NBA All-Star Game Heat from Nike

As always, Nike is treating us to some special releases for the upcoming NBA All-Star game. Here's what will be on the feet of Lebron, Kobe and Kevin Durant.

My favorites were the All Star Lebron 8 V2s... just gorgeous.

The Kobe VIs with special All Star box. They don't stand out from his other VIs as much as I would expect, although the hologram on the tongue is cool. (All 3 of these shoes have holograms on the tongue featuring the player's logo and the East/West logo.)

The Nike Zoom KD IIIs (aka, Durants) were extremely lightweight, although the look and feel was too plastic-y for me.

The beauty of the box was hard for this amateur photographer to capture. It has a striped plastic casing, so when you pull the box out of the sleeve, it appears animated! Great use of old school animation technology. Nice touch for a game played next door to Hollywood...

KOBE BRYANT FOOTLOCKER 34th NYC APPEARANCE

HEY FSFers!

Been a minute since I checked in here. Just wanted to stop in and highlight on the Kobe Bryant NYC In-Store Release on 34th St Footlocker on Friday. As Lori posted the other day, the "Black Mamba" released his new sneaker, the Kobe VI here in NY late Friday night after he played the Knicks. Lakers took the Game: New York 96, Los Angeles 113, so I guess Kobe was feeling pretty good when he showed up.

Our buddy Melissa over at Footlocker hooked us up to come in and cover the event. A good crowd came out, although some people were out to get the Foamposites dropping the same night. There were some die-hard fans in the place including some excited kids that prepared questions for Kobe.





Peter Rosenberg from Hot97 hosted the event wearing the Black History Month exclusive model (that I loved). We were given a good breakdown on the makeup of the actual sneaker from a guest speaker as well. Kobe came in after 11pm from the Garden as the Footlocker crowd roared and welcomed him in with open arms. Kobe gave a breakdown on how much he loves the game and answered a few questions from kids on techniques and how they could get into basketball. He gave away a few autographed basketballs and took a few pics with the kids. All in all a very nice short and sweet event.







One thing that stuck out to me was Kobe was not wearing his own sneaker to the release. He was wearing a pair of Black Louis Vuitton Kicks which were nice, but I just feel he should have been rocking the sneaker he was actually promoting. He seemed to have a lot of passion talking about the development that I wished he had that passion on his feet. But no love lost. We'll give you a pass this time Kobe because you were probably rushing from the Game. (wink)

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Kobe Bryant is the Black Mamba

Kobe Bryant is the black mamba. We've always known the nickname, and we're getting used to the sick kicks that look more and more snakelike (see the Kobe VI below).


But what's new and crazy is his upcoming short film, The Black Mamba, directed by renown director Robert Rodriguez (below), and starring Bruce Willis, Danny Trejo and Kanye West (and Kobe himself, of course). He talked about how much fun it was making the film, and we got to see the 2nd trailer, now out on youtube (and below).





For an interview with Kobe about the movie, click here.

Storyboards from the movie...


A collage of Kobes (looking mighty Mike-like, isn't he?)


Kobe's new gear highlights his vision of leadership (above and below).


Unfortunately for LA, Kobe was the only one who came to battle against the Celtics! My first ever Lakers vs. Celtics game and it was GREAT. Go Celtics! 109-93.

Kobe's LA City Series

Graphic Designer Erick Goto, from East LA himself, talks about the East LA Hyperfuse

The Orange County Kobe VI.

Hollywood repped by some 3D Kobes!

Eric Goto testing the old school glasses...

East LA Kobe

Hollywood Pack

Orange County Pack

East LA Pack

The whole LA City Series should come out in men's and youth sizes. All packs include Kobe VI, Hyperfuse (2), and AF1. The East LA Nike Zoom Kobe VI and Hyperfuse Lows have already released (and sold out in LA in no time flat). The Hollywood pack is set to release on February 9th, with the Orange County pack dropping on the 11th.