HereWeGoAgain
Diamond Member
In all my years involved with the NBA I've never seen this happen.
Nike may be looking at a lawsuit if he doesnt recover fully.
On Inside Edition this afternoon, they showed this clip and his shoe blowing out. They also said that he suffered a slight knee strain, and while it took him out of the game, he's expected to make a full recovery.
They also showed WHY the shoe blew out. Seems that the uppers are simply glued to the soles, and they don't overlap, they just glue it at the seam where the upper joins the sole. And, there are many reasons glue can fail. Maybe the machine that glued the shoe didn't put enough adhesive on that pair, and it was just plain bad luck.
I remember seeing a glue failure once while racing bicycles. There was an amateur race that was a 10 mile time trial. Well, it was pretty hot that day in Memphis, and one of the guys that was ahead of me came around the turn around point. Well, he had sew up tires (tubular bike tires that are glued on), and apparently it had been hot enough to heat up the glue on his tires, and when he came around the U turn, his tires simply rolled off his rims when he leaned into the turn. Funniest damn thing I ever saw, he leaned into the turn, his tires rolled 90 degrees to the rim, and he went down, because aluminum rims without tires have no grip.
This glue failure is a close second.
I've seen plenty of sew ups fail through corners.
It's usually caused by an amateur fitting the tire rather than glue failure.