The shoes you see here are what Nike made for Kevin Durant. Or Kevin Durant might have made for Nike.
It doesn't really matter. What matters is why someone would wear these to play basketball in.
Can you get Elephantitis on your big toe? Because if you can, these shoes would be perfect. What else would they work for? If you were a sneaky pool player that liked to store an extra eight ball in the front of your sneakers. Or if you had two left feet stacked on top of each other.
I have a 4-year-old nephew I've been hanging out with over the holidays. His name is Jack and he is pretty creative. He enjoys drawing pictures of random things, mostly clocks or spiders or his family. I think the other day he drew a more acceptable basketball shoe than this one.
Anyway, here are the new Durants. If you own a pair of these, I'd love to hear your story in the comments.
Update: It appears the shoes are a Photoshop job. Here is a picture of the real shoes, via FanIQ, after the jump.
h/t Bend It Like Bennett
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12-27-2008 @ 4:56PM
cozoman said...
I'm going to assume this (and Bend it like Bennett's) was posted tongue in cheek
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12-27-2008 @ 5:46PM
He's In Da House?!? said...
brother, brother. Back in the day, everyone was begging for a new pair of street sneakers (I would know I was a street baller, I had a good rep). So when K.D. came out with those bad boys (referring to sneakers), I was like "dang". Case in point, I bought me a pair of dem shoes. Word to the wise, K.D. is the man, so don't disrespect. I'm outta this joint, PCE...
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12-27-2008 @ 7:41PM
TheConqueror said...
This article and the comments thereto had me cracking up. I couldn't wear those with a straight face--Kevin Durant or not. If these blow up and start selling in record numbers I'm just going to have to assume that KD will be laughing all the way to the bank.
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12-27-2008 @ 9:38PM
Jon said...
"He's In Da House?!? said...
So when K.D. came out with those bad boys (referring to sneakers), I was like "dang". Case in point, I bought me a pair of dem shoes. Word to the wise, K.D. is the man, so don't disrespect. I'm outta this joint, PCE..."
I feel bad for you.
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12-27-2008 @ 6:36PM
Smeeble said...
you have been tricked by photoshop. Hang your head in shame Shane Bacon and AOL's NBA Fanhouse.
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12-28-2008 @ 4:16AM
Cal said...
Even I could tell the pic of the kicks were altered, but you couldn't? Sounded to me like you thought that you had a chance to rag on/diss KD...trying to crack on him way too hard. What's the real deal here?
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12-29-2008 @ 5:57PM
frankie new york said...
the real shoes are not much better. Hideous just hideous.
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12-30-2008 @ 2:35PM
dj kahn said...
It's honestly not the worst photoshop job ever, and considering 1) some of the freakishly hideous shoes out there, 2) the fact that any pub is good pub, and Durant could (maybe?) use some pub, and 3) journalists do not like getting scooped (even bloggers), maybe everyone should ease up on Shane. Had the shoes been real, they would never have made it to market and Shane would've been our only link to what could've been the funniest shoes ever made. Relax and let the man work.
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