PE Corner

June 12, 2012 – Ben Berry Under Armour has been running their Grind Session program during the past few months throughout the country helping top-ranked high school basketball prospects develop as players with the help of elite hoops trainers. Always making strides in product innovation, Under Armour outfits all Grind Session participants from head-to-toe in [...]

June 11, 2012 – Ben Berry adidas continues their push of the latest adiZero basketball sneaker with the ‘2012 Euro Camp’ Crazy Light 2. A mostly black upper sits on a bright orange midsole and tongue lining with white seen on the Stripes branding on the back. This years’ Eurocamp logo runs is on display [...]

May 15, 2012 – Ben Berry LeBron James has been awarded the Most Valuable Player award for the Following in form like a lot of other LeBron 9s, this MVP edition featured a speckled midsole in the colors of white and red. A red-to-black gradient is used from the outside in on the Flywire panels [...]

May 4, 2012 – Ben Berry With the Foamposite One at the height of its popularity, I’m surprised that we haven’t seen very many one-off pairs…unless you count the exclusives worn by Penny Hardaway. Spike Lee’s ‘Game 4’ Foamposite One features an orange upper with a bright blue along the eyestay, mesh, and laces. Just [...]

April 27, 2012 – Ben Berry A neon green wrapped updated triple-layer SprintWeb upper of with an entirely blacked out midsole except for a panel underneath the heel colored white like the stripes above it makes up the ‘Electricity’ Crazy Light 2 by adidas. The midsole has been modified from the original Crazy Light so [...]

March 31, 2012 – Ben Berry Blake Griffin spearheaded the Zoom Hyperdunk 2011 movement during the 2011 All-Star Weekend by jumping over a Kia to win the Slam Dunk Contest in his first Hyperdunk 2011 PE, so it’s only right that Nike continues the tradition. [...]

March 30, 2012 – Ben Berry #AreYouFromHere The UA Basketball team has been having a up-and-down NBA season to say the least. With Brandon Jennings at the point, Under Armour hand-picked the players they added to their roster as if they were forming an elite team of the top NBA prospects. During the extended off-season [...]

March 29, 2012 – Ben Berry Back in December we told you about the Toronto Raptors plan to debut special camouflage uniforms in honor of Canadian Forces Night and with further plans to wear them several more times this season, players are given the chance to get creative as far as footwear choices go. Li-Ning [...]

March 27, 2012 – Ben Berry There was a time when coming across player exclusive sneakers meant that you knew someone close enough to the player to get the shoes off their feet. It would be apparent who the pair belonged to and you wouldn’t be able to wear them unless you shared a shoe [...]

March 26, 2012 – Ben Berry Kevin Durant shows Trick isn’t the only one who loves the kids. The Nike Elite Youth Basketball League is made up of abut 40 of the best traveling basketball teams ages 17 and younger all brought together to play against each other at three separate events. When the league [...]