more from the Harden-Adidas partnership, which reportedly will run for 13 years at a cost of $200 million. But I don’t know whose is worse, Harden’s or Curry’s. The shoe has a leather toe cap that combines with what appears to be a one-piece fabric upper with tube laces going through double eyelets and a padded collar. Curry was also destroyed by Twitter, saying that the only group to wear his shoes would be senior citizens on Life Alert. The outsole has two ripple-effect patterns for traction. We all felt reverberations stemming from the avalanche of snark that accompanied the release of Steph Curry’s Under Armour Curry 2 Lows back in June.
