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3M-like material on the prototype was removed.
Fila, getting strong Street vibes to the return of
its Disruptor 2, has inked Grant Hill to a lifetime
contract. (Hill initially signed a seven-year, $80
million contract with the Italian brand in 1997.)
And Reebok has brought back Allen Iverson after
four years with the $160 Iverson Legacy model.
AND1, the original streetball label now owned by
Sequential Brands, tapped former NBA great Kevin
Garnett as creative director and global ambassador
in June. AND1 used the recent ComplexCon to roll
out a 25th anniversary edition of the original Tai Chi
shoe to the convention's basketball-crazy crowd.
(Interestingly, the player who wore the Tai Chi to
win the 2000 NBA Slam Dunk Contest, Vince Carter,
is also coming back to the scene. The former Puma
endorser, who joined Nike in 2000, is wearing and
endorsing the Swoosh's Shox BB4, a shoe that he
says helped him to become a star player.)
"The '90s may be the jumping off point for the cat-
egory's resurgence," proclaims John Scipio, general
manager of the AND1 brand. "We love and celebrate
the '90s, but we're not going to live there." l
Puma's Clyde Court Disrupt has an engineered knit upper and
collar. The style was also recently joined by the third iteration
of the Clyde Court, the Purple Glow, which has a translucent
sole with a hint of purple and a knit upper. MSRP $120.
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