Amare stoudemire why the goggles

However, Stoudmire was keen to ensure that the protectiveness of the basketball goggles remained and that style did not compensate for protectiveness. Stoudmire was asked if his eye injury encouraged his team mates to wear eye protection.

Stoudmire said. They recognise the situation and that they would have to experience an eye poke to realise that the need to wear basketball goggles. Following the eye injury Stoudmire wore Oakley Sports Goggles, although he could never get comfortable with the goggles. Stoudmire was not allowed to take the goggles home and he had to keep them in his locker. Like with everything basketball, Nike got involved with make a pair of goggles for Stoudmire.

Nike decided to create a customised pair of Nike Visions glasses for Stoudmire. In this day and age of basketball there are no current NBA players who wear basketball goggles. On February 19, After surgery and recovery, Stoudemire announced he would wear protective glasses for the rest of his career.

His choice was a modified version of the Oakley M Frame Sunglasses with clear lenses. Now, the product that you see him wearing is what he's had a chance to have his hands on for almost going on a year. They took a shield lens and they cut that into two, in order to give Amare that really wide range -- that fuller frame of reference and perspective as a player. The lenses themselves are anti-reflective. They're also hydrophobic, which makes them resistant to fog, and oleophobic, which makes them resistant to sweat and grease as well.

Amare carries a few pairs for each game, and he can wipe each one down real quickly. Most people tend to look at things from a style perspective first, but we really tend to look at things from an innovation perspective.

So a lot of the things that you might like about the look actually was done for the purpose of function and performance. The bottom of the frames is clear, where the top is opaque, and that is actually done for a specific reason.

The opaque nature of the top of the frame actually helps send off flashes and light from overhead, which can really obstruct and hurt his perspective. That is official to Amare's vision. The clarity along the bottom allows for real depth of vision from a low-profile perspective. That actually helps his game quite a bit. The reason for the large nature and the width of the frame is strictly for Amare.

That over-sized look is what Amare needs for his field of vision. The goal is really to A make the frame as close to invisible to Amare as possible, and then B give him the best perspective from a peripheral vision angle as we can possible give him.

Find out more here. See Medalist. Apparently dismayed with officiating, Amare Stoudemire offers goggles to referee in Israel league. Amare Stoudemire offers his goggles, which by the way is not prescription but protective, to a referee.

From David Pick's Twitter post.