{"id":426587,"date":"2015-01-13T13:07:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T18:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?p=426587"},"modified":"2020-03-02T16:30:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T21:30:54","slug":"adidas-association-starting-point-guards-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/adidas-association-starting-point-guards-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"adidas&#8217; Association of Starting Point Guards in the NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Derrick Rose and Damian Lillard are the first point guards that come to mind when thinking of adidas brand members in the NBA. Yet, the Three Stripes brand is accountable for many more PGs in the league, and the stable seems to exponentially grow each season.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, 46% of starting point guards in the NBA &#8211; which equals out to 14 point guards &#8211; are signed to adidas. Check out all 14, the year in which they signed, and a random adidas fact about each below.<\/p>\n<h1>Derrick Rose<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Team<\/strong>: Chicago Bulls<br \/>\n<strong>Joined adidas<\/strong>: 2008<br \/>\n<strong>Go-To Shoe This Season<\/strong>: adidas D Rose 5 Boost<br \/>\n<strong>Random Fact<\/strong>: Derrick Rose reportedly signed a 13-year, $185 million contract extension with adidas in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h1>Kyle Lowry<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Team<\/strong>: Toronto Raptors<br \/>\n<strong>Joined adidas<\/strong>: 2006 (initially), 2014 (resigned)<br \/>\n<strong>Go-To Shoe This Season<\/strong>: adidas Crazy Light Boost<br \/>\n<strong>Random Fact<\/strong>: Kyle Lowry began his NBA career with adidas in 2006 before switching to PEAK after his first four years. He split time between NIKE and PEAK before returning to adidas this past summer.<br \/>\n<!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h1>Avery Bradley<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Team<\/strong>: Boston Celtics<br \/>\n<strong>Joined adidas<\/strong>: 2010<br \/>\n<strong>Go-To Shoe This Season<\/strong>: adidas J Wall 1<br \/>\n<strong>Random Fact<\/strong>:\u00a0Avery Bradley was one of the first players to wear the adidas &#8220;Awards Season&#8221; PEs on court during the first half of the 2013-2014 NBA season.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h1>Jrue Holiday<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Team<\/strong>: New Orleans Pelicans<br \/>\n<strong>Joined adidas<\/strong>: 2009<br \/>\n<strong>Go-To Shoe This Season<\/strong>: adidas D Rose Englewood 3<br \/>\n<strong>Random Fact<\/strong>:\u00a0Jrue Holiday\u00a0has been wearing adidas since his high school days. Ever since his freshman year, his favorite shoe has, and always will be, the adidas Pro Model.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h1>Patrick Beverley<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Team<\/strong>: Houston Rockets<br \/>\n<strong>Joined adidas<\/strong>: 2013<br \/>\n<strong>Go-To Shoe This Season<\/strong>: adidas D Rose 5 Boost<br \/>\n<strong>Random Fact<\/strong>:\u00a0Patrick Beverley has played every game this season and the majority of last season in an adidas D Rose signature shoe.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h1>Darren Collison<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Team<\/strong>: Sacramento Kings<br \/>\n<strong>Joined adidas<\/strong>: 2009<br \/>\n<strong>Go-To Shoe This Season<\/strong>:\u00a0adidas Crazy Light Boost<br \/>\n<strong>Random Fact<\/strong>: Darren Collison is\u00a0actually one of the longest-tenured adidas athletes in the NBA, as he has been on the adidas roster since his\u00a0UCLA days, which began in 2005.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h1>Damian Lillard<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Team<\/strong>: Portland Trail Blazers<br \/>\n<strong>Joined adidas<\/strong>: 2012<br \/>\n<strong>Go-To Shoe This Season<\/strong>:\u00a0adidas Crazy Light Boost<br \/>\n<strong>Random Fact<\/strong>: Damian Lillard wore over 10 different pairs of adidas shoes from Derrick Rose&#8217;s signature line during Rose&#8217;s injury-riddled seasons.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h1>Ricky Rubio<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Team<\/strong>: Minnesota Timberwolves<br \/>\n<strong>Joined adidas<\/strong>: 2012<br \/>\n<strong>Go-To Shoe This Season<\/strong>:\u00a0adidas Crazy Light Boost<br \/>\n<strong>Random Fact<\/strong>: Ricky Rubio was one of the very few adidas brand members to receive his own, personal player exclusive version of the adidas Crazy Light Boost at the start of the 2014-2015 NBA season.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h1>John Wall<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Team<\/strong>: Washington Wizards<br \/>\n<strong>Joined adidas<\/strong>: 2013<br \/>\n<strong>Go-To Shoe This Season<\/strong>: adidas J Wall 1<br \/>\n<strong>Random Fact<\/strong>: John Wall signed with adidas just months after Reebok, the brand he originally signed with out of college in 2010, released his signature Zig Slash shoe.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h1>Jeff Teague<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Team<\/strong>: Atlanta Hawks<br \/>\n<strong>Joined adidas<\/strong>: 2012<br \/>\n<strong>Go-To Shoe This Season<\/strong>:\u00a0adidas Crazy Light Boost<br \/>\n<strong>Random Fact<\/strong>:\u00a0Jeff Teague became the first player to wear the &#8220;Brenda&#8221; adidas D Rose 3, a shoe that paid tribute to Derrick Rose&#8217;s mom, even before Derrick Rose himself wore it on court.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h1>Brandon Knight<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Team<\/strong>: Milwaukee Bucks<br \/>\n<strong>Joined adidas<\/strong>: 2011<br \/>\n<strong>Go-To Shoe This Season<\/strong>: adidas CrazyQuick<br \/>\n<strong>Random Fact<\/strong>:\u00a0Brandon Knight visited the adidas USA campus for the first time with Denver Nuggets power forward Kenneth Faried in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h1>Mike Conley, Jr.<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Team<\/strong>: Memphis Grizzlies<br \/>\n<strong>Joined adidas<\/strong>: 2007<br \/>\n<strong>Go-To Shoe This Season<\/strong>:\u00a0adidas Crazy Light Boost<br \/>\n<strong>Random Fact<\/strong>:\u00a0Mike Conley, Jr. ended the 2012-2013 NBA season in a debut of the vibrant &#8220;Electricity&#8221; adidas CrazyQuick colorway.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h1>Jeremy Lin<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Team<\/strong>: Los Angeles Lakers<br \/>\n<strong>Joined adidas<\/strong>: 2014<br \/>\n<strong>Go-To Shoe This Season<\/strong>:\u00a0adidas CrazyQuick 2 Low<br \/>\n<strong>Random Fact<\/strong>:\u00a0Jeremy Lin is the only player that currently wears the adidas CrazyQuick 2 Low model in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h1>Goran Dragic<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Team<\/strong>: Phoenix Suns<br \/>\n<strong>Joined adidas<\/strong>: 2013<br \/>\n<strong>Go-To Shoe This Season<\/strong>:\u00a0adidas Crazy Light Boost<br \/>\n<strong>Random Fact<\/strong>:\u00a0Goran Dragic is the only adidas signee on the entire Phoenix Suns roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derrick Rose and Damian Lillard are the first point guards that come to mind when thinking of adidas brand members&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":426648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1204837,1219126],"tags":[1225462,1214888],"cultivate_rss":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.0 (Yoast SEO v24.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>adidas&#039; Association of Starting Point Guards in the NBA | Snkrs Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"46% of the NBA&#039;s starting point guards are signed to adidas. 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