Kicks

With Stephen Curry starting in his second-straight All-Star Game (and this time in his first signature shoe), Under Armour laced him with the ‘Dark Matter’ colorway of the UA Curry One. For the ‘Dark Matter’ Curry One, Under Armour got the nickname from actual dark matter not being able to be directly seen, the material [...]

Noticing that athletic footwear has run with the current trend of using exotic-looking materials, FILA applied that principal to the ‘Materialites’ Stack 2. For the second Jerry Stackhouse signature sneaker, the ‘Materialites’ FILA Stackhouse 2 features a handful of different materials in the construction like a pewter suede upper, relective underlay, and black snakeskin paneling. [...]

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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’ [...]

2015 is the year Air Jordan Retros will be constructed from higher-quality materials than in past years as part of the Jordan Brand Remastered collection, and the French Blue colorway of the Jordan 7 is up next. Originally released in 2002, the Jordan VII ‘French Blue’ also adds popular Jordan Brand colors like Flint Grey [...]

Inspired by the numerous amount of contributions that the African American community added to the entire world through different technological advances, Under Armour releases the ‘Innovative’ ClutchFit Drive in time for Black History Month. A silver colored sneaker with a fully reflective upper (a feature that has come to be an Under Armour trademark), the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]