Olympic

Popular, ESPN affiliated statistical analysis website Fivethirtyeight posted some interesting numbers about the affect an Olympic basketball experience has on NBA stars in their regular season. Many assume, and understandably so, that players who add in the grind of a month long Olympic experience to shorten their already brief offseason would end up hampered by [...]

July 17, 2012 – Ben Berry In case you hadn’t gotten your fill of Olympic-themed sneakers from Jordan Brand last week with the ‘Olympic’ Jordan VI, July is the month for you. As apart of this two-sneaker set, the Jordan Super.Fly is seen here in Team USA colors with a white Hyperfuse upper, navy mid-sole [...]

July 6, 2012 – Ben Berry The first half of 2012 yielded some great classic Air Jordan Retros to the point where it seemed like they would run out of classics to drop. Now getting into the second half of the year, there are still a lot of fire releases which made cutting this list [...]

July 2, 2012 – Ben Berry Four countries are represented in this pack in the form of Brazil, China, USA, and the yet-to-qualify team from Puerto Rico. From these official images we see that along with the ‘Home’ version of the Team USA Hyperdunk, the Obsidian/Red pair serves as an away-type color for Team USA. [...]

June 29, 2012 – Ben Berry Along with the Crazy Light 2 bearing the same colorway, adidas is really doing their thing as far as basketball sneakers go inspired by these Olympic Games in London. The 773 is the team version of the adiZero Rose 2.5 which is why it bears so many similarities to [...]

June 11, 2012 – Ben Berry After riding the Hyperdunk 2011 deep into this year, Nike Basketball prepares to drop the latest installment in the Hyperdunk series with the Lunar Hyperdunk 2012. Exposed Flywire cables are used this time around which maintains the strength of the sneaker while cutting back on weight. The 2012 Hyperdunk [...]