I’ve been in the sneaker business since 2007... from Eastbay’s first blog to Complex to StockX to Stadium Goods. I’ve watched brands rise and fall, seen billion-dollar deals get made, and collected shoes nobody else cared about. We’ve seen plenty of failures. Bad designs, worse marketing, athletes who couldn’t move product. But we’ve never seen anything…
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