Golden State Warriors backcourt #SplashBrothers duo, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, both spent #NBAAllStarNYC Thursday busy announcing their new shoes. The announcements, as first reported by Diamond Leung of the Bay Area News Group, were a mere two miles and thirty minutes apart. Both Leung and San Francisco Chronicle reporter Rusty Simmons attended Thompson’s event. Simmons later attended Curry’s launch party.
Thompson apparently will have some creative control with his new shoe deal with Chinese company ANTA, whose product quality was recently reviewed as “hit or miss”, and which Klay said in the press conference is the fourth-largest shoe brand in the world:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfbXR8R5FrY&w=560&h=315]According to Leung, Thompson’s agent, Bill Duffy of BDA Sports, said, “All the top companies came after (Klay).”
Klay’s slogan will be “Team Priceless”:
Here's the setup for Klay Thompson's big shoe announcement: pic.twitter.com/nQXADcmEEb
— Rusty Simmons (@JRustySimmons) February 12, 2015
There were also bobbleheads at the event:
Anta has bobbleheads of Klay Thompson wearing his new shoes pic.twitter.com/JXty5EzEIJ
— Diamond Leung (@diamond83) February 12, 2015
Curry’s day began with a new commercial from UnderArmour:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6o8PbAsGKA&w=560&h=315]While reports from his press conference were few and far between, there were plenty of photos and clips from his party that night with the likes of Jamie Foxx.
First off, the #ChefCurry food truck was outside:
Chef Curry at Under Armour launch party pic.twitter.com/rAqEpr9R94
— Steve Kyler (@stevekylerNBA) February 13, 2015
Inside, Foxx and Curry:
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Stephen Curry is addressing the crowd at his Under Armour launch party. pic.twitter.com/lbfKhWdog0
— Rusty Simmons (@JRustySimmons) February 13, 2015
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With the help of marketing company Narrative, there was also a cake of Curry’s shoe. Other attendees included teammate Festus Ezeli and former Warriors power forward Anthony Tolliver.
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