Becoming an annual tradation, NIKE, Inc. will be releasing a new “Be True” collection celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community, for Pride Month 2022. Taking part of the lineup this year is a “Be True” edition of the SB Dunk Low.
This offering of the Nike SB Dunk Low features a white leather base with wear-away overlays that changes colors in the sun. Multi-color flair also animates the branding on the top of the tongue and the sock-liners, while solid yellow and green take over upper heel panels, respectively. Lastly, a neon-highlighted “Nike SB” logo appears in the center of the tried-and-proven traction underfoot.
After closer inspection, reveals some playful details on the low-top SB Dunk, the colors of the rainbow are recreated via the stitching that keeps the profile swooshes in place, matching the stitching on the heel and the “BE TRUE” text on the lateral heel well.
Look for the Nike SB Dunk Low “Be True” to release during Summer 2022 at select skate shops and Nike.com. Stay tuned for more updates but, for now check out a detailed look below.
Celebrating the 1995-96 NBA Championship season where the Chicago Bulls achieved a 72-10 regular-season record, setting the best regular-season record in NBA History. Back in December 2015, Jordan Brand debuted the Air Jordan 11 “72-10.” For 2022, the brand will revisit the theme with the release of the Air Jordan 11 Low “72-10” during the summer months.
This Air Jordan 11 Low features a Black leather upper and tongue paired with black suede material on the eyelets and heels. Additional details include a glossy Black patent leather mudguard with gym red contrasting accents. A white midsole atop a milky translucent outsole with a special message on the inside tongue tag that reads, “Inspired by the most historic season led by the greatest player ever” completes the design.
Air Jordan 11 Low “72-10” Color: Black/Gym Red-White-Sail Style Code: AV2187-001 Release Date: May 14, 2022 Price: $190
The shoe will come housed in a special box with “72-10” storytelling. Look for the Air Jordan 11 Low “72-10” to release on May 14th at select retailers and Nike.com set at $190 USD. Check out more detailed photos below:
During SNKRS’s preview of the Jordan Retro Spring/Summer 2022 lineup, viewers of the live stream got a preview of each model and the expected release date. During this live, we were shown a brand new Air Jordan 4 “Military Black.” Despite the Jumpman teasing us with the golf version of the Air Jordan 4 “Military Blue,” it appears that the creatives are trying to appease our disappointments with this upcoming silhouette.
Now that we get an accurate description of the upcoming release, this offering of the Air Jordan 4 comes in a similar color blocking as the “Military Blue” release, but all the Blue details will be replaced with Black. The rest of the shoe features a White leather base with Neutral Grey overlays. All three colors, White, Black, and Grey, will appear on the rubber outsole.
Air Jordan 4 “Military Black” Color: White/Black-Neutral Grey Style Code: DH6927-111 Release Date: June 25, 2022 Price: $200
Hopefully, we get a proper release of the “Military Blue” this year since 2022 marks the shoe’s 33rd anniversary. Originally scheduled to release on May 21th, the Air Jordan 4 “Military Black” is now rumored for a release on June 25th via SNKRS and select retailers for $200. Check out detail picture of the sneaker below:
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.
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 NikeKD 15 to release in the coming months at select retailers and Nike.com. Stay tuned to our Sneaker Reporter for more information.
The Duke Blue Devils didn’t make it to the National Championship game but Coach K won the war with his legendary career. Coach K and his Blue Devils fell short to their college rival North Carolina on Saturday 81-77. Even though Coach K was sent home his career speaks for itself. In the career of Mike Krzyzewski, he’s won five NCAA Championships and his coaching tree contains 14 coaches that have also shown success. One thing about Coach K is that he was a born leader and he demanded excellence out of every one of his players. Mike Krzyzewski had 96 players that he coached that made it to the NBA which is unreal. His legacy on the court will forever live on through his players and his staff from the Duke family tree.
Below I made a list of the best Nike Duke PEs that have graced the court since Coach K started at Duke in 1980. With Duke being a part of the Nike Basketball Family it made sense to showcase some of the best we’ve seen from any college schools.
Nike AF1 Off-White – Coach K
Check out some of the Nike Basketball Duke PEs that have graced the court this season…….Straight 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Nike Kyrie 8 “Duke” PE
Nike PG 5 “Duke” PE
Nike Zoom Freak 3 “Duke” PE
Nike KD 14 “Duke” PE
In this article, we will be showcasing some of the dopest Duke PEs for the SneakerReporter Top PE Series. Over the years Duke has been able to get their hands on some of the best Nike Basketball kicks of all time. You will see everything from Kobes to Kyries as the Blue Devils have been able to rock some serious heat since 2012. Check out my list below and let me know if there is any Nike Duke PE that I may have missed and what you would put on the list.
10. Nike KD 6 “Duke” Player Exclusive – Rasheed Sulaimon
9. Nike Kyrie 4 “Duke” Player Exclusive – Tre Jones
8. Nike Kobe A.D. “Duke” Player Exclusive
Cam Reddish & Alex O’Connell
7. Nike LeBron 10 “Duke” Player Exclusive
Josh Hairston,Quinn Cook,Jabari Parker
6. Nike PG 2.5 “Duke” Player Exclusive
Zion Williamson, Cam Reddish, RJ Barrett
5. Nike Kobe 4 “Duke” Player Exclusive – Nolan Smith
4. Nike PG 1“Duke” Player Exclusive
Marvin Bagley III, Trevon Duval,Jayson Tatum
3. Nike Kobe 5 “Duke” Player Exclusive – Miles Plumlee
1. Nike Kobe 6 “Duke” Player Exclusive – Kyle Singler
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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.
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.
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.
Air Jordan 11 Low “72-10”
Air Jordan 4 “Military Black”
Nike KD 15
