#ICYMI - Basketball Shoe Technology, with Julius “Dr. J” Erving, Ray Allen, and Rasheed Wallace

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🗓️ 11 May 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In case you missed this episode on the Playing with Science channel…Lace ‘em up! Explore the past, present, and future of basketball shoe technology with hosts Chuck Nice, Gary O’Reilly, NBA legends Julius “Dr. J.” Erving, Ray Allen, Rasheed Wallace, and Converse’s Jon Garon. Photo Courtesy of Nike.com.

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0:00.0	MUSIC
0:10.0	I'm Gary O'Reilly. And I'm Chuck Knives. And this is Playing With Science.
0:15.0	Welcome to part two of our Basketball Mini-Series where today we focus on
0:20.2	Basketball shoe technology. Yeah. Part one was an old school fully loving
0:26.4	for which we make no apologies. And as a spoiler part two has Dr. J and was
0:32.4	she'd Wallace, Fronten Center and have some pretty cool stories to tell us
0:36.3	about shoe design and how and why some shoes made it on court.
0:42.0	Absolutely. And to keep you fresh we're going to add another NBA star,
0:46.4	Ray Allen who's going to tell us what's going on with the new Nike
0:50.6	Jordans and his shoes are God there just out of this world.
0:54.8	Yeah, super super cool. And to make sure that we know our A to Z's we have
1:00.1	Converses Global Product Line Manager and Fountain of Sune Knowledge, John
1:05.2	Garan. Yes. And with that we must thank the good people of both Nike and
1:09.6	Converse for allowing us a unique access to their athletes during the
1:13.4	Nike Out of Champions launch in April 2018. Although we are not sponsored by
1:18.8	either we have a duty to pay our respects and thanks. But better way to start
1:25.2	them to revisit the point at which basketball shoe technology really
1:30.4	got off the ground. And with that it's John Garan of Converse talking
1:34.4	about the man some of you may not even have heard of Chuck Taylor. Yes.
1:40.0	Here we are at Nike's Art of Champions. Yes, Basketball. NBA. We've got
1:46.0	stars coming up first. We have John from Converse.
1:50.1	Part of the technical team, John. Yes, we're working on product marketing.
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