Hoop Dreams is a documentary story about two Afro-American students who lived and studied in Chicago and dreamt of becoming professional and famous basketball players. This basketball movie is directed by Steve James and became one of the best sport story ever told. It premiered in 1994 and got the audience love at once. This movie also got a lot of critics and became the most discussed story that year including Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption, Heavenly Creatures and Quiz Show. (More …)
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Converse NBA Player Exclusives for Elton Brand and Kirk Hinrich.
Early in the year I made mention that I thought Alando Tucker and Kyle Korver would be battling for the best colorways of Converse this year. I might have to eat some crow on that statement. Recently Elton Brand and Kirk Hinrich took to the floor wearing some fantastic PE’s. EB rocked the Red/Black/White EB2, the closest you’ll get to these is in NBA Live 10. (More …)
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S Weapon Wednesday: Black/Red Weapon 86
There have been a few different Weapon 86 colorways that I’ve seen this year, unfortunately most of them never got a wide release. At least any release that I was aware of. Which really helps to fire me up about these Black/Red Mid top Weapon 86 joints that are up zappos.com. (More …)
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S Weapon Wednesday: Alando Tucker PE Weapon EVO
Welcome to the Converse Blog’s Weapon Wednesday! Today I’m giving some love to one of the NBA players wearing Converse this year, Alando Tucker of the Phoenix Suns. Here he is pictured in two different colorways of the Weapon EVO, a black/purple/orange and then a white/orange/purple for media day. (More …)
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S Weapon Wednesday: ConverseOne Weapon Ox
So I was playing around on ConverseOne last night and I came up with a few designs that I thought I’d share with you. If you don’t already know, the Converse Weapon OX is now up and live at ConverseOne.com. First up is the Converse Weapon OX Wyoming colorway, which is inspired by one of my favorite color combos in all of sports. That combo belongs to the Wyoming Cowboys! I was so hoping that they could’ve pulled off the huge upset over Texas last week…oh well they’ll have to settle for some love from the Converse Blog. (More …)
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Dominic James’ search for employment.
I love sports drafts, fantasy football drafts, and rough drafts. For fans of sports drafts, June is the most wonderful time of the year. In June you have the MLB, NHL, and NBA drafts. While I enjoyed watching the MLB draft and I look forward to the NHL draft, it’s all about the NBA draft for me. (More …)
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Bobby Jackson Converse Ad.
Bobby Jackson was drafted in the 1997 by the Sonics with the 23 pick and was traded to Denver before the season began. Jackson was one of three first round picks that Converse signed along with Brevin Knight and Jacque Vaughn. Ron Mercer, also from the 1997 draft, would later on wear Converse in the NBA after previously wearing Converse at Kentucky. (More …)
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Danny Granger In Converse!
So the title of this post might be a little misleading, but it is actually true. I really meant to post these before now, but I never got around to it. These are pictures from All Star weekend featuring Danny Granger of the Pacers wearing the classic black core colorway of the Converse All Stars. This was pretty fitting as Granger was making his first All Star game appearance. I got these pictures from yahoo/Getty Images. (More …)
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Josh Maravich is that dude. Converse All Stars in Action
Sometimes I see something that just warms my feet, or is that my heart? Either way a few days ago I came across these photos over at UniWatchblog.com. This would be Josh Maravich, son of the legend Pistol Pete Maravich. He recently played in a LSU alumni game and decided to rock his Father’s floppy socks with some Chucks. (More …)No Comments »
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Josh 10:05 pm on February 20, 2010 Permalink
Pretty sweet pair of Hinrich PE’s up for bid on EBAY.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=160406640381&Category=50135