FILA has announced that it has signed a lifetime deal with NBA Hall of Famer, Grant Hill. More than two decades after he first joined the FILA family, the brand is reuniting with Hill, a proven champion on and off the court. Hill achieved tremendous success in his NBA career and is often touted as [...]
October 25, 2018
Anou Enright
Offbeat
A lot of hype was made of this year’s Team USA Basketball Olympic team—even some experts, like ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith, questioned whether or not the United States should even send our pro basketball players to the Olympics anymore. But, how good was the 2016 USA Basketball team anyway? How does the 2016 Olympic team [...]
October 14, 2016
Rob
Lists, R.S. De France
Dwight Howard probably wouldn’t be a member of the Atlanta Hawks if it weren’t for Grant Hill, one of the team’s minority owners. True story. Per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: Grant Hill was a big part of the process,” Howard said of the Hawks’ minority owner and former fellow Orlando Magic star in an interview that [...]
July 13, 2016
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Blogs
Draymond Green is on fire. During the Golden State Warriors’ 111-101 victory over the Charlotte Hornets on Monday night, Green notched yet another triple-double, this time going for 13 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists. It was the eighth triple-double of his young NBA career, and his third in the last three games. In case [...]
January 5, 2016
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Blogs
With a color-blocking inspired by a television problem that people coming of age these days will never know about is this new colorway of Grant Hill’s signature sneaker with FILA from 1997. Officially titled the ‘Static’ FILA the 97, this version of the sneaker formerly known as the FILA GH3 gets its simple white-and-black colorway [...]
With the popularity of tonal, monochromatic (single-color) basketball sneakers at its height, FILA looks to ride the wave they were an early part of with this new Grant Hill III colorway. For the ‘Mint’ FILA 97 (GH3), a combination of light green tumbled leather and suede are used to construct this new colorway of Grant [...]
Inspired by the Hamptons area of New York as well as celebrating Independence Day at the beach is this new colorway or the FILA ’96. Keeping with the beach-inspired theme, the ‘Hamptons’ FILA GH2 (or FILA ’96 for you newbies) boasts a very clean white tumbled leather upper (with a white patent leather panel) and [...]
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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Kicks, Official Releases
Retro kicks from the 1980s and 1990s are more popular than ever making it the perfect time for older basketball sneaker brands to reclaim their position in the sneaker realm. FILA has been making good use of the current environment According to the line drawings from the upcoming Spring 2014 catalog, we see a new [...]
September 13, 2013
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Exclusives, Kicks, Sneak-a-Peek