After rehabbing his surgically repaired knee for some time now (almost a year), Gilbert Arenas was supposed to return to the Washington Wizards lineup last night.
Much more importantly, Arenas’ long-awaited “Hibachi” shoe was to be introduced by Gil and worn during the game against the Pistons. Sadly, Arenas had to sit out the game, still waiting for team doctors to clear him to play.
But at least the folks at Benihana were happy last night.
Darren Rovell of CNBC reports that the special edition Hibachi shoe was accompanied by some funky promo videos on GilTV.com. Not to mention some cool merch:
The shoes, which apparently went on sales yesterday, will only have a 1000-sneaker production run.
We would say “get ‘em while they’e hot!”, but that’d be lame.
Rovell laments the timing of the shoe rollout, but safe to say the sneaks will get a serious media kick if a full strength Arenas can power the Wiz to a playoff run. And based on the putrid nature of the Eastern Conference, we wouldn’t be surprised at all if Washington makes some serious noise.
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