Athletic Propulsion Labs, the basketball shoe maker, celebrated the one-year anniversary of the NBA ban of their basketball shoes with a special discount sale. On Oct. 19, the Athletic Propulsion Labs Concept 1 and Concours basketball shoes were on sale for the special price of $150.00, exclusively online at APLbasketball.com, a $45.00 savings off the regular $195.00 price.
The shoes feature the Load 'N Launch technology that provides an “undue competitive advantage” to the players. The “BANiversary” celebration event came exactly one year after NBA for the first time in the 64-year history of the league banned a shoe for performance enhancing reasons.
“The BANiversary event is our way of saying thank-you to the vast number of fans of Athletic Propulsion Labs who have been intrigued by our revolutionary Load 'N Launch(TM) technology since the NBA banned our shoes on October 19, 2010. Since then, many people have purchased our Concept 1 and Concours basketball shoes and the testimonials we have received regarding the instant improvement in vertical leap provided by our technology have been extremely gratifying to us” said Ryan Goldston, Co-Founder of Athletic Propulsion Labs.
“We are celebrating the BANiversary event through a compelling offer only available on our website at www.athleticpropulsionlabs.com that will allow people to buy any of our $195.00 basketball shoes for the special price of $150.00 for one-day only on October 19, 2011. We have never before offered any Athletic Propulsion Labs shoes for the $150.00 price and for this commemorative 24-hour period we will be doing so,” said Adam Goldston, Co-Founder of Athletic Propulsion Labs.
The shoes are legal for use in both college and high school basketball.
