It wasn’t very easy for Dennis Schröder to tie his favorite basketball shoes when he just arrived on the Oklahoma City Thunder. A fan of Kevin Durant’s shoes, Schröder couldn’t imagine that the disgust for Durant in Oklahoma would be so great that the fans would question the use of the KD signature sneaker on the court.

Even Russell Westbrook came to question Schröder’s shoe choice:

“Even Russ was giving me s**t sometimes like ‘Why you wearing these?’” he said of his former teammate, according to Erik Horne of The Athletic. “I used to wear them growing up, so I felt comfortable playing in them. I had PGs on some and tried to switch them, but last year I had KDs on a lot. “People were like ‘Why you gotta wear KDs?’ I was like ‘Bro, it’s just a shoe.’”

The KD VI was Schröder’s favorite sneaker for a long time. But the Thunder player eventually tried the Paul George and Kyrie Irving-signature Nike models. Today as an established player on the Oklahoma team, the point guard knows he should not use a KD again:

“I had to switch something because you know … the KDs … people don’t want to see them in here,” Schröder said. “I was like ‘OK, let me go back to Kyries.’

After surrendering the pressure from franchise fans, Schröder no longer listens to questions about the quality of his Nike’s:

“It’s better now. I don’t have to hear nothing from the crowd like ‘Why do you have these VIs on, the KDs,’ so I was like ‘OK, let me fix it.’”

The Oklahoma City team is not the only one that has some restrictions on a specific type of shoes for players to wear on the court. The Golden State Warriors have banned the use of any Lebron James’signature shoes for five seasons. The exception was for Kevin Looney who after multiple foot surgeries is free to choose the most comfortable sneaker for basketball.

Although comfort and safety are important factors in the choice of basketball shoes, it is good to take into account the taste of the fans …. this can cause boundless headaches as Dennis Schröder reported.