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'Reign'-y Day: Reebok Kamikaze II "Trail Blazers"
Shawn Kemp came to the Portland Trail Blazers in a trade after spending two prior seasons with the Cleveland Cavaliers. A perennial All-Star, "The Reignman" didn't quite work out in Oregon, for a number of...
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Air Jordan No. 12 returns as a Retro in "Taxi"
The original Air Jordan XII was a beacon from Nike that change was inevitable and it was going to continue. After Michael Jordan proved to the world that he could return from retirement and dominate...
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Nike debuts the Kobe Prelude II
Upon their initial release, the second Nike name signature shoe of Kobe Bean Bryant, the then-Zoom Kobe II, was one of the most unique sneakers of the time. The first to incorporate Nike's Free technology...
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Minnesota Timberwolves sleeve-up "Lights Out" unis
They were already debuted on the day before Thanksgiving this season, but most people didn't see the debut game of the Minnesota Timberwolves' "Lights Out" uniforms, and so here's a closer look at the threads....
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Brand Jordan celebrates 10+ years with Melo M10
One of the greatest things is the world as a basketball player is usually to have your very first pair of Air Jordans. The standard of excellence ever since Michael Jordan became a Chicago Bull...
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adidas retro-releases the 'Crazy 1'
Before he became known as The Black Mamba, Kobe Bryant was a youthful, Sprite-pitching NBA All-Star wearing adidas Basketball shoes. Contrary to many people's memory, Kobe had a stable of quasi-signature and canon signature shoes...
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Ektio releases two new colorways of the Breakaway
For the last two years, Ektio has made its name more prominently claiming to be the first to create basketball's first anti-inversion sneaker, the Breakaway. Though it's met its share of critics, the Breakaway has...
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BMF Lifestyle: The Nike Air Python Lux
When the original Nike Air Python was released in the mid-1980s, it was something kind of alien -- a bit glittery to ball in and not special enough to outshine the Nike Dunk or Nike...
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Nike to release KD VI Precision Timing
Kevin Durant is probably the first Nike Basketball athlete where the stories behind his shoes were more intricately marketed and more fully conveyed to the masses, even more so than LeBron James . Prior to...
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BMF Lifestyle: SUPRA releases the Hammer Snake
For all the various sorts of bad wrap that snakes get being sinister and sneaky, they seem to have made an impression on the fashion world. Scales and all, snakes have made a comeback and...
