Joe La Puma spills celebrity sneaker tales to Jalen Rose
for this week’s “Renaissance Man,” that memory came flooding back. As the host of Complex’s online show “Sneaker Shopping,” La Puma uses sneakers as a window to the lives and values of celebrities, artists and athletes who share their philosophies on kicks, their collections and sometimes heartfelt tales about soles.“What I like is that everybody has a specific sneaker story,” La Puma told me.“But also about how the first pair made you feel, how the worst pair you had made you feel.