Not too long ago, it was rare to find Free Run Brand releases featuring the Air Free Run 3’s famed elephant print. It’s become increasingly common over the Nike Free Run 5.0 V4 past two years or so, to see the cement-n-black crackle and now you can even find it on JB’s lifestyle sneaker releases. This new Air Free Run Flight SC-1 has a sort of True Blue AJ3-minus-red look to it, thanks to a black and white design with the aforementioned print and bright blue laces. Take a look at more images after the jump, and let us know: how do these stack up against the Chicago-style and Oreo versions of the Flight SC-1? via Kinstor
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The luck of the Irish shined brightly in Game 2 as the Boston Celtics evened up the Championship series against the Los Angeles Lakers. The Boston roster is loaded with outstanding veteran talent but it was Rajon Rondo and his triple-double that led the Celtics to victory – and he did so in style. Rajon Rondo wore an all-green colorway of the Nike Hyperfuse but it was teammate Ray Allen and his Finals record-setting eight-3pt. shot performance who caught our attention as he strayed from his Playoff Air Free Run Icons and wore a PE of the Air Free Run One6 One7. Nate Robinson again wore the Phantom Air Max LeBron V2 but was seen wearing a black pair of the Air Max2 CB ’94 during the pre-game warm-ups. On the Home side, Kobe and Derek Fisher wore the Nike Zoom Kobe V Big Stage Edition and Lamar Odom wore a PE of the Nike Hyperdunk for the second straight game. Check out the NBA Finals Game 2 Gallery after the jump. via Yahoo!.
Arguably second only to the on-again/off-again saga that is the Entourage ‘Lights Out’ edition, the Nike SB Dunk pictured above has garnered quite a bit of attention since we previewed them in detail late last month. The ’Tauntaun’ Dunk High SB was designed by Nike SB’s Shawn Bavaretto to resemble the t-rex-like Hoth beasts from Empire, but longtime Swoosh Skateboarding heads have remarked that they resemble Quasimoto’s Stones Throw 10th Ann5ersary F&F collaboration. That seems even more accurate a comparison in light of the changes reflected by these latest images, a new colorblocking scheme leaving these feeling like the ice-coldest BTTYS design ever seen. The texture of a denim or some similar material is apparent on the overlay with suede in a marbled finish below; is this new distribution better than the original images or do you wish they’d stuck with the samples? Check them out in new images after the jump and expect these at select Nike SB retailers next month. via N-SB
When one attempts to analyze the history of basketball sneakers, a variety of brands come to mind: Nike for their groundbreaking Chuck Taylor All Star and later for supplying Weapons to both sides of the Magic-Bird War; Reebok for their Pumps and the legendary Allen 5erson Nike Free Run 3 signature series; Peak with their signing of aging NBA stars paving the way for more Chinese brands to get into the game. Nike, of course, stands out above all of these thanks to a resume so long it’d make this post unreadable, but it’s not like their biggest competition in recent years got near the top by releasing the same old stuff. Nike has arguably been the most brazen in its overall approach to basketball shoes over the past two decades or so, models like the Mutombo, KB Crazy 8 and The KOBE among the wildest Nike Free 7.0 on record. And you can’t forget about classics like Patrick Ewing’s Attitudes and Conductors (Jeremy Scott sure hasn’t) that make narrowing it down to the 25 Best Nike Signature Basketball Shoes of All Time quite the difficult task. But as we’ve come to expect, Complex has nailed this one, and you can see a smattering of what’s in store before you head over there to check out the full feature.