Official Releases

Following the annual tradition of holiday-themed sneakers for premiere Nike Basketball players, take a look at the ‘Christmas’ colorways for Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, and LeBron James. On the Nike LeBron XI (11) ‘Christmas’ edition,a minty theme is used with standard Christmas-red highlights seen on the laces, Swoosh branding, and inner lining. A snowflake pattern [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUDGIgXKmlE In this spot we see Harlem rappers Cam’Ron & Juelz Santana team up with Santa for a pick-up basketball game in the latest Reebok commercial for the upcoming ‘Ghost Of Christmas’ pack. Here we see The Diplomats front men challenged to a hoops game out in Miami by some locals. Little do they know [...]

Over a year has passed since I spoke with Dwyane Wade about his partnership with Chinese sportswear company Li-Ning on the formation of WADE Brand. Now into his third signature basketball sneaker, Dwyane Wade & Li-Ning will make their first real attempt to break into the US sneaker market with a major release of the [...]

This December, adidas will continue to build on the recently-revived popularity of Dikembe Mutombo by releasing this simple, clean pair of the adidas Mutombo signature sneaker. Seen in mostly black, this pair of the adidas Mutombo has all of the original features like a tribal weave print seen on some of the upper panels as [...]

Inspired by the blue crabs indigenous to Maryland, the aptly-titled ‘Maryland Blue Crab’ colorway of the Nike KD VI gets its design directly from the crabs often ate at crab feasts around the DMV area. The upper has a texture similar to the crab with the rest of the ‘Maryland Blue Crab’ KD VI colors [...]

Despite the 3-8 start to the season, the Brooklyn Nets are still very marketable and there is still a big enough market for team apparel. That said, take a look at the adidas Crazy 8 basketball sneakers inspired directly by the Brooklyn Nets. For the Brooklyn Nets colorway of the popular adidas Crazy 8, a [...]

Earlier yesterday, our feature writer Allen gave an early look at the New York Knicks sleeved uniforms for this Christmas but now we can take an official look at the entire set. All 10 NBA teams playing on Christmas 2013 will be wearing these ‘BIG logo’ adidas adiZero sleeved jerseys with their uniforms. With similar [...]

One of the better trends with signature basketball sneakers up for customization through the Nike iD program is that the graphic features from the more limited edition pairs are able to be tweaked at will. The Nike KD VI (6) is the latest example of this with the watch-inspired ‘Precision’ design now open for customization. [...]

Before the end of November a new adidas D Rose colorway will release called the ‘Chicago Nightfall’. Said to gets its inspiration from the colors of a Chicago sunset, the purple represents Lake Michigan as well as the night sky, the yellow comes from the reflection of a setting sunlight off of Lake Michigan and [...]

Under Armour has already established that they have some of the best performance basketball sneakers, but aside from that, the brand has also built the reputation of releasing lowtop versions of their more sought-after models very quietly or at inopportune times like after basketball season. That seems to be in the past however as the [...]