If Nike made Air Lin, would you cop?

alrite it's because rondo and westbrook aren't good looking like kobe and at the top of their position that's why they don't have signature shoes.

I would 100% cop a pair if somehow Lin and the Nike team create a decent looking shoe.

Lmfao you're a newer member than him...

Nike should do some sick NYK PE's, they have an ill color scheme.

^what apossiblehybrid said.

And you think Jeremy Lin is better looking? LMAO
Forget the Air Lin, you need an Air Lift to an optometrist.

Westbrook and Rondo have much better marketing potential than Lin does....
They have consistently bettered themselves over the course of their careers. Rondo is known as the future of the celtics, while Westbrook has a reputation for being one of the most explosive and fastest guards in the game. Those reputations combined with their individual skills give these 2 a much better shot at having a sig shoe at some point.

Lin is an average player on a bad team, and so far, he's the best option for a PG at this time, cause he's the Only pg on the team haha.

Lin may have a Nike deal, but we would see the Air Curry before the Air Lin....
He won't sell in the US really, maybe in China, but if he wants pure Chinese marketability he should go to Li Ning, they would use him better in the overseas market. Nike doesn't want someone who is specific to just one market segment, they want someone who can cross over and make sales on every side of the market. A PE is likely, but with Nike, lin is destined to be purely a Team Nike guy.

I agree, if anything Nike is going to use him to help push a hyperdunk or fuse or what ever shoe he currently has, samething they do with Rondo. He plays in a big market, and he's Asian, so thats all they have to push on. Yeah he's putting up sick numbers, but he's still Raw and have a lot to prove, hell Darren Collison did this last year, jus not a on a big stage.

And this is coming from a Lin fan, I was big on him in the Summer League.

i was told not to say that reason is cause he was asian so i decided i would give another reason. i personally don't, but he has so many more things over powering his looks that's going for him.

yea if he was an average player, i doubt we would have this thread right now.

good reasoning on the qualities about bettering themselves, most explosiveness and fastest guard in the league except most people don't care about that stuff. but the people that are going to buy air lin is because hes asian. after those people those buyers will be knicks fans or underdog story lovers. those things are more powerful then nba stats and athleticism.

why wouldn't he sell in the US, he's american born. he's living the american dream.

"Nike doesn't want someone who is specific to just one market segment, they want someone who can cross over and make sales on every side of the market"

Let's see he'll have the asian american market, bay area market, new york market, and china. That might not touch every side of the market, but it's worth trying.

curry will always be a pe guy, his market is too small

Haha that comment about Lin being Asian equating to shoe sales is major doo-doo butter. That's like saying Kobe and Lebron sell cause they're black.... They sell cause they're the most amazing players Nike has, same reason Dwight and Rose sell for Adidas. I guarantee you that Leandro Barbosa and sonny weems havent sold anything for adidas, and they had a good scoring nights and starting spots...... Same reason Lin couldnt move units. If anything, his shoe would be a much shorter fad than Beanie Babies, by shorter i mean, a month or 2 at most.

Race is factoring into this way too much. People care about looking and playing in the same gear as the BEST players. People see rondo and say " man I want to pass and move like him, maybe these shoes Will help" Nike makes people think like that, so does any good advertiser. They make their product appealing based on what a certain athlete does in them, not what color their skin is. Now Lin has been playing well, but it is unlikely he will sustain it long enough to get a sig.

Your assuming everyone will like Lin in those markets.... Which would not be the case, unless they all think with one mind

Also, why do players like Blake, Paul Pierce, Rudy Gay, Oj mayo, Iguodala, JR smith, Dirk Nowitzki, Kevin Love, Rubio, Eric Gordon, Kyrie Irving, Pau Gasol, Tyreke Evans not have their own shoes?? These guys would all sell in America(lots of people like their PE shoes that are released) and some would translate to overseas success once their careers get going, and they ESTABLISH themselves ( something that takes more than just a few games) based on Nikes marketing and their Skill levels, not their skin color. But again, all these players are better players than Lin, yet are Team Nike guys. Most of them will stay that way probably. Lin is nothing special, and if race makes you special enough to move units(which it doesn't), Yao would have moved units like crazy(which he didn't), and he represented the Chinese culture better than Lin. But you will say Lin is Chinese American, and my response is, Chinese, Chinese American.... No one really cares. It's ignorant, but it's the truth. We will focus on the Chinese part more.


PS- if Nike gave Lin a deal for a signature shoe, all the guys listed above would either shoot Lin in the face or leave Nike.

I'd get them if they look good, but I highly doubt Nike would give him a sig shoe.