{"id":286662,"date":"2013-04-06T19:21:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T00:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?p=286662"},"modified":"2022-09-16T14:11:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T19:11:38","slug":"its-not-the-shoes-a-look-at-the-correlation-between-brands-and-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/its-not-the-shoes-a-look-at-the-correlation-between-brands-and-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Not the Shoes: A Look At the Correlation Between Brands and Injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"

The gruesome injury to University of Louisville guard Kevin Ware<\/strong> has brought the discussion of specific shoe brands being linked to injuries back to the forefront. After season ending injuries to young NBA stars last season, adidas basketball shoes began to receive whispers of criticism. Those whispers became a little louder when the adidas outfitted Cardinals player suffered one of the worst injuries in recent sports memory. The compound fracture that Ware endured is rare in non-contact sports, such as basketball. Could your choice, or brand, of sneakers really be the root of a possible season ending knee injury?
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