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Now normally, I wouldn’t care about a random athlete putting his name on an ugly pair of shoes since it’s a fairly common occurrence. But since I hold a light grudge against Gilbert Arenas, and it’s been a slow news day… I’ll partake in this.

Presenting the GilIIZero’s (Pronounced Gil 20s) by Adidas.

Just look at them, I want you to let the ugly of these shoes marinate in your retinas for a moment. Let the visual stank simmer and soak into your corneas. I’ve heard that Gilbert Arenas ran a blog, but I never took the time to visit until today. After seeing these shoes I just HAD to go read what was going through his mind when he decided to put his name on these things.

In true Gilbert Arenas fashion, this guy is delusional about the situation. He even says the prototypes the designers created originally were uglier than these. Check it out:

And I’m sitting there looking at the shoe like, “I hope you guys aren’t serious. Because I’m not going to wear this shoe.” If you can picture this shoe, it looked like a newer shell toe mixed in with a little basketball and a little bit of ballerina in the front. So I looked at the shoe and I straight killed it. I killed it so much I think I made everybody uncomfortable. How do I go from the Gil Zero to this? That was my whole argument. Nobody is going to wear this shoe.

So through all that process of tearing down and getting rid of and complaining and complaining, this is what we have. Now we have the Lamborghini of shoes. Not to say Hondas are bad, but we have the Lamborghini of shoes now. I think everybody is going to dig this shoe.

I’m a trend setter, people. I don’t want other shoe companies to try to jack my style now. My swag is too phenomenal. If any other basketball player out there wants to compete with my shoes, go ahead, we can have a 50 and Kanye right here. We can start it up, baby. I’ll be the bad guy. We can have a sneaker war.

… If only he put this much energy into not choking in the 4th quarter of important playoff games. tsk tsk

Skip to 1:22 into the video, and see for yourself.

Also, you’re welcome for the free promotion Gilbert.