Basketball Outfit: Jordan Melo M8, Most Worth Value-for-Money Basketball Kicks

Initially, the Melo M8 was released as soon as Carmelo joined forces with the New York Knicks. The colorway was inspired by the team’s colors which are orange and blue. The shoe comes packed with visible Max Air in the heel and Zoom Air installed in the forefront for high performance. Since he's a versatile forward that can post up, handle the ball and slash from the wing, I was really interested in playing these to see how they feel and perform. And its comes out very worth of money spend.

Shine bright like a diamond!

The thing I like the most of this kicks is because of lots of protection and padding around your foot. Nothing like the super light and minimal kicks of today. The shoes sit on a Air Max heel and a Zoom Air for foot combo cushioning, which turns out was very responsive when cutting and landing even though it sits a little higher than what I'm used to. There are no heel notches inside the shoe or a heel cup on the outside like the Hyperdunk. If you lace the shoe up to the top you will get the lockdown feel you need.

Meanwhile the tongue is made of a thick mesh and provides the only heat and moisture release.The M8's have a mostly flywire upper with a firm touch around the ankle area. Orange patent leather on most of the toebox and running along the sides up to the ankle area. Normally after a couple of wears you start to see the toebox crease and on certain shoes it will start bowing in high wear areas but the M8 is very stiff and rugged even.

Normally after playing 2-3 hour of basketball on a sometimes my heels, arches, knees and pretty much everything hurts. However after playing the Melo M8's I didn't feel any pain in my feet or knees! Very surprised that I loved the cushion so much as I tend to dislike the inconsistent feeling that combo cushion setups bring. However, the heel was wonderful and provided plenty of cushion while the forefoot did the exact same thing. The foam used was nice and soft as well. Since the shoe is fairly rigid the softer foam helped out quite a bit with the fluidity of the heel to toe strikes while in transition.

Sort of No-Look-Pass HAHA

Overall the Jordan Melo M8 is the most comfortable shoes that I had wear so far. Not to be bias because I am big fan of Carmelo Anthony, but this one had really kicks me into the game. The shoe stands as one of the best models in Carmelo’s signature line. Plus this one I had the orange colour version, well its shine me more (HAHAHA). Nothing feeling better than having a great game.