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adidas might be the most anxious entity for Derrick Rose to return to professional basketball play. In anticipation, we get an official look at the D Rose 773 III. For the third sneaker in the Derrick Rose team sneaker series with adidas, a triple-layer upper is used here with a perforated Sprintweb material used to [...]

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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 [...]

At a time where Kevin Durant has the time to ready himself for another Oklahoma City Thunder post-season run, Nike also seems to be ready themselves having the Nike KD7 ready to for store shelves. As far as performance sneaker features go, these two early pairs of the Nike KD7 look to feature Zoom Air [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Now that the World Cup is here, Jordan Brand jumps into the fray of sportswear companies with themed releases surrounding the (actual) Football event being held in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil by releasing the limited ‘Brazil Pack’ featuring new colorways of the Air Jordan VI (6) and Jordan CP3.VII AE as well as a complete [...]