I've rolled my ankle plenty while wearing high tops," said Bryant ... top shoe that weighed just 11.5 ounces, the lightest basketball shoe ever. It was also the first Nike shoe to use the ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Tim Newcomb covers tennis gear/business, stadiums and sneaker tech. The world has tried so many ways of combatting the ankle sprain.

Many ankle injured basketball players used some form of self treatment ... with only one player changing to a high cut shoe. Table 3 shows the relation of the outcome (ankle injury or no injury) to ...