<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> Just hold it. Nike officials contend that their relationship with Kobe Bryant remains status quo, but several shoe retailers say they have been unable to place orders for Nike's new line of Bryant shoes. The Los Angeles Lakers guard's signature sneaker is scheduled to be launched Feb. 7, a week before the NBA All-Star Game is to be played in Los Angeles, but retailers typically must place their orders at least six months in advance. Bryant signed a five-year deal worth at least $40 million with Nike, the world's largest grossing athletic shoe maker, in late June, just days before Bryant was arrested and charged with allegedly sexually assaulting a 19-year-old hotel employee in Eagle, Colo. In recent weeks, companies that have signed Bryant to endorsement contracts have, for the most part, stuck by their pitchman. Officials with Nike, McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Upper Deck and Spalding all have said that Bryant remains under contract with their company. "Companies have pulled back already," said Steve Rosner, partner of 16W Marketing, a sports marketing firm. "The longer this goes on, the more it is in the paper and the more graphic it is the more closely companies will be looking at their morals clauses in the contract to make their final decision on his status with them as an endorser." </div>Full Article: http://espn.go.com/sportsbusiness/news/200...09/1634285.html
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting T_WOLF_DAWG:</div><div class="quote_post">They better lokk beter then them Kobe2's. those things were fugly</div> all basketball shoes with a name attached to them are pretty fugly nowadays anyway.
