{"id":901413,"date":"2019-05-09T10:36:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T14:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?p=901413"},"modified":"2019-05-09T10:34:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T14:34:51","slug":"converse-introduces-all-star-pro-bb-basketball-shoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/converse-introduces-all-star-pro-bb-basketball-shoe\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Can Cop the Converse All Star Pro BB"},"content":{"rendered":"
One can’t tell the story of basketball sneakers without first detailing the history forged by Converse<\/strong>. They’ve been instrumental in basketball’s rich heritage with many of the sport’s most influential\u00a0moments funneled through their foundational sneakers.<\/p>\n For more than a century, Converse has walked hand-in-hand with basketball’s maturation. In 1917, they introduced the Non-Skid, historically one of the first sneakers uniquely designed for basketball. Then, five years later, Converse hosted its famous basketball clinic in North Carolina led by brand stalwart, Chuck Taylor. Taylor, a Converse salesman and coach, was spreading the fundamentals and principles of the game across the country through these clinics. His namesake would later be added to Converse’s hallmark basketball sneaker — the Chuck Taylor All Star.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now, for the first time in decades, Converse re-enters the hoops space with an all-new performance sneaker that both odes to the past and resonates in the present. The Converse All Star Pro BB<\/strong> has arrived.<\/p>\n Meant to draw on the brand’s rich hoops heritage, the All Star\u00a0Pro BB, aesthetically, is purposeful in its familiarity. The exterior looks and feel like a mixture of something old and new, however, what’s under the hood is undeniably contemporary.<\/p>\n Nike — a mothership of sorts for subsidiary Converse — pins innovation at the helm of this budding performance sneaker. Tooled with REACT cushioning to support modern-day specifications for world-class athletes, the easily familiar\u00a0silhouette masterfully compounds Converse\u2019s future-familiar design ethos.<\/p>\n The shoe’s upper is constructed in a modernized canvas technically referenced as Nike Quadifit mesh. It’s built to offer extreme lockdown and mitigate friction.<\/p>\n