Ben Berry

Inspired by the Hamptons area of New York as well as celebrating Independence Day at the beach is this new colorway or the FILA ’96. Keeping with the beach-inspired theme, the ‘Hamptons’ FILA GH2 (or FILA ’96 for you newbies) boasts a very clean white tumbled leather upper (with a white patent leather panel) and [...]

In a press conference held in Washington DC and streamed live through an online simulcast, Ahmad Rashad sat down with the reigning NBA MVP Kevin Durant and sneaker designer Leo Chang to officially introduce the Nike KD 7. While we brought you an early look at two colorways already, it was good to get a [...]

Designed specifically to merge on-court sneaker performance with off-court with off-court shoe style, the Reebok introduces the Blacktop Avenue basketball sneaker. Picking up right where the Reebok Blacktop Retaliate leaves off, the Blacktop Avenue features the same, extra urable rubber compound on the outsole that the Reebok Blacktop series was famous for when introduced in [...]

Building on the thriving Retro sneaker market, FILA has been making moves to solidify their spot. This ‘New York Is For Lovers’ colorway of The Cage basketball sneaker is a collaboration between FILA and NY-based sneaker store RISE. The ‘New York Is For Lovers’ colorway of the FILA Cage resembles the red FILA ’96 (originally [...]

June 22nd was a good day for hoops in Boston thanks to the 7th annual Biv20K Blacktop Classic. Hosted by Michael Bivins of Bell Biv Deveo of ‘Poison’ fame (never trust a big butt and a smile) who is actually from Beantown and features teams made up from players hailing from both Boston and New [...]