Quote Originally Posted by Fecal Face View Post
I used to be butthurt about Nike. I just understood how sick their team is and how they run shit. SB is almost totally separately run from the normal Nike products. It's very skater-friendly, pretty close to a core brand now. Just like GONZ skates for Adidas and Koston rides for Nike. Shit is for real now. It was different many years ago when they were literally just making Dunks and calling them SB's.
Being paid to rep Adidas/Nike and paying your own money to rep Adidas/Nike are two totally separate things. I hate to be the anti-Nike guy, but thinking of them as anything resembling "core" is really far off.