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August 30, 2012 – Ben Berry John Wall’s sneaker from last season, the Zig Encore, was much better than his first for so many reasons.  The Zig Slash was a good idea that wasn’t executed the best and felt rushed which is probably why it was notorious for having Reebok’s proprietary Zig sole separate from [...]

July 5, 2012 – Ben Berry With these pictures we can see two different pairs of the upcoming adiZero Rose 3. One pair, I believe, is the actually release version while the second pair a sample that won’t release that is a cross between the Rose 2.5 and the Rose 3. The exact same Sprintframe [...]

April 12, 2012 – Ben Berry Ever since the Zoom KD series started, Kevin Durant has had a great amount of involvement with all of his signature sneakers and that really shows in the latest installment. The name ‘Three 4 Five’, which is seen on the tongue, is a play off the tradition tongue imaging [...]

March 19, 2012 – Ben Berry When signature sneakers are made for players, samples and 1-of-1s are commonly given to the player who the kicks are made for. For some (myself not included), basketball sneakers aren’t casual-wearing material so to remedy that adidas made this one-off especially for Dwight Howard. As the story goes, the [...]

March 8, 2012 – Ben Berry Both the Howard II and adiRose 2.5 are constructed from heather grey woven goodness and black denim. Solid white is seen on branding stripes of both pairs and adidas popular ‘High Energy’ orange is used as a subtle accent color. [...]

July 28, 2011 – Ben Berry As with most numbered Jordans, the Air Jordan XIV holds its own special place in the career of Michael Jordan. If you remember MJ was wearing the XIV when hit that iconic crossover against Bryon Russell and drained a shot from outside the 3-point line to win the ’97-’98 [...]