41.   The NBA All-Star Game has become the ultimate showcase for basketball shoes and the companies who make them.

42.   The money bought basketball shoes, travel bags, uniforms and balls.

43.   The shoes are resold in Japan, where early Nike and Adidas basketball shoes are status symbols among teen-agers and young adults.

44.   They are obliged to tell their fathers the moment high-top basketball shoes go out of fashion.

45.   This proliferation of barnaclelike knobs and mysterious ridges serves to distinguish the Nikes from the Filas, the cross-trainers from the basketball shoes.

46.   Was it when Nike sold its first basketball shoe?

47.   Webber previously endorsed basketball shoes made by Nike Inc.

48.   With that, Yeomans made the switch in mid-November, wearing the Reebok basketball shoes which the women players wear.

49.   Police Sgt. Craig Coleman said the field was littered with body parts, seats, planning books, basketball shoes and playing cards, among other items.

50.   A man who owned a shoe shop was buried in a pair of basketball shoes.