There is another new basketball performance sneaker on the market and it was made specifically for the ladies.
The Nfinity Bionic Lite is just that, lite… in fact it weighs less than the Kobe V coming in at 11.1 oz making it the lightest performance shoe available. Yes, it even weighs less than the Hyperfuse which came in at 14.6 oz. If you’re interested in giving these a try head over to Eastbay.
The Nfinity Bioniq Lite basketball shoe is the lightest shoe in its category. Anatomical last offers better centering of weight in the middle of the shoe. BIONIQ™ Outsole Technology addresses the pronounced Q Angle in female athletes to help protect knees during pivots and quick direction changes. QChannel™ technology helps center the foot and weight when playing. True 5/4 upper provides enhanced ankle support. NfiniFit™ forefoot gives a natural fit around the toes and jumping area. Interchangeable color cards add team or style customization. Packaged in a signature Nfinity shoe case with the five-year anniversary N logo. Wt. 11.1 oz.
Li-Ning has a new model dubbed the ‘001’ now available at Eastbay. Check out the two colorways and a small description after the jump.
The Li-Ning Classic 001 style has been modified for the first time into a comfortable and wearable high-top basketball shoe. Rich and supple natural leather and suede uppers. Thick Li-Ning interior cushion package provides comfort and that “perfect fit” feeling. Interior TPU shank adds midfoot support. Midsole sidewall and heel leather wrap offers improved durability and protection. Clear rubber outsole with artist’s rendtition of the aerial Los Angeles map showing Baron Davis’ UCLA college and Staples Center locations. Wt. 16.6 oz.
The adidas Pro Model is still beating the boards, almost half a century after becoming the first leather basketball shoe of the modern era. While its technical specs may have changed, the basic shape and concept has remained relatively intact. The 2010 spin on this evergreen classic includes interchangeable colour forks to spruce up your stripes plus a chunky sole unit with bumpy contours that simulate the foot’s own natural traction. Thanks to Kenlu and US 10 for the preview.
“On September 15th Nike created a revolutionary new basketball shoe. On October 18th, the NBA threw them out of the game…”
Now Jordan Brand will capitalize on the then ‘Banned’ Air Jordan 1 Black/Red colorway. No word on a release date for now but rest assured these will release in the near future.
With so many versions of the Black/Red AJ1‘s being released already, is this pair a must have for you die hard MJ fans? Check out more images after the jump as well as the commercial that started it all.
Earlier today Sneakerfiles showed you guy the Nike x Converse x Jordan Brand hybrid, and now we have images of Nike’s newest hybrid, the Nike Air Max 1 Hyperfuse. The Nike Air Max 1 Hyperfuse combines the legendary Nike Air Max 1 with this summer’s hottest basketball shoe, the Nike Zoom Hyperfuse. This sample features Black hyperfuse technology on the shoes upper, along with Blue around the mudguard, outsole and tongue branding. Now these are only sample so no other information has been given and with this being the only picture surfacing, stick with Sneakerfiles for the latest news on these shoes.
When it originally launched back in 1994, the Nike Air Go LWP (”Lightweight Performance”) was the lightest shoe in the Nike Basketball stable, and while it’s been surpassed in that category a few times, it’s still a classic silhouette and a pretty good basketball shoe, which of course is fitting as the Air Go LWP will hit stores this October. Check out a couple more looks under the cut. Via eastbay.
This Summer most wanted basketball shoe is available for pre-order in four new colorways at Eastbay. The people at Eastbay manage to have a couple new pairs of the Nike Zoom Hyperfuse for pre-order in four colors including a Cool Grey, Purple and Photo Blue colorway. With each pair featuring a Black outsole, swoosh and laces, and a full size run is available at Eastbay, and are ready to ship out September 3rd. So swing by Eastbay today and snatch up a pair or a couple of pairs.
Nike is always looking for new ways to innovate, and what’s the point of having subordinate companies if you can’t draw from their technology and product line? At the recent World Basketball Festival, Nike debuted the first ever collaboration between Nike, Jordan Brand and Converse, an Air Max basketball shoe with some similarities to the Air Hypermax. Check out the video for the whole story.
Air Force 1, released in 1982, was the first basketball shoe to include Nike’s (NKE) Air technology, which embeds airbag cushions in the soles of the shoes. But the sneaker’s success came largely off the court, as a fashion accessory embraced first by the hip-hop community and now by just about everybody.
Nike did not anticipate this level of popularity. The company largely stopped making AF1 after one year and didn’t resume full-scale production until almost two decades later, when it was brought back by popular demand. Now it’s a staple product; the all-white, low-cut version has been the best-selling sneaker in the U.S. since 2007; overall the brand sold 11 million pairs in 2009 for more than $1 billion, according to researcher Sports One Source. It has also become a blank slate for designers to experiment with different themes, materials, and color combinations. About 1,700 versions have been produced, using everything from 18-carat gold to chenille, to straw, to crocodile skin. Nike, in Beaverton, Ore., touted the shoe’s hip-hop credibility for AFI’s 25th anniversary in 2007, commissioning a song featuring Kanye West. It keeps up a rigorous series of limited editions dedicated to such things as Black History Month and the five boroughs of New York (the latter released just last month). Oh, and some people still wear them to play basketball. —Matt Townsend
Thought to at first have lost its steam, the Nike Hyperdunk returned with a fury in the second half of the 2009-2010 NBA season. In the beginning of March we showed you a black/sport red Nike Hyperdunk, and now we’ve spotted what seems to be that pair’s inverse. Pictured here is the white/sport red-black Nike Hyperdunk that fills out a primarily white upper with select red and black accents. This basketball shoe will see an August release from select Nike retailers nationwide.
Via Foot Locker
The Nike Air Force 1 is one of the classic basketball shoes bearing significant label as a reference to the plane that carries the president of the United States, the Air Force One. This has been a popular basketball shoe which comes available in low, mid and high cut styles in one major design.
To alter the most common Nike Air Force 1 “white-on-white” colorway, two more new releases were spotted, the white/marina blue and white/dark obsidian. Both color schemes use white as the base.
For the general design, each of these Air Force 1 shoes owns a combination of white patent leather toe box with detailed perforations and a midsection of premium leather with tiny perforations. The complementing color makes up the Swoosh, heel embroidered branding and heel tab while influencing the icy outsole. You will know that a shoe is an Air Force 1 with its signature removable rectangular metal medallion that is secured to the bottom of the laces which is often referred to as “debray”. This serves as an exclusive identity to all AF1 sneakers.
Furthermore, the Nike AF1 fresh releases both feature a clean white mesh inner liner, Nike Air Force 1 tongue label, and white shoe laces.
There is something intrinsic about Jordan fans which sometimes makes it difficult for the label to branch out into more lifestyle-oriented design. The responses received are often quite ambivalent, as some of the Jordan purists do believe in retaining a strong basketball root and design in their shoes; meanwhile, some fans are a lot more open-minded and welcome a little fresh change to the label. The new Air Jordan V.2 Grown is one such venture, as the shoes has quite clearly departed from the traditional basketball shoe silhouette and went for a muted, moc Chukkah boot direction.
We’ve already seen the stunning ace of kicks, Nike’s Aqua Zoom Hyperfuse which the Swoosh plans to drop in lead-up to the 2010 FIBA World Championships and now we’re offering you a quick glimpse at the rest of their Hyperfuse flush. Drawing inspiration from the abuse that basketball kicks take on the rugged outdoor courts in China, Nike’s Zoom Hyperfuse comprises of a stability layer, breathable mesh layer and a durable outer skin, which have been fused together into a radical unibody. The engineering used to create the Hyperfuse composite provides a level of precision unattainable with traditional shoe construction. At roughly 12.5 ounces (US size 9), the ultra-lightweight Nike Zoom Hyperfuse embodies superior performance and has been seen on the feet of the Boston Celtics’ Rajon Rondo throughout the NBA Finals.
Shane Kohatsu, Innovation Lead and Fred Dojan, Senior Innovator, from Nike’s Innovation Kitchen recently spoke to the media at the World Basketball Festival launch about the Zoom Hyperfuse, here is what they had to say…
Kohatsu: Fuse is kind of the first baby step in a whole new way of making shoes. It’s high precision, it’s lighter weight, it’s more consistent.
Fred Dojan: We started putting together some of these materials, we kind of thought this was a cool idea how these new materials came together. Shane and I went on a couple of different trips, we went to Beijing and Shanghai, we’re looking at Chinese players.
Kohatsu: Basketball in China is a completely different sport then what it is in the US. It’s almost entirely an outdoor sport. We realized that when we watched the kids play they were wearing everything except basketball shoes. A lot of kids are wearing running shoes, hiking boots and you start to question why. The kids will tell you, what they are looking for in a basketball shoe is great traction, great durability and great breathability. So the thing with running shoes it’s made out of mesh. Mesh is really comfortable, but it’s also very breathable. One of the challenges was how do you make a mesh shoe not only durable for outdoor basketball play, but functional enough for the type of movements you make during basketball. The idea with Fuse is pretty simple. The basic concept is around making these composites.
Dojan: We started trying to figure out what this composite was, how the layers come together, how the materials come together. We have a great innovation team. The new technology we’re developing in this material, really lends itself well for playing outdoors, and just basketball in journal.
Kohatsu: Essentially when you take multiply materials and when the combination creates a property that’s greater then any individual component, that’s composite.
Dojan: We have a base synthetic material, mesh material and a skin. So the functionality of each individual layer is the base material is for where you’d want to have containment on the feet. The mesh is the areas that hold it all together, it’s an unibody construction, it also enables to have windows for breathability. The skin is wear we want to have additional protection on the shoe from abrasion.
Kohatsu: On the foot most the heat is built up in the mid-foot, also in the toe area for moisture. So actually we left it open as much as possible with mesh. On the underside where you need structure, support and shape of the shoe, you can see the base-layer is synthetic, is now loaded in those areas. On top of the mesh, where you actually need to protect the mesh from abrasion. Those areas are covered with this really thin skin material. In basketball there’s essentially certain types of support and structure you need in the shoe. One of them is in the ankle area, where all the support starts. That area you can see the three materials, the skin material, the mesh material and base material are all built up there. In the mid-foot, this is where you have the most variety in foot shape. You want this area to be really conforming, at the same time you want it to be breathable. That allows us to open up the composite material so it’s mostly mesh. That creates a very snug one-to-one fit. As you go into the forefoot, the structure that’s built into the bottom of the material that supports your foot where you’re making a cutting motion. In addition to that, it’s a challenging area because you need support, but at the same time you need flexibility and breathability. It’s been engineered in a way that it provides all three of things. That’s one of the things that does really well with this type of construction. Most basketball shoes are made out of leather, or synthetic leather that we know is durable enough. With a product that is open, lightweight and meshy as this is we have to do a lot of work around long-term durability testing. We went through rounds, rounds of putting these on testers in China, especially where there is a lot of risk of play. Going from a really, really structured synthetic material upper, to a very soft compliant mesh upper, people loved the fit of it, people loved the breathability of it. I think it forces designers to think a little bit differently about designing shoes.
Dojan: We’ve only just scratch the surface of what we’ve developed with this, there’s so many possibilities of where we’re headed with this.
The Nike Zoom Hyperfuse may just be the next hot Nike Basketball shoe that you see everywhere, so now is the time to learn something about it so you can have some wild water cooler conversations about them. Because that’s what most people do at work: drink from a water cooler and talk about the new Nike hoops shoes.
To perfectly blend an everyday sneaker with your favorite basketball shoe, Nike has created another streamlined style that’s sure to add a sporty edge to your look – the Nike Toki ND. This model already showed up using suede material on the upper but this time it switched to a finer touch of perforated premium leather.
By merely looking at the Toki ND, you will notice nothing but the very simple exterior construction it has. The neat paneling that features heavy perforation, the solid pane leather Swoosh, and the milk-coated eyelets and laces. Yet, inside is an encapsulated Nike Zoom unit for low-profile, ultra-responsive cushioning.
In addition, this sneaker also possesses a rubber outsole with herringbone pattern for traction and durability, and a midsole draped with brown strip. The interior lining also comes in white perforated textile.
The Nike Toki ND Perforated in white colorway is one of the quickstrike releases that Premier boutique is now offering.
When we first took a look at the first edition of the Air Jordan 2010 Outdoor many people thought that all of the reinforcements that were featured on the shoe ended up making it look really bulky. While the ankle strap still remains making it a good choice for an outdoor basketball shoe, it has been stripped of some of the other things that didn’t gain the approval of the masses from before.
This is the brand new Air Jordan Alpha 1 Outdoor which is going by the name, For The Love Of The Game. It will feature an entirely tonal university blue upper that will be made out of leather and will sit on top of a white sole. The upper will be a mixture of both smooth leather and perforated leather. Release date information for this shoe is still unavailable but make sure to stay tuned for when it is.
Last month we showed you yet another look at a Nike Air Max Hyperize PE, this time for Zach Randolph of the Memphis Grizzlies. But we can now show you a colorway that will be much more attainable. Pictured here is a black/metallic silver Nike Air Max Hyperize that is part of the AIR ATTACK collection and is available for purchase now for the $145 retail price tag in adult sizes. Perhaps no other Nike basketball sneaker made as much noice this past NBA regular season than the Air Max Hyperize, and now is the itme to join the fan club by making it your basketball shoe of choice for summer time play.
Via Foot Locker
The Converse Star Player Evo is a basketball shoe that was crafted with performance in mind and was built on heritage. It was the first Converse shoe to hit the courts back in the 1970’s and was worn by the likes of players like Julius Erving. People originally liked it for having the silhouette of a Chuck Taylor All Star shoe but with a performance oriented attitude and the iconic Star Chevron logo.
Today the shoe has even further evolved beyond that of what we remember it as from back in the good ol’ days. It takes core elements of the original shoe and builds upon them to create an even more performance oriented shoe. It adds in improved breathability, performance, superior cushioning and impact protection as well as giving the shoe a lightweight EVA midsole with a breathable air mesh upper quarter panel and bootie. These will release this Fall.
When you have a shoe that’s really fly and an innovative textile that’s good-looking as well as technically impressive, it’s sort of a no-brainer to combine the two right? Well thankfully that’s Nike’s thinking, crossing the concept of a shoe with gaps cut out to reduce weight, then covered in mesh—an idea first seen on the Zoom Hyperfuse basketball shoe—with the general silhouette of the Trainer 1.2 Mid to create the brand new Nike Trainer 1.2 Mid Hyperfuse. And it truly is the best of both worlds, besting both original shoes in the looks department, partially thanks to the lack of a midfood strap, which would have looked a bit silly on a Hyperfuse. Check out a couple more looks beneath the cut. Via bkrw.com.
As part of Nike’s World Basketball Festival (which I haven’t done an appropriate write-up on, but I will) Nike will be giving a proper introduction to several shoes we’ve already seen a bit or we’ve seen hinted at, such as the Hyperdunk 2010 and the Hyperfuse. And one more, it would seem: the Air Jordan Alpha 1 Outdoor. A CC Sabathia version has already released, but in the coming months we’ll see a lot more of this shoe which pays homage to the classic AJ1 basketball shoe but with added innovations, a lower cut than the standard Alpha as well as a removable ankle strap. Check out more looks of the upcoming Air Jordan Alpha 1 Outdoor blue/white after the jump. Via highsnobiety.com.
There is another new basketball performance sneaker on the market and it was made specifically for the ladies.
“On September 15th Nike created a revolutionary new basketball shoe. On October 18th, the NBA threw them out of the game…”
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