fwiw i'm way more offended by your misunderstanding of sports fandom and sneakers and shaq than anything else.
Yeah, Irving only expressed his Flat Earth opinion 40 seconds ago and you are showing me a link for sales starting from last year. Totally irrelevant. The link even provides a disclaimer that his shoes are only leading in the "performance" basketball shoe market, whatever that is, and that Nike is underpricing the shoes compared to other signature brands.
fair enough, maybe the market hasn't had time to react the career-ending news that kyrie irving believes something weird.
http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/03/sales_of_kyrie_irvings_nike_sh.html"Kyrie Irving has another reason to celebrate on this, his 25th birthday. The latest iteration of his signature basketball shoe by Nike is currently the best-selling pair of basketball kicks out there.
"The Kyrie 3 launched in December and now is the top-selling performance basketball shoe in the marketplace," Nike Brand President Trevor Edwards said in an earnings call."
nike's brand president seems to think that kryie irving's band is just fine. probably why they
keep releasing models.
Are you seriously trying to tell us that Shaq's managers and partners would have thought that world-wide ridicule was a good thing? People would have been screaming at him to retract his statement or his career was over. Do you really think that seeing that irrelevant link would change their minds?
lol "or his career was over." what are you talking about? do you think he's gonna get fired from tnt or something? lose an endorsement? the folks at icy-hot probably didn't hire shaq because of his intellect. what's the specific thing that happens when people find out what shaq believes something weird?
That's not really the same type of humor at all here, and Shaq revealed himself at the end. Its not even his own idea, he's an actor in a commercial for Lyft.
you've missed the point entirely.
i just sorta get the feeling that shaq's 'brand' can withstand people laughing at him.
i mean he got a degree in humor ffs.