To kick off the 2014 Elite 24 weekend, Kemba Walker stopped in during practice at The Avenues College gym where the event’s participants had their first training session. Along with famed athletic trainer Jay Hernandez, Walker took the opportunity to get a workout done while in the new Under Armour ClutchFit Drive. This ClutchFit Drive [...]
August 22, 2014
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Ben Berry, Exclusives, Kicks
This past weekend, I was invited out with the AND1 design team as they toured around the Coney Island side of Brooklyn, NY with Lance Stephenson as they gather inspiration for the upcoming Born Ready collection thru AND1 apparel. Very fittingly, the first stop on the tour was famed Abraham Lincoln HS where Stephenson led [...]
When British Knights popped back up on our radars, it was because of their showing at Agenda NYC this year. While there is a full catalog of sneakers with great basketball stories, it is the impending return of the British Knights Dymacel sneaker has us looking forward to the brand’s return. Aside from the all [...]
With Retro basketball sneaker popularity at an all-time high now seems like the best time to resurrect the British Knights shoe line and bring back several original hoops shoe silhouettes. At the 2014 Agenda trade show in NYC, British Knights had a display set up close to the entrance of the Jacop Javits Center hall [...]
Now that the NBA Finals are over and the professional basketball season has come to an end, outdoor hoops takes center stage. The Reebok Blacktop series debuted in the 1990s after the Pump technology came out in 1989. Those old (or studied) enough will remember the (comedian) Sinbad commercials featuring for the outdoor hoops Reebok [...]
June 18, 2014
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Exclusives, Kicks
AND 1 really seems to put extra effort of personalization into the PEs they give their players like the one shown here for Isaiah Canaan or like the Lance Stephenson Tai Chi Player Exclusive we detailed a few weeks back. Isaiah Canaan is a rookie from Murray State University for currently plays for the Houston [...]
April 8, 2014
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Exclusives, Kicks, PE Corner
On April 1st in NYC, the guys from RUVILLA hosted their first ever VILLA Invitational basketball tournament at the Jordan Terminal 23 training facility is in New York City designed for Carmelo Anthony and the release of the Jordan Melo M10, his 10th signature sneaker with Jordan Brand. For those unaware, RUVILLA started as a [...]
April 4, 2014
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Exclusives, Kicks
With their growing pains clearly behind them, Under Armour continues to make great basketball sneakers but haven’t been getting the attention their products deserve. In 2013 the Anatomix Spawn basketball sneaker officially debuted and is one of the three best basketball sneakers they ever made as well as one of the best basketball sneakers on [...]
April 3, 2014
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Exclusives, Kicks, PE Corner