KD 15 Comes in Brooklyn Colorway Just In Time For Playoffs

by Akeem Ivory | Apr 8, 2022 | Featured, Sneaker Releases, Sneakers

It’s hard to believe that the partnership of Kevin Durant and Nike is getting closer to seeing that two-decade mark, and arriving just in time for the 2022 NBA Playoffs Durant’s next signature shoe. The KD 15, arrives in Brooklyn Nets colors with bright accents.

Featuring a predominantly White upper with Black accents found throughout. Much like the KD 14, the KD 15 comes in a lower cut with an external cage for lockdown support. Next, we have sole comes equipped with full-length Zoom Air cushioning as well as Cushlon foam. You’ll also notice the Presto-inspired midfoot strap has been removed.

Nike KD 15
Style Code: DC1975-100
Release Date: 2022
Price: TBA

It also features “KD” tongue logos, “EASY” printed on the heel tabs with his number “7” on the lower heel. Finishing off the design is a paisley pattern on the insoles atop a Grey rubber outsole. Additional color on the branding hits, a paisley print KD logo on the insoles, and a Beige-colored highlight the main features of the pairs.

Check out the official photos below, look for this Nike KD 15 to release in the coming months at select retailers and Nike.com. Stay tuned to our Sneaker Reporter for more information.

Apr 8, 2022 No Comments

Release of The Polaroid x Nike SB Dunk Low Has Been Postponed Til April 12

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by Akeem Ivory | Apr 5, 2022 | Sneaker Releases, Sneakers

Those of us looking to enter the Snkrs Draw for the Polaroid x Nike SB Dunk Low this morning were given a time til about a minute in a half into the draw before the tab turned from “Join Draw” to “Notify Me,” so what happened was this a glitch in the matrix or was it just another fumbled released by Nike?

Well, the answer is that this sneaker release has been postponed until next Tuesday, April 12th. So just like the photo that is taken with the polaroid product your eventual L or possible W will take time to develop.

So look for the Polaroid x Nike SB Dunk Low to release on April 12th at select skate shops and Nike.com. The retail price tag is set at $120 USD.

Apr 5, 2022 No Comments

Closer look at The Polaroid x Nike SB Dunk Low

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by Akeem Ivory | Apr 4, 2022 | Sneaker Releases, Sneakers

Polaroid is easily one of the most iconic photography brands of all time, synonymous with instant photos, this photography company continues to provide both film and compatible cameras to the masses. So to graciously honor the 85-year-old company Nike has teamed up with Polaroid to release a special edition collaborative SB Dunk Low.

Despite teaming up with fragment design, Teva, and even Star Wars in the past, Polaroid has rarely ever brought their Spectrum to sneaker culture, But tomorrow, however, that change t capture this moment thanks to Nike SB, who have offered their very own Dunk Low.

This offering of the Nike SB Dunk Low is quite simple featuring a Black leather base with White appearing on the branded tongues, heels, and rubber sole. Rendering the construction of this sneaker as nearly monochrome. Highlighting the shoe is its Rainbow Swooshes on the sides nodding to the Polaroid logo. Multicolored insoles, and toe box embroidery, while the Polaroid name sits comfortably atop the right heel tab, lace tips, and left insole complete the design.

Look for the Polaroid x Nike SB Dunk Low to release on April 5th at select skate shops and Nike.com. The retail price is set at $120 USD. For a closer, more detailed look at the Polaroid x Nike SB Dunk Low, see below.

Polaroid Nike SB Dunk Low DH7722-001 Release Date

Apr 4, 2022 No Comments

Atlanta Episode 3 Recap: Scamming Season?

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by Akeem Ivory | Mar 31, 2022 | Celebs, Featured

This one was cool. Going to rich parties and meeting weirdos. Season 1 was better.

As Earn (Donald Glover), Van (Zazie Beetz), Darius (LaKeith Stanfield), and Al (Brian Tyree Henry) navigate the European leg of Paper Boi’s tour, the crew is invited to a party hosted by a billionaire whose taking a liking to Al’s music. As they walk through London neighborhoods to get to Fernando’s home, reluctant as away Earn has to explain to Al why this would be a good look. Earn lays out the stakes of their invitation. “How many billionaires do you know?” Earn asks Al rhetorically. Establishing the value an investor relationship would bring to the table, access to money facilitating their dreams and ideas.

Upon arrival at Fernando’s place, It looks as if Earn was tricked by another white men who illustres a picture that is far from the reality. Expecting a home behide iron gates we see a ran down hoke that looks condimed whit the window covered by newspapers to block off anyone from seeing what lays inside. Earn knocks on the door and is greeted by a white women who looks to surprise to see them as they are her. But Will (Patrick Kennedy), the wealthy investor, takes them up a set of steps and leads them into a much swankier, elaborate home within the “decoy home.” Fernando (Daniel Fathers) explains that the house’s duplicity functions as a security measure that allows him to hobnob with “influential people from around the world.” Fernando flexes his wealth after Al is impressed by the in-house Nando’s fast-food chain, which, in true exclusive fashion, is free for all invited guests. “You the Nando Nando?” Al asks Fernando, but no, he just likes the peri-peri sauce and is wildly rich.

Van, Earn, Al, and Darius arriving to the front of Frenando’s home; Photo credit, Oliver Upton/FX

The crew is spilt in three different ways after getting into the party Earn and Van go with Will to meet an artist living in Fernando’s home. Darius ventures off to get a drink and also find the bathroom as Al stays to speak with Fernando. The two miscommunicate over their differing definitions of tree, and when Al tries to smoke some tree of his own, Fernando escorts him to his private poker room where they can smoke, drink, and gamble.

In the poker room, Al lights up at the table with a few older European men who inform him the game has a $20,000 buy-in. Al throws stacks of money on the table and, for a little dramatic flair. As the poker game commences, Fernando asks him about his beliefs in the divine and the occult, to which Al is unsure but confirms that he does believe in God. Fernando tells him of his own spiritual awakening, A story about a Black ghost that broke into his home and touched his spirit, leaving him covered in ectoplasm. Al laughs it off, likening it to a sex dream, but remains noticeably uncomfortable. After redirecting attention back to the game, Al wins a huge hand. Without celebration, Fernando walks away, and the other men at the table saunter off without a word. Al sits there confused. He won $40,000 from the game, and yet Fernando has disappeared when it is time to pay up.

On another side of the house, Darius is in the kitchen trying to get some gin, when an Asian woman attending the party assumes he’s trying to flirt and dramatically shows her ring to ward off a conversation. When he clarifies his intentions, the woman, Will’s fiancée, MK (Jasmine Leung), is rightfully embarrassed but unfortunately shameless in her apology. “I get hit on by Black men a lot,” she tells Darius. “Black guys love Asian women,” she continues. Darius brushes it off and they part ways on good terms, but a white man named Socks (Hugh Coles) tells Darius that he overheard the conversation and asserts that it was “fucked up.” Darius insists it was a “lightweight” offense, but Socks is more invested in signaling his solidarity with Darius as a Black man than actually practicing it. Drawing a crowd around Darius and exaggerating the details of the exchange, Socks declares to a group of hysterical white allies that what took place wasakin to 12 Years a Slave. Despite Darius trying to explain that it’s not that big of a deal, it’s too late, and when the white mob sees MK, they pounce on her without asking him what he wants. As it turns out, the performance of supporting him was nothing more than a license for white moral authority.

Atlanta' Episode 3 Recap: A White Party in London - Rolling Stone

Daruis shocked; Photo credit, Oliver Upton/FX

Meanwhile, Will introduces Earn and Van to TJ (Sheyi Cole), a young Black British artist he is financing. TJ introduces himself as a “multi-hyphenate” artist deal in all forms of art, despite the hype TJ’s work leaves both Earn and Van at a loss for words. As they look at one of his pieces, a photograph of an old white man in a Supreme sweatshirt and no bottoms, TJ calls them to note the “sadness” of the work. If there is anything particularly sad about the work, it is its lack of imagination. Will pulls Earn to the side to get his thoughts on TJ and his plans to invest in his idea for an influencer hostel. It’s obvious that Earn doesn’t think TJ is talented and worries that he might be taking advantage of Will. But, his unable to give Will a straight answer due to the fact TJ is watching him like a hawk every time he gets the chance to speak with Will.

Atlanta Season 3 Episode 3 Recap and Ending, Explained

Earn spotting Van at the pool; Photo credit, Oliver Upton/FX

Earn eventually finds Al, and the two vent about their rough nights. Earn faced with an apparent moral quandary, to protect that poor (but actually extremely wealthy!) white man from his own gullibility or let it continue to happen. Earn’s concern is partly selfish and misguided; he thinks TJ will make it harder for himself to access Will’s capital. The way Al sees it, sure, TJ might be scamming Will, but TJ is Black, and there are plenty of white kids scamming. As the words wash over Earn, he goes back to find Will but is stopped in his tracks by a framed photograph of three white men at the founding of Cape Town’s branch of the First Bank. Behind them, a Black man stands shackled in the shadows. Suddenly, Earn realizes the error in his thinking: The Black scammer is no match for white plunder. Thus when Earn finds Will, he decides not only to play along with TJ’s scheme but to get in on it as TJ’s manager. Will, of course, eats it up.

After Earn gets his piece of the pie, Al decides it’s time he got his. Seeing a Fernando’s most prized possesion is the tree he build his home around Al takes. a chainsaw to it to let Fernando know his going to pay what his owns. Earn stop Al from complete destroy the tree and on there way out Al makes a show of robbing the billionaire, ransackes Fernando’s home to make up for his debt.

Atlanta is a show that has teeth, meaning that their are so many underling layers within the story. In this particular episode the story take queuces from how older white people can feel threaten by a small group of black people, for example a white woman sees them from her window and cowers behind her curtains as she talks into a phone. Or how classism is another from of racism because its a system that seperate people based off differences in the case money. Also white guilt, the reaction Socks taking more offense to what MK told Darius when trying to reject him.

Mar 31, 2022 No Comments

Union Announces Nike Dunk Low “Argon” Release Date

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by Akeem Ivory | Mar 21, 2022 | Sneaker Releases, Sneakers

The Union Los Angeles and Nike collaboration dubbed, the “Passport Pack” kickstarted last month with the release of the highly limited and exclusive Dunk Low “Pistachio.” Their partnership will now be expanding into 2022 with an upcoming Union x Nike Dunk Low “Argon,”paying homage to a rare pick-up Chris Gibbs purchased on a trip to Japan.

The “Passport Pack” essentially celebrates Chris Gibbs’s three homes: New York, Los Angeles, and Tokyo. Each colorway in the set is a modern take on a Dunk from the early ‘00s that helped lay the foundation for the Dunk to become the classic that it is today. Capturing the essence of global exploration, cultural inspiration, and personal evolution, this collection encourages you to get out and get what’s yours. Each pair comes with hangtags made to look like baggage claim tags housed in special boarding pass-themed packaging.

These Nike Dunk Low styles put a new spin on the classics that inspired Gibbs (owner of Union LA) years ago, hiding in plain sight behind a see-through synthetic, hastily-stitched grid pattern tearaway upper that encases the leather underneath, whose overlays are light and dark blue, respectively. The white paints the swoosh as it does the tongue and laces; orange tags and emblems mark the profile, displaying the retailer’s “UN/LA” and Frontman branding; and red threads are found along the edge of every panel.

Look for the Union x Nike Dunk Low “Argon” to be released March 31st exclusively at Union LA store and website, the retail price set at $150 USD. For a closer look at the Union LA x Nike Dunk Low “Argon” ahead of the release, see below.