The Miami Heat overtime loss to the Bulls in Chicago on Sunday afternoon wasn’t all bad for LeBron James. With all the extra eyeballs a nationally-televised game brings, James used this opportunity to debut the upcoming Nike LeBron 11 Elite. Just at this first glance, this updated Nike LeBron 11 Elite looks to feature an [...]
March 9, 2014
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Being born in 1989, I can say that I came of age with a sneaker entity like Sole Collector. Was a member of the forums, ordered the magazines before they were in major sneaker stores like Foot Locker, and even dated messed around with girls featured in those pages (before and after). That being said, [...]
March 9, 2014
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Taking advantage of the upcoming holiday and the brand’s namesake athlete, Ewing Athletics is coming out with new colorway of the EWING 33 Hi called the ‘St Patrick Ewing’ sneaker. Featuring a green suede upper, the aptly-titled ‘St Patrick Ewing’ EWING 33 Hi has orange hits around the shoe. The classic EWING 33 Hi features [...]
March 5, 2014
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Kicks, Official Releases
Lance Stephenson has carried AND1 on his back for the last two NBA seasons with his high level of play, and thanks to the blossoming Indiana Pacer team he is apart of, the street ball brand from 1993 is enjoying a popularity revival. Inspired by the start of the Lent season, check out this Player [...]
March 5, 2014
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FILA is going hard for their share of the retro basketball market by bringing back signature basketball sneakers from their 1990s archive. Here we see Grant Hill’s first shoe with FILA re-releasing in a new colorway to be apart of the upcoming FILA ‘Red Pack’ collection. What was formally called the FILA GH 1 from [...]
March 4, 2014
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AND1 is one of those sneaker companies that I am going to relate to the way the sneaker OGs are into brands like Diadora & Pony. That being said, it makes me happy to be able to honestly type about a new pair of the AND1 Tai Chi celebrating the 20th anniversary of the company. [...]
March 3, 2014
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There was high expectations for Derrick Rose since coming into the league, and before his 2012 ACL injury he seemed to be exceeding them. A player who’s stock was only rising, it wouldn’t be a stretch of the imagination to call D Rose being an All-Star if healthy this season. That being said, take a [...]
March 1, 2014
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Unlike back in the 2011-12 NBA Playoffs when Blake Griffin had his Nike Hyperdunk 2011 Elite rip from the upper, Manu Ginobili actually had his foot go straight thru the bottom of the Nike Air Max Closer V (5) separating the entire sole unit of the sneaker. Manu: I'll begin playing in the new LeBron [...]
February 28, 2014
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Exclusives, Kicks
With the current NBA season’s All-Star Game finished, adidas and Packer Shoes keep the basketball celebration going by re-releasing a Player Exclusive pair of the adidas T-Mac 3 worn by Tracy McGrady exactly 10 years ago in the 2004 NBA All Star Game. While still in Orlando, T-Mac started for the Eastern Conference team in [...]
For the past few years, Under Armour has built quite the performance basketball sneaker catalog and atop the shortlist of great hoop kicks are the Spawn Anatomix. Check out three Player Exclusive colorways of the UA Spawn Anatomix previously only worn by the University of Maryland. Since Under Armour made the jump into basketball, the [...]