Nike

There isn’t much positive going for the Los Angeles Lakers right now. By the numbers, this current 2013-14 Lakers team is in position to end the season as the worst team in franchise history. Nick Young is one of the bigger sneaker aficionados in the NBA right now and secured the black pair of the [...]

Since the Easter holiday is only a couple of weeks away, Nike is ready to lace their flagship players like Kevin Durant and LeBron James with new coloways of their signature sneakers. Nothing new on the ‘Easter’ KD VI as far as performance features go. The colorway inspiration comes from the Easter egg hunt with [...]

With the NBA Playoffs just around the corner, Nike gears up their signature basketball athletes with their Nike Elite sneakers in this new ‘Hero’ colorway. All of the technical sneaker aspects of the Nike Basketball Elite ‘Hero’ Series are the same as from the Team Elite series colorways scheduled to release in April. There is [...]

The NBA Playoffs are about a month away so the time is ripe for Nike to unveil the updated versions of their premiere signature sneakers for the post season. Take a look at what Kevin Durant, LeBron James, and (possibly) Kobe Bryant will be wearing as part of the 2014 Nike Elite Team sneaker series. [...]

Unlike back in the 2011-12 NBA Playoffs when Blake Griffin had his Nike Hyperdunk 2011 Elite rip from the upper, Manu Ginobili actually had his foot go straight thru the bottom of the Nike Air Max Closer V (5) separating the entire sole unit of the sneaker. Manu: I'll begin playing in the new LeBron [...]

With the city of New Orleans not having the same space ties as Orlando and Houston, Nike will go away from their infamous Galaxy theme in favor of playing off of a fictional NOLA Gumbo basketball league. Just as alligators kind of serve as protection in New Orleans culture, the LeBron XI ‘Gator King’ features [...]

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The start of a new year means that the NFL is coming to and end and sports media returns to focusing on the NBA and I couldn’t be happier about it. All the teams have about 25 more games left in the season so the NBA… With the season over half-way done, On glance without [...]

It wasn’t until the end of November that LeBron James wore the Nike LeBron 11 for an entire NBA game and that hasn’t happened very many times since. Seems as if Nike has re-“engineered to the exact specifications of LeBron James”-(that is what is written somewhere inside every pair) and addressed the sneaker’s issues as [...]

Kyrie Irving has improved his level of play every year he has been in the NBA, and entering his third season with the Cleveland Cavaliers, he has enjoyed a success players with double or triple his professional career length have not. One benefit that is granted to elite basketball players is being the face of [...]