Kicks

With the city of New Orleans not having the same space ties as Orlando and Houston, Nike will go away from their infamous Galaxy theme in favor of playing off of a fictional NOLA Gumbo basketball league. Just as alligators kind of serve as protection in New Orleans culture, the LeBron XI ‘Gator King’ features [...]

The 2014 NBA All-Star Weekend festivities happen in New Orleans this year. So accordingly, the adidas sneaker pack uses Mardi Gras as inspiration for the colorways. Good enough reason to have a lot of paint speckles to me. Even if Kobe Bryant isn’t participating in any on-court All-Star festivities this year, his presence is still [...]

The official retirement of Allen Iverson from the NBA will not affect the steady re-releasing of his sneaker line with Reebok in the slightest thanks to the signature series being more popular than ever. NYC graffiti artist STASH is becoming well known for his collaborations on sneakers and here we see two pairs of the [...]

After starting the game against the Cavs inside Madison Square Garden in another pair of KD VI (6) customized on Nike iD, Earl changed into the hightop Flyknit version of the upcoming Nike Kobe 9; new signature sneaker of Kobe Bryant. After crossing over and dunking all on this season’s #1 draft pick Anthony Bennett [...]

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The start of a new year means that the NFL is coming to and end and sports media returns to focusing on the NBA and I couldn’t be happier about it. All the teams have about 25 more games left in the season so the NBA… With the season over half-way done, On glance without [...]

So I’m going thru the normal process of gathering content for the site and I learn that 2014 will have the first Air Jordan Retro that I’ve been excited to get my hands on, in years. And a new colorway at that. The ‘Championship Cigar’ Jordan 4 gives off the appearance of having brown lux [...]

It wasn’t until the end of November that LeBron James wore the Nike LeBron 11 for an entire NBA game and that hasn’t happened very many times since. Seems as if Nike has re-“engineered to the exact specifications of LeBron James”-(that is what is written somewhere inside every pair) and addressed the sneaker’s issues as [...]

Shortly after leaving Nike to sign an endorsement contract with adidas, Jeremy Lin not only debuted the upcoming adidas Crazyquick 2 but did so wearing the lowtop form. Before adidas officially announced the endorsement of Jeremy Lin, what broke the news for me was seeing pairs of the Crazy Light 2 Lows with ‘JLIN7’ branding [...]

High dollar auctioned items from some of basketball’s biggest names have recently been up for sale to the highest bidder, with all or most of the proceeds going to charity. Just last week, an authenticated recruiting letter to Micheal Jordan from legendary coach Dean Smith went up for sale to the highest bidder, with the [...]