Kareem’s Spring

I don’t know anything about basketball, which is maybe the wrong starting point for caring about a Kareem Abdul-Jabbar sneaker. But the adidas Jabbar Low showed up in white and blue for spring 2014, and it’s just a good shoe. Clean leather, minimal branding, the kind of design that works on its own merits. Most celebrity shoes feel like you’re buying the name—you wear them because someone legendary did. This one almost doesn’t care if you know who Kareem is. I couldn’t make a basketball shot if my life depended on it, but I could wear these without feeling like I’m borrowing someone else’s credibility.