2015

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is said to have worked closely with adidas on the 2015 Black History Month collection. Each adidas sneaker has a specific set of quotes and references: Crazy 8 – “Fundamentals are the Foundation for Excellence – ‘61 –‘65” The Crazy 8 features a canvas upper to pay homage to basketball shoes of the [...]

Continuing with the Black History Month sneaker releases, Jordan Brand gets in on the 2015 Nike BHM collection. Along with all the pieces from the Nike BHM collection, Jordan Brand is releasing a new colorway of the Air Jordan 1 High as well as the Air Jordan XX9 as part of this years’ Black History [...]

In 2013 when Stephen Curry left Nike for a Under Armour endorsement, the fact that the Swoosh didn’t see signature shoe potential in Curry was a deciding factor in the decision to join Team Armour. About 18 months into the deal and Under Armour is scheduled to release the Curry One basketball sneaker. The day [...]

Nike has a new LeBron 12 colorway inspired by his superior athletic ability. Called the ‘23 Chromosomes‘, this new LeBron 12 colorway gets its name from basketball being so deeply embedded in LeBron James that it is in his DNA. Along with the official release, the DNA readings graphic seen on the Hyperposite upper panels [...]

Even though Kevin Durant has a lot of different colorways come out of his sneakers, many of them can connect back to his Oklahoma City Thunder uniforms which isn’t common with NBA players that have a signature shoe. The new ‘Lacquer Blue’ KD7 is a good example of one that matches. This colorway has the [...]

Marketing is a funny thing. With the current climate in sportswear, signature athletes being active doesn’t always affect sales. LeBron James is out for a few more games (in his longest inactive session of his career) & Kevin Durant is still wearing his sneaker from last season but don’t expect this to stop the well-designed [...]

While MANY sneaker news outlets (including us in April ago SORRY but we corrected in time for the August releases) reported this year’s Blacktop Battleground silhouette revival as the II or the second installment in the streetball sneaker line, the Reebok Blacktops that have been seen and releasing all of 2014 is actually the Blacktop [...]

The Nike Air Flight 89 is one of the greatest sneakers ever. Designed by Tinker Hatfield in 1989, the Air Flight 89 is essentially a Air Jordan IV since it was released in the same year and shares the same exact midsole and outsole as Michael Jordan’s fourth signature sneaker. While 2014 marks the 25th [...]