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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 [...]

May 3, 2012 – Dan Favale When playing the Miami Heat, it’s better to be lucky, than good. The Heat enter tonight’s game having won their first two playoff games of the year by a combined 43 points, seemingly portraying a formidable opponent like the New York Knicks, as a mere stepping stone to a [...]

May 3, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Now, the Utah Jazz are a relatively young team. Postseason-wise, they’re all basically newcomers save for Devin Harris and Josh Howard, both ghosts of Dallas Mavericks’ past. As the regular season dwindled into a three-team race for one spot between the Jazz, Suns and Rockets, I vouched for the [...]

May 3, 2012 – Allen Moll Even though the 2012 NBA Playoffs are in full swing, USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo is hard at work trying to put together the next Dream Team that will take on the World in the London Olympics this Summer. Even with last season’s NBA MVP Derrick Rose going down [...]

May 3, 2012 – R.S. De France Ahead 2-0 in their first round playoff series, the Los Angeles Lakers have eaten the Denver Nuggets for dinner in their first two games. But, is that good for the Lakers in the long run? Can the Nuggets make it a series when it shifts to Denver? In [...]

May 2, 2012 – Ben Berry 2012 is the 23rd anniversary of the Jordan 4, which might explain why so many of them are releasing this year. 23 years ago during the first round of the Eastern Conference, Michael Jordan (wearing the Jordan 4s) and the Chicago Bulls defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers and went on [...]

May 2, 2012 – Dan Favale Derrick Rose or no Derrick Rose, the Philadelphia 76ers were supposedly no match for the Chicago Bulls. And then Game 2 happened. The Bulls, in their first playoff game without the reigning MVP, were handed a 109-92 beat down on their home court. And now, all of a sudden, [...]

May 2, 2012 – Allen Moll Most college hoops fans are still winding down after a thrilling NCAA Tournament, with the Kentucky Wildcats taking home the 2012 NCAA Title. In the process, an unbelievable new trend of starting 5 underclassmen has become not only a key to success, but possibly even the blueprint for winning [...]

May 2, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Normally after the season closes we put together a Top 10 Dunks of the Season highlight video. But as we were looking at the highlights we realized it was far too difficult to pick just 10 dunks. We also noticed a trend that many of those top dunks [...]

May 1, 2012 – Griffin Gotta The Dallas Mavericks, as believed would happen once the postseason began, have exhibited the toughness, the ability to simply not die, that is necessary in order to advance. After dropping another loss by a thin margin to the Oklahoma City Thunder last night and falling down 2-0 in this [...]