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MEGA New Miami Adidas Ultraboost🔥 - The Shoe and Nike/Adidas Thread.

HurricaneOmeezy said:
2014 Nike Miami uni’s actually one of my all time faves. The players and coaches just chose horrible color combos that year. But they legit looked like NFL unis, the quality and tech were amazing. If we sign with Nike or JB, actually wouldn’t mind going back to that template at the outset.
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This was elite...

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Rellyrell said:
B/c most ppl don’t read the fine print, to be honest. This is y in my line of biz, I pride myself in simplifying, & defining all fine prints so my clients make educated decisions b4 signing or agreeing to work w me.

Imma give u another example in which I just shared in my PMs. This is y I don’t want us to get in bed w PEs.



Moral of the story; just b/c something looks good up front, u must be aware of the tricky language that’s buried.
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here's another angle to a situation with a lot of layers...

Jaylen Brown is in the middle of a five-year, $304 million supermax contract that runs through the 2028-29 season. He is owed $57,078,728 for the 2026-27 season, $61,015,192 for 2027-28, and $64,951,656 for 2028-29. Following his blockbuster trade to the Philadelphia 76ers, he is also eligible to sign an extension to keep him in Philly through 2030.

Future Extension Eligibility
  • Date: July 26, 2026
  • Projected Value: Up to a two-year, $142 million extension
  • Impact: If signed with Philadelphia, it would lock him down through the 2030-31 season.

Jaaylen Brown's contract simply out-grew his ability. He won them a championship, and now Boston is proactively re-building with their most valuable asset on a contract that would become less valuable and tradable over time. He's a good player, but not worth 35% of the salary cap; few guys in the history of the NBA are.
 
TboneJones said:
I don't think the financial aspect is as significant as many of you are making it out to be. Ultimately, Mario is going to have a major say in our direction regarding apparel. If he feels that the players prefer the products offered by a different outfitter, we will move on from Adidas.
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I have wondered this the whole time.

If Mario puts his foot down and says NIKE OR GTFO, does he win?

I would habe said yes if not fpr ahat I hear aboit fje Mas Neptjsrs role in all this. Withthsm involved and thwir connectipns to Adidas, I have a hard time seeing Mario beat thw billionaires.
 
Look this is all off-season fan discussion. Both are mega corporations who can essentially provide anything. If we asked Adidas to give us gear that weighs half an oz less than Nike’s with thin rib texture running horizontally (so it would feel slippery when tackled), they would ship it in two weeks. Nike could do the same. It comes down to taste in style. Our last Nike stuff looked like softball uniforms. Some of the adidas stuff looks bad too. I trust Mario to select which ever he thinks gives us an advantage with the kids. Now give me another 5 star for ‘27
 
KingCane20 said:
TruCane81 said:
I have wondered this the whole time.

If Mario puts his foot down and says NIKE OR GTFO, does he win?

I would habe said yes if not fpr ahat I hear aboit fje Mas Neptjsrs role in all this. Withthsm involved and thwir connectipns to Adidas, I have a hard time seeing Mario beat thw billionaires.
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If I didn’t know sht about athletic brands and came along this thread I would only come to one conclusion:

Adidas sucks nursing home caulk.

If you supply a school with gear for over a decade and you can’t convince fans, former/active players to love what you’re supplying; then you either suck or don’t care.
You get your best designers, engineers, sports scientists on the job and tell them to fix it.
It seems like adidas is just throwing money at the problem convincing people to pick them.

But damm adidas!! 10+ years and you can’t win over a fan base?
Using that soccer money to keep cfb on the payroll.
 
pacusmc said:
If I didn’t know sht about athletic brands and came along this thread I would only come to one conclusion:

Adidas sucks nursing home caulk.

If you supply a school with gear for over a decade and you can’t convince fans, former/active players to love what you’re supplying; then you either suck or don’t care.
You get your best designers, engineers, sports scientists on the job and tell them to fix it.
It seems like adidas is just throwing money at the problem convincing people to pick them.

But damm adidas!! 10+ years and you can’t win over a fan base?
Using that soccer money to keep cfb on the payroll.
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It seems more like to me that they're just not bringing the things they have fixed to the consumer level that they're giving the team and that's where they are missing out and ****ing people off outside of the people who are only team a or B no matter what
 
TheOriginalCane said:
ShadowSpring said:
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Keep posting one-off alternate jerseys.

Remember this, Mr. Traditionalist?

Ooooh, you didn't like the shoulders or the 2-color numbers.

Well, everything about this baby-vomit uniform is terrible.



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Those sucked. But again I'm not advocating for Adidas. I'm just keeping it real about how badly Nike performed as the apparel supplier when they had a chance. I don't understand why that brand needs to be given another chance. Especially given Nike is a declining company anyway.
 
ShadowSpring said:
Those sucked. But again I'm not advocating for Adidas. I'm just keeping it real about how badly Nike performed as the apparel supplier when they had a chance. I don't understand why that brand needs to be given another chance. Especially given Nike is a declining company anyway.
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Again, not sure how many times it needs to be repeated.

Nike did not, repeat not, "perform badly as the apparel supplier".

Miami chose to deviate from "traditional uniforms" IN THE 1990s. That's an undeniable fact.

All of our uniform designs were approved by Paul Dee or Kirby Hocutt or Shawn Eichorst or Beta Blake James. That's an undeniable fact.

On the other hand, "Nike is a declining company anyway" is not a fact. Most of their current situation is due to a decline in the Chinese market. And the rise of Chinese-based apparel companies.

Now, you can claim that you are "not advocating for adidas". But in a duopoly, your repeated nonsense about "not giving Nike another chance" is exactly that. Advocating for adidas. It can be nothing else. You won't even permit a fair and full competitive bidding process, you just say that Nike should be blackballed. Unless you are saying you want to go with Under Armour, which is just ridiculous.

Again, plucking out individual uniforms is a zero-sum game. First, because both companies have had hits and misses. Second, because some things are a matter of personal taste. But most importantly, because you fail to account for the issue that @Rellyrell has cited with regularity, which is the quality and cut and fit of the uniforms. Sure, @ShadowSpring didn't like certain stripes on the Nike uniforms. Got it. Point taken. But the reality is that the Nike uniforms were of a better quality, and I've seen both Nike and adidas game-worn jerseys up close. ****, I own a few of them.

So while I can agree with you that I didn't like all of the Nike designs that our Athletic Directors approved, that's still not a reason to "blackball" Nike. Nike makes better player gear, and they make better consumer gear.

We can debate "fashion" all day and all night. Improvements can always be made, by either company. But the Nike quality exceeds the adidas quality, regardless of how Nike is doing in the Chinese market.
 
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