Sneaker Expert Breaks Down the NBA's 9 Greatest Sneakers Ever | Game Points | GQ Sports

SLAM Magazine's Max Resetar is an NBA sneaker connoisseur. Join him as he breaks down the NBA's greatest all-time sneakers, including Michael Jordan's Air Jordan XI "Concord," LeBron James' Nike LeBron 15 "Equality," Kobe Bryant's Nike Kobe 6 "Grinch" and Adidas Kobe 2, Allen Iverson's Reebock Question Mid "Red Toe," P.J. Tucker's Nike Hyperdunk "Marty McFly," Nate Robinson's Nike Air Foamposite Lite "Kryptonate," Dee Brown's Reebock Pump Omni Lite "Dee Brown" and Kevin Garnett's Nike Garnett 3' sneakers.
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[@thespeedster7700]

Ever since I was a kid I wanted Kobe Grinch 6 🤧

[@user-sf6dg6hq1k]

They’re retroing next year bro 💪

[@Invictus-Solaris]

How come you haven’t bought them yet? I could understand them being expensive now, but they weren’t always *that* expensive. If you really wanted them, you’d have them.

[@tatumshooter-1406]

SoLiX budget?

[@mixedpleasure4324]

@@tatumshooter-1406 Even though you have a budget you should be able to buy them if you have wanted them ever since you was a kid because because back in the days you could get them for 500-700$ so if you just put 50$ in to you savings you could buy them within a year

[@tatumshooter-1406]

Moe I jus feel like 50 is to much I just keep one pair of shoes really tbh.

[@brob2234]

He killed this interview, I am a basketball fan and I learned a lot

[@Doordashjonathon]

Dude smell

[@WyWid]

He’s literally talking about sneakers it’s not that big of a deal lol

[@jaseallenson316]

Except there is zero basis, and its all opinion.

[@BallIsLife353332]

@@jaseallenson316 kept jumping between iconic color ways/models and iconic moments that just so happened to be in a shoe. Like you said no basis whatsoever

[@barackobama9958]

Is there a reason why he recorded himself with a $10 Logitech camera?

[@kotukumacky3299]

Barack Obama sneaker priorities

[@seize3]

For real. GQ couldn't have hooked him up with a camera? Smh

[@CuddyTG]

Don't disrespect... it was 12.54 after tax

[@salzavala6501]

@@CuddyTG 😂🤣

[@corbineotw]

Bruh fricking roasted

[@shanghaistudentvoices1322]

being a Chinese, I was STUNNED when I saw "生来平等" on Lebron 15 Equality. The phrase in Chinese means "born as equal people". And that's why I love the details of this sneaker!

[@reign8191]

When you realize it’s only black and white no Asian

[@shanghaistudentvoices1322]

@@reign8191 true, but we asians should unite together to combat racial injustice

[@theinnocentturtle1236]

@@shanghaistudentvoices1322 Ironic. Lebron is mute when it comes to racial injustice in Asia particularly in HongKong and he put’s chinese calligraphy of EQUALITY. Maybe HYPOCRISY

[@jeffforty5663]

Unless you’re and uiger in China then it doesn’t apply

[@lancernightful]

Kobe has the best looking and performance basketball shoes ever. Still remember how many people were wearing kobe 4s at the gym when they first came out . Still trying to get Kobe bruce lee version / Kyrie. Gorgeous shoes.

[@BallIsLife353332]

Kobe 6/7 and kd4 neck and neck for me along with early UA’s like the curry anatomix

[@PatGetsBucks]

Rip Kobe 🙏🏽❤️

[@ziadeissa3_]

The Kobe 8’s, Kobe 9’s, Jordan 29’s and KD7’s are the best performance shoes ever

[@CDankies]

Big facts.

[@tdv10]

love kobe but performance wise? i gotta give it to them KDs

[@davidappiah3857]

Frrrr then Kobe 8s are comfy affff

[@junzzzzzz4996]

AJ29

[@ziadeissa3_]

JunZZZ Z - i completely forgot about those!

[@clutchoutnba8565]

Kobe 6s gotta be on here they are elite 🔥

[@camerondallas7604]

i mean they are on the thumbnail so

[@xmancool23]

OMG I wanted the Grinches so bad. Could never get my hands on them though 🥺

[@viiggooooooo]

*This is for my ballers out there, these are not the greatest basketball shoes in terms of performance.* 🏀

[@WyWid]

What do you wear them. I’ve personally worn the harden 1 ls, and the traction, and comfort were incredible. Ive also worn the Kobe 8s and 11s, the traction was also very good

[@Ryan-gc3sd]

Kobe 6 are the greatest in terms of performance

[@I_like_turtles_67]

11s & 13s are probably my favorite Jordan ( basketball performace ) shoe. Just my .02

[@sturrrdy]

Jordan xx8’s are #1 Lebron 10’s are a close #1

[@JTC161]

Great videos, it was very educational, thanks Max. Hope this video hit 1 mil one day cause this is way better then the hype sneaker content we been seeing all over youtube for the last few years

[@khonable]

No disrespect to the mamba....but the Kobe 2 look like clown shoes 😂

[@GTfromAG]

Love Kobe but that shoes is historic trash🤣🤣

[@jorgeberruete4537]

I bet he thought the same thing but at least you getting paid to wear them

[@chrisisslick]

Space boots smh

[@LeBeautiful]

definitely all in this together, especially for the current state of the world today on the matter.

[@Henry-ul7uh]

You are on every basketball video

[@zacpetersen23]

I love you lebeautiful

[@rockstar-kp2jy]

I really don't get why people keep saying this It's not true

[@mannyatyourcorner4043]

Lebeauty well said

[@XxRemotexX]

In my eyes, it was Kobe putting on the Grinches and ruining Christmas for The Heat in true Kobe fashion. 🙏

[@Thisthat1234]

It’s sad basketball doesn’t look at soccer boots for more ideas. Wild that the Kobe’s were the first low top shoes. Soccer cleats have been low top since it’s inception.

[@Thisthat1234]

Slatternly Skaghalter fútbol is played with the feet, on grass in wet conditions and arguably more change of direction and they use low top. They must have something figured out .

[@haonanzhang6759]

Thats the reason for kobe to ask for a low top shoe in the first place. KOBE 8/9 definitely look like soccer cleats.

[@haonanzhang6759]

@Slatternly Skaghalter Yeah right, how about all thoes players who got injured wearing high-tops? How about all the football players?

[@raedan3722]

Also, i remember he said that boxing was the influence behind his Kobe 9 Elite after observing Manny Pacquiao in a boxing training session. Kobe was really thinking outside the box for his shoe designs.

[@zhangyulun2683]

15:17 YOOOO Dee Brown wayyy ahead of his time with the Dabbing

[@legitwords5788]

Kobe 🤧❤️

[@marlonm5959]

Kobe 6s were the best basketball shoe when I use to play. Bought like 3 pairs loved playing in them so comfy . Also lebron 10s

[@biglordebunnyrabbit627]

I have never got to the point where I can hoop in my foamposites, and KG had some fire And 1’s that looked like 11’s with a zipper

[@mikehoang]

What a great video, a lot of info and great stories.

[@parker8926]

My man knows a lot but everything he says about each person boils down to “So Influential” and “Best of all time”

[@yogeshpatel5162]

Yeah what else would you say when discussing the best NBA shoes of all time?

[@yandorsochi2]

@@yogeshpatel5162 lmaoo

[@moriellymoproblems7842]

Love my Black Concord/Space Jam 11s. Shout out to the Question Mids.

[@bradfellers6357]

Nike air zoom 1995. Jason Kidd. Loved those back in the day.

[@blankmandastankman]

That Kobe II look like when u broke ur foot, but it’s game 7 of the finals & without u ur team doesn’t stand a chance

[@tariquejeremiah6839]

This was a great video I learned a lot.

[@BL-93]

Great video. But I sprained my ankle 3 times in those kobe 6s 😂

[@benmartinez8248]

17:01 Big Dog bout to rip out of those beautiful PÉ Jordan 6’s like Zion! 😂

[@man-of-SteelRB24]

Please do another video like this but with Vince Carters shox, and the T-Mac 4's

[@Noctis198]

Love this video and aint even done watching it, but just a little correction. The shoe at 4:47 are the Hyperdunks not the 4s.

[@TheRetroManRandySavage]

The j11 wasn't the first time carbon fiber had been used. That was the shaq attack in 1992.

[@DevonMessinger]

Rip Kobe 🐍

[@mookeychase0907]

Nice vid my dude but as an old head that remembers Nike coming in the league around 78 with the Blazer while the shell toe/Super star /Pro model waa the best shoe . The Nike AF1 created by Bruce Kilgore had all the top guys, all stars, hall of famers wearing them in 1982, along with many college and pro teams in different flavors. The Air Tech was a first thick sole first mid sole sneaker with a strap to match the swoosh. The Adidas Forum worn by Michael Jordan in the 1984 Olympics waa a shoe 👟 like we never saw thick sole with a meah weave a midsole with a wrap around strap that havw ankle support like nothing else. Patrick Ewing wore white royal and orange Forums iii n his rookie year prior to his own Adidas Ewing Conductor ans the Rivalry… I think those two shoes were very influential and very well made…

[@jordachejordan90]

He encapsulates history very well.

[@LeBronJames-StatPadderMan]

Kobe had some of the best performance shoes.

[@mistersir4180]

Kobe 2 = 2k default sneaker

[@vedb9758]

Max is a legend, at the top of his craft, great info

[@youngsheen1493]

fr man he killed this

[@edfp7309]

Looking forward to the grinch drop next year

[@marcelohendrix6139]

kobe 5 is the best basketball shoe of all time imo

[@arvyj23]

Knowledge of tech and culture. Impressive

[@hoodrichhaul7545]

Agree with you iverson questions 1 of the greatest shoes and they are tanks take a beating and high quality materials. I want that A.I. poster behind you!

[@ziadeissa3_]

KOBE SHOES RANKING: 1. Kobe 8 2. Kobe 9 3. Kobe 6 4. Kobe 11 5. Kobe 5 6. Kobe 10 7. Kobe 4 8. Kobe 7 9. Kobe 1 10. Kobe 3 11. Kobe 2

[@pjnice]

I didn’t know KG 3 was that important. I used it during my junior year and basically ran it through the ground.

[@andrewbean24.2]

Yeah, it was in the series with Portland that he returned to ones. For my 11th birthday i was gifted the ones. Halfway through 01-02 school year, less than halfway actually, the 2s were released. Man these shoes taught me not to fall in to the whole upgrade as yes, I started school cool, but then for 4 months until the post season my shoes "sucked" according to kids on the playground. Basically in the end it was an"amnesty that" moment.

[@jaydensnow2539]

My bank account crying looking at these shoes

[@netcanyon8339]

Great list but you're forgetting the DADA Sprewell Spinners baby

[@big_lolo_01]

I prefer the South Beach Bron 8s. The colorway and shoe was fire.

[@aaaqhaaa]

T-mac 1 and 2 are ones of the influential shoes as well

[@Califresh21]

Kobe 8 my fav signature Kobe

[@rustino660]

Favorite Jordan XI (11 lol) color way? I always go back & forth between Cool Grey 11s or Concords

[@extreame7304]

Guys, if you looking for any shoes to buy, get kobe's 11. Shoe is amazing, it's light, comfartable, flexible, literally, this shoe is the best i had ever worn

[@keach1983]

Ive always loved the kobe bullet ive owned every adidas kobe

[@srt.b00g74]

So we just gonna forget that everybody and they moms was kickin some KD 6s?

[@allensmith9879]

Those Garnett finals shoes are nutty, with game 1-7.

[@pedrorivera9779]

Outstanding Video.

[@mookeychase0907]

Youngblood you are wrong about the Concord being the first time we saw patent leather on a basketball sneaker . Do the knowledge ask your man Scoop he is an old head like me, he knows the first patent leather basketball sneaker we saw was the Converse Dr J.1983 it came in red with white star and arrow and black with white star and arrow. I never saw Doc or any of the Sixers wear them, therefore the first true patent leather basket shoe was 1984.The Adidas Top Ten royal with white tongue and white stripes also came in black qith white tongue and stripes. DePaul Blue Demons wore the royal hi tops joints Sxoop definitely should remember that being a Chi town kid. Depaul vs Georgetown 1984 game was on youtube where Kenny Patterson and the Blue Demons wore them. Check around I wouldn't steer you wrong young homey…

[@raghuhariharan]

Shocked not to see the TMacs or VC Shox here

[@chm1701]

As someone who knows nothing about sneakers (trainers over here in the UK), this was a really interesting video.

[@eliasmarius]

Which pairs do you like the best?

[@Me-cs3bj]

Even if you know a lot you learned something🙌🏽😂

[@chm1701]

Elia Smarius. I have no idea as there were so many.

[@charlieparker6004]

Surely gq sports coulda got this guy a camera and a mic we in quarantine not prison

[@connoryu5906]

RIP Kobe and Gigi and everyone else.

[@leochanman]

Gary Payton's the Glove was taaaight

[@ncm2738]

I'd take the J13 and J14 over the J11 in terms of performance and the fact that the 14's were the last shoe to be worn by Jordan on the court.

[@Noushauga]

So there was a Brown in Celtics who also wore #7 before Jaylen Brown lmao

[@engelmann82]

Carbonfibre actually was first used in the Reebok Shaq Attaq, years before the XIs…😉

[@NShomebase]

The Jordan 11 wasn't the first basketball shoe to feature carbon fiber, the Shaq Attaq 1 in 1992 was.

[@QthAgR8]

Where’s the Reebok kamakazi 2s? Or shaq attack 1s?

[@richmanamadikwu7043]

Feels different now that his contract with Nike is up 😔

[@riccruz7299]

Where is jordan 1? The shoe that started it all

[@mookeychase0907]

The Jordan 1 copied heavily off the Air Force 1…

[@noagre9777]

Jordans didn't really get the identity they have now until the three

[@BallIsLife353332]

Some of the most horrible shoes comfort wise on the court

[@007lucius]

I believe that Shaq's Reebok's are the first with carbon fibre shank tech. Not sure which model exactly...

[@juvenilebean559]

Kobe’s Venice beach is the best shoe ever!

[@DR.DisInfect]

I was at the game vs Orlando

[@ServantOfTMHGodOfAbraham]

We don’t wear foams in the DMV no more 😂

[@nickdeavers5816]

When I was a kid we didn’t have a lot of money especially for shoes. I got to get like one pair at the beginning of the school year and that was it. Nike shoes were never comfortable to me and out of our price range. I remember one year I think 93-94 school year I got to get a pair of converse they were Larry Johnson’s they were black and white with a cover over the laces and I wore those things until they literally fell apart they were the best pair of shoes I ever wore. I just googled them after typing that I believe they were called converse react

[@davidbarraza1294]

WE MISS YOU KOBE

[@dillonclaussen3950]

Would’ve been fire if Lebron switched up the laces

[@DVRMNaitor]

EVER = 1990s, 2000’s & 2010’s ...

[@mikatteba225]

No love for the Chuck Taylor

[@DVRMNaitor]

mikatteba225 or Superstars, it’s a joke.

[@moriellymoproblems7842]

@@DVRMNaitor You really think Superstars belong on a best of all time basketball shoes list? Lmao.

[@DVRMNaitor]

MoRiellyMoProblems I do. 😒

[@RetroKid]

You're missing the Pippen 2's. Straight up.

[@futurecitieschannel]

that list gotta be better, like those reebock pump omni lite shoes are not it

[@seize3]

I agree, maybe an honorable mention but not one of the greatest NBA sneakers of all time

[@JayZMarrero]

In my opinion Kobe V are the best. And totally gamechanging. Kobe V right now are totally in y everyway.

[@lemini4k]

The T-Mac 2 was the first shoe LeBron rocked in H.S. on national television so much Adidas thought they had him in the bag. Until that interview about him being a Nike guy. 🤣

[@randyzoo8944]

Wait, no T-mac shoes? The iconic moment when he wore one bleu and one red in the all star game? And you're telling me this list is about NBA's greatest shoes? What about D-rose? Come on man.

[@gezza7718]

Black Air Force Max worn by the Fab-5

[@fobbyP]

With all these foam runners out im surprised the Adida Kobe’s haven’t made a comeback

[@cedricwade926]

1. Bred 11 2. Concord 11 3 infrared 6 4 Bordeaux 7 5 pure white 4 6 playoffs 8 7 platinum tint 11 8 sc trainer - bo Jackson’s 9 air max trainer 91 - bo Jackson’s

[@DjWarp79]

My favorite Air Jordan 11.

[@romesl.2246]

Official sneakers of the dmv lmaoo

[@krabo83]

let's be honest, flywire 1.0 was just plastic with lines painted on it :D

[@ras.4913]

Who remembers Kobe Adidas "Foot you wear."?

[@jonluzzi3015]

The Grinches and Bruce Lees are the best sneakers EVER

[@blankmandastankman]

How’s pippen & the uptempo not make the list

[@haydenmorse31]

GQ Sports taking over sheeeesh

[@Pdot608]

You did insane disrespect by picking those lebrons did you forget about the south beach lebron 9

[@daejuanlankster7444]

I think KD has the best shoe performance wise

[@cato8767]

Gotta have a Penny in there bro.

[@walidstowel2200]

4:58 yo look at kobe leg

[@marcusdavidson5048]

If you had a survey of the best basketball shoes ever, half of these wouldn’t even be brought up.

[@g.berwald5312]

True. At least performance wise. Only the Kobes

[@duanemoody257]

How you put the Kyrtonates over the penny foam smh

[@bryancastillo8117]

KB8s best Kobe shoe of all time

[@claysoggyfries]

Lebrons shoes are not competing with Michaels or even KDs Kobe’s

[@CheckMyReviews]

Crazy that in the Kobe 6, Kobe sprained his ankles a lot in that model. If you know you know Don’t pretend to know if you don’t . #NoFakeFans #RealFactsOnly RIP Mamba.

[@heatsneaker6flymin345]

pumps released 1989 not 1991

[@critdaddysama4656]

No TMac’s?