retro

Rappers want to be ballers and basketball players want to spit raps. With the two subcultures so closely intertwined it isn’t unusual to see crossover with stars in each lane. If you’ve seen the Lance Stephenson music video to the three verses he rapped over the overwhelmingly popular Bobby Shmurda ‘Hot N****’ track then you [...]

After making our holy grail-ish list of the 23 best Air Jordans from the 1990s, we now have a 2014 Retro re-release of the Air Jordan VI (6) in a color not seen for over two decades. The proper name of the ‘SP Blue’ colored Jordan 6 has been officially cleared up by Jordan Brand [...]

When British Knights popped back up on our radars, it was because of their showing at Agenda NYC this year. While there is a full catalog of sneakers with great basketball stories, it is the impending return of the British Knights Dymacel sneaker has us looking forward to the brand’s return. Aside from the all [...]

FILA worked with Lemar & Dauley on the ‘Mojito Cage’, a teal pigskin collaboration colorway of The Cage basketball sneaker. Featuring all FILA branding on the right sneaker and complete Lemar & Dauley logos and phrases on the left (like “WAVE TRIBE” on the inside of the tongue), the needle point flower pattern on the [...]

Originally debuted on the feet of Kobe Bryant in 1998 as his third signature sneaker with adidas, the adidas KB8 II looks like it will be re-releasing this year. We know this because Iman Shumpert has been wearing a grey colorway in the last few Knicks games. The adidas KB8 II will definitely be re-branded [...]

2014 will see the most Air Jordan Retro releases. This Fall season, an Air Jordan 3, Air Jordan 6, and Air Jordan 14 will release featuring the ‘Sport Blue’ color on each sneaker. We first found out that these three pairs were coming out back in December when we showed 6 upcoming Jordan Retros but [...]

With the weather (gradually) getting better adidas caters to outdoor basketball players by re-releasing the adidas Streetball 2. Made and debuted in 1993 during the Streetball series of basketball tournaments adidas held around the globe, the adidas Streetball 2 features reinforced rubber in the toebox to help the shoe last thru extended basketball games on [...]

Even though Jerry Stackhouse might not be playing in the basketball in the NBA anymore, FILA will make sure that he isn’t soon forgotten by re-releasing the FILA Stackhouse 2 Mid. Originally released in 1995, the FILA Stackhouse Mid was worn by Jerry Stackhouse during his days as a member of the Philadelphia 76ers and [...]

2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the first adidas signature sneaker for Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo so in celebration there will be a few colorways of the adidas Mutombo releasing this year. This white and blue colorway will be the first. White a simple color blocking having a mostly white upper with black [...]

So I’m going thru the normal process of gathering content for the site and I learn that 2014 will have the first Air Jordan Retro that I’ve been excited to get my hands on, in years. And a new colorway at that. The ‘Championship Cigar’ Jordan 4 gives off the appearance of having brown lux [...]