Nike Designer Blames Adidas Shoes for Derrick Rose Injuries

It’s been joked about as the “Adidas curse” since game 1 of the first round of the NBA Playoffs. Adidas has got to be SICK. Dwight Howard is out of the playoffs due to back surgery  and in game 1, Adidas endorsers Derrick Rose and rookie Iman Shumpert both tear ACLs, leaving them out of the playoffs and possibly missing some games to start next season.

What do all three guys have in common? They wear Adidas. Are there bodies tearing down right before our eyes because of the support on their feet? Welll one Nike designer seems to think so, and took right to twitter to say so.

Jason Petrie, a senior footwear designer at Nike, would go on to tweet:

You got one guy only getting stronger, and one guy breaking down before our very eyes. You chose poorly Pooh…#shouldasignedwithNIKE#GWS

— Jason Petrie (@sevenzro1) April 28, 2012

It was broken down, Petrie is referencing LeBron James in the beginning of his tweet, because ‘Bron endorses and wears the shoes that Petrie designed. Pooh is the nickname given to Rose by his grandmother when Derrick was a little kid. The animosity comes from Rose recently choosing to sign a 13 year deal with Adidas worth more than $200 million. Apparently, in Petrie’s mind, had D-Rose choose Nike over Adidas this potentially career altering injury never would have happened.

He continues on by tweeting:

I speak my mind.You don’t like it, don’t follow!Just my observations!

— Jason Petrie (@sevenzro1) April 28, 2012

Do you agree with him? This is just all bad for Adidas basketball right now.

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