Ben Berry

The basketball sock market has exploded in the last few years thanks largely to the sportswear brands shifting back to the high sock look. Seeing the opportunity, company Stance filled a void by offering stylish options at a quality high enough to rival the leading sportswear brands that were doing it. Their success has led [...]

As an update to the existing Foot Locker mobile app is Shoemoji; the sneaker icon keyboard. Featuring every Air Jordan (along with two Jordan 6 & Jordan XX9 options), the Shoemoji keyboard also has the current signature sneaker of LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Derrick Rose, Damian Lillard, Kevin Durant, John Wall, Chris Paul, Kyrie Irving, [...]

In 2014, Jordan Brand introduced the LAB concept; which takes an Air Jordan silhouette and constructs it with materials seen on a different Jordan Retro. It is now the Jordan 4s turn to get remixed. Taking the patent leather debuted on the Air Jordan 11 and making the whole Jordan 4 upper out of it, [...]

With the NBA team in Charlotte gone back to the Hornets name (and uniform colors) it is only proper that Jordan Brand pay homage to the North Carolina city that helped honed the basketball talent of the player the company gets its namesake from. As part of the Air Jordan Retro Remastered collection, the ‘Midnight [...]

Inspired by the summer colors seen in Barcelona, Spain during the 1992 Olympic Games is a new colorway of the Jordan 7. Looking at the ‘Barcelona Days’ Air Jordan 7, it is easy to draw a comparison to the now-defunct Charlotte Bobcats uniform colors. However, the official word from Jordan Brand/Nike Inc. is that this [...]

Inspired by Akron, Ohio’s history in the rubber-making industry is the black ‘Rubber City’ Nike LeBron 12 EXT. LeBron James isn’t the only noteworthy thing to come out of Akron, Ohio. The city is widely known for factories which many of them make rubber goods (mainly tires) and then ship them around the world. A [...]

The 2014-15 NBA season marks a lot of firsts for Kyrie Irving. Not only did he get his first signature sneaker this year, but this is his first time in the Playoffs. To mark that occasion, Nike made this new Kyrie 1 colorway. Simply (and officially) called the Kyrie 1 ‘Home’ this pair has a [...]

Inspired by the early career of Jamal Mashburn is this new FILA MB colorway in collaboration with in-state sneaker retailer Oneness. Featuring a premium suede upper colored in University of Kentucky blue, the Oneness x FILA MB collaboration serves as a nod to the collegiate career of Jamal Mashburn. As a further nod to Kentucky-based [...]

After first being seen at the 2015 NBA All-Star Weekend in NYC on the feet of Andrew Wiggins, Jeff Teague, and Kyle Lowry is the new, upcoming adidas CrazyLight Boost 2015. Highlighted for being the first adidas Basketball sneaker to feature the sewn Primeknit upper, the 2015 CrazyLight Boost finds the best balance of lightweight [...]

adidas unveils a new Player Exclusive colorway of the D Lillard 1. The ‘Gauntlet’ adidas D Lillard 1 colorway is made specifically for participants in the adidas Uprising AAU high school tournament. Starting this weekend in Dallas, the adidas Gauntlet features over 150 of the top AAU programs from around the country which will eventually [...]