Clown if you want but, if I can find them in my size, I’ll buy myself a pair of $15 basketball shoes.
That’s right, $15 basketball shoes.
That’s the price for a pair of Starburys, the shoe line created and endorsed by New York Knicks guard, Stephon Marbury. The shoe is available at the discount-price sports apparel store, Steve and Barry’s.
Not only in Marbury endorsing them, he has been playing in these shoes all season.
Now, for those that mock a $15 shoe, look at what a San Diego store manager of Steve and Barry’s, Evan Montes, says about it:
“When the shoe first came out, we couldn’t hold it in stock,” Montes said. “(Demand) has slowed, but it still makes up about 80% of our sales, and it is only 10% of our merchandise.”
It does my heart good to see this. To me, this is kind of like the “white tee” thing a couple of years back. People are realizing that you don’t have to go broke to be part of a trend. In a time where it is not unusual to see a kid with no job wearing a $100-200 pair of sneakers, it’s nice to see an alternative that is more in line with the real manufacturing cost of a sneaker.
Now, if they have them in a size 13, I’m there.
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