adidas unveils a new Player Exclusive colorway of the D Lillard 1. The ‘Gauntlet’ adidas D Lillard 1 colorway is made specifically for participants in the adidas Uprising AAU high school tournament. Starting this weekend in Dallas, the adidas Gauntlet features over 150 of the top AAU programs from around the country which will eventually [...]
Kobe Bryant’s most popular adidas signature sneaker gets three new colorways inspired by three of the most storied NBA franchises. Featuring uniform-matching colorblocking for the Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers, and New York Knicks, this trio of new adidas Crazy 8 colorways also has a printed design unique to each city. Upper materials are also [...]
When it comes to high school basketball, there isn’t many bigger stages than the All-American Game. Take a look at uniforms that those selected to the 2015 All-American class will wear. Constructed with the same textiles that the current NBA uniforms use, the 2015 All American Games jerseys feature sweat-wicking technology in areas where perspiration [...]
April 2, 2015
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Ben Berry, Gear, Kicks
For the 2015 All-American Games, adidas offered Player Exclusive versions of the D Rose 5 Boost and D Lillard 1 for the selected high school basketball players. Both 2015 All-American adidas PEs feature a purple upper and a prominently-placed McDonald’s logo on the tongue. Available NOW is the ‘2015 McDonald’s All-American’ colorways of the D [...]
Inspired by the Cherry Blossom festival held annually in Washington DC is this new adidas JWall 1 colorway. With the Washington Wizards looking great, there are certainly a lot more eyeballs on the team than in the previous years. With elite PG John Wall at the helm, it is only right that adidas made this [...]
Inspired by the Rose Festival in Oregon is this new adidas D Lillard 1 colorway. On the sockliner of the adidas D Lillard 1 ‘Rose City’ are new 4-Bar Friday (Damian Lillard’s weekly rap hashtag) lines to compliment this all-red version of Lillard’s first signature sneaker. Last season around this time, a red adidas Crazy [...]
Not all good basketball sneakers need to have a nickname. This new adidas J Wall 1 colorway is the perfect example that. The aptly-titled ‘Sky Blue’ adidas J Wall 1 looks should be right at home in the DMV area, especially with Washington National fans thanks to the baseball accents on the tongue and heel [...]
Inspired by the iconic adidas shelltoe is the ‘Superstar’ D Rose 5 Boost. With an upper made from a material with snakeskin texture, the adidas D Rose 5 ‘Superstar’ gets its name from the popular adidas Superstar from 1969 which originally had the shelltoe shape to make the toebox last longer while playing basketball in. [...]
adidas merges the classic shelltoe design with their top-of-the-line foam technology in the new Futurestar Boost. With the 2015 NBA All-Star Weekend being in New York City, the lights will be brighter than ever; which is the perfect time to debut a new kicks. The adidas Futurestar Boost combines styling found in iconic Stripes sneakers [...]
Many players with signature basketball sneakers recurring inspirations throughout the different models. Derrick Rose has had a colorway dedicated to his mother, Brenda, in the last handful of silhouettes. This is the latest. Red is still Brenda Rose’s favorite color, so the ‘Brenda’ D Rose 5 Boost has plenty of it as well as a [...]