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For the 2015 BBVA Compass Rising Stars Challenge are these specially-designed uniforms from adidas. What used to be known as the Rookie/Sophmore game starts off the basketball festivities during the NBA All-Star Weekend and the case could be made for this game being having better displays of basketball than the actual All-Star Game on Sunday. [...]

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Holidays are marketable. Using annual happenings as inspiration for product is cool, and for the first time ever, Chinese New Year will be acknowledged by the NBA in the form of special Golden State Warriors uniforms. February 19th marks the beginning of the Year Of The Goat and the restart of the Chinese zodiac calendar. [...]

After officially getting the nod to start the 2015 NBA All-Star Game (and make the team for the second straight year), John Wall will be seen in the ‘NYC All-Star’ colorway of the adidas J Wall 1. The ‘NYC All-Star’ J Wall 1, along with the other signature adidas sneakers, were colorblocked with the 2015 [...]

After a three-sneaker series with Reebok, John Wall became the latest NBA player to have two sneaker deals with different companies when the adidas J Wall 1 first debuted in October 2014. A backstory or some obscure inspiration isn’t need to have a good basketball sneaker, as is the case with the new ‘DC Blue’ [...]

NBA guards sell kicks. Facts. While shooting guards have dominated the signature shoe space for years (see: Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant), the league is currently run with elite point guards. So much so that since the start of the 2013-14 thru right now only a season later, there have been a handful of new signature [...]

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 [...]

adidas has quietly released quality releases in both the Retro and performance sneaker space, here we highlight the ‘Broadway Express’ collection. Comprised of the D Rose 5 Boost, Crazy 8, and Crazy 2 (formerly known as the adidas KB8 II when Kobe Bryant was still with adidas), the ‘Broadway Express’ nickname from the look of [...]

With Chinese New Year coming up and the zodiac changing, adidas is ready for the Year of the Goat with this new sneaker pack featuring the D Rose 5 Boost and the return of the T-Mac 3. Derrick Rose has one of the best logos in the NBA right now and he is likely to [...]

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