I'm coming out with my line of shoes and my very first shoe is called 'The Nethia.' How we came up with the name is that my legal name is Linnethia and we shortened it.
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I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.
I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure.
I didn't grow up thinking, 'Oh, maybe someday I'm going to have a shoe named after me.'
My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.
I know my name gets used illegally all the time all over the internet. You know, it is a trademarked name, so it will be something that we always have to deal with. I never needed to change it. It was always fine with me. It is a strange name; that's for sure.
I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things.
I was named after my mother's maiden name.
I wasn't aware I was trading on my good name; I've never had a good name.
Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.