Official Releases

April 4, 2012 – Ben Berry With the Chicago Bulls being first in the Eastern Conference and having clinched a playoff position, the Bulls premiere player Derrick Rose will be in conversation throughout the NBA playoffs. When he’ll return to play is yet to be determined, but adidas is properly prepared with what might be [...]

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 15, 2012 – Ben Berry Light Delivers Derrick Rose green sneakers by way of adidas. Kelly green luckskin nubuck makes up the majority of the upper of the ‘St. Paddy’ adiZero Rose 2.5; very similar to the color adidas used for Rose last St. Patrick’s Day. White is the complementary color with gold used [...]

March 9, 2012 – Ben Berry adidas Basketball takes you to the ‘School of Hard Knocks’. The first sighting of this new adiZero Rose 2.5 came via second half of the 2012 All-Star Game when Derrick Rose changed out of the ‘High Energy’ Rose 2.5s and laced these up. Many thought this pair would be [...]

March 6, 2012 – Ben Berry Li-Ning celebrates the Year of the Water Dragon the right way. All sneaker media outlets reported that the Li-Ning Turningpoint flagship player Evan Turner wore during the Rising Stars Challenge at All-Star Weekend was the only Year of the Dragon-inspired sneaker by Li-Ning but we now know it to [...]

February 22, 2012 – Ben Berry Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, and LeBron James make up the Swoosh’s “Big 3” and will be the only Nike players to have their signature sneakers given the ‘Galaxy’ treatment. All five sneakers tie into the space theme and have glow in the dark soles. Along with All-Star versions of [...]

February 13, 2012 – Ben Berry When I first showed you the adiZero Rose 2.5 there were multiple colorways on display but little did I, or anyone else, know just how early we were looking at these colorways. For his third All-Star appearance, adidas will lace Derrick Rose with a special colorway of his new [...]

February 10, 2012 – Ben Berry For years Nike has released a limited set of sneakers in February to commemorate Black History Month and 2012 is no different. This year an entire pack of sneakers will be released, not just basketball sneakers but us being The Hoop Doctors and all I’m going to just focus [...]

February 8, 2012 – Ben Berry After going with yellow for 2011, adidas Basketball unleashes another set of vibrant colored kicks for the 2012 All-Star Weekend which ensures that the Orlando Magic’s six-time MVP Dwight Howard will be seen. The current Superman of the league will be laced with a new colorway of the adiPower [...]

February 7, 2012 – Ben Berry With the first month of 2012 behind us already, Jordan Brand begins to bring the heat by releasing the classic ‘Cement’ colorway of the Air Jordan IV. When the Jordan IV was chosen for as the Air Jordan for the 2011 Doernbecher collection, that meant that 2012 would see [...]