Gym shoes are by far the most important gear for a basketball player. The best basketball players are undoubtedly the hardest on shoes because of the extreme stress and impact of leaps, sprints, skids, twists, collisions and screeching stops.
Even back in 8th grade as he was moving up into AAU ball, Grayson Allen was blowing through so many pairs of high priced athletic shoes that his mother began making him work to pay for them. His feet were huge even then, size 15-16, and when Nate James came to see him play, Allen had to duct tape his shoes because they were falling apart again.