The Melo M7 advance looks exactly like the Melo M7 but features a flywire upper as opposed to a leather upper in order to make it lighter to fit Melo when it comes to his fast pace playoff game. Sadly the Knicks are down 2-0 in the series but being from NY here at DRIPT we are confident that our 'Bockers will come back to win the series. If not then were gonna be following Lebron and the Heat since he has our favorite shoe this season. The Welcome to NY edition of the Melo M7 advance will be limited to 144 pairs, will come in a special box, with a special t-shirt and will only be distributed to special NikeTowns and House of Hoops locations, which means NY is going to get most of it. They will release on June 1st and go for $130. Below we feature pics of the shoes in Box and Melo commercial for the M7.
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Three different editions of Lebrons Signature shoe have arisen for the Lebron 8. First we saw the V1 then the V2 and now the P.S. V1 featured a leather upper and sick color-ways like the South Beaches. The V2 moved on to a lighter shoe which used mesh and had color-ways such as the entourage, and the christmas edition and even the pink edition for kids. And Finally we move on to the P.S. which will be the version that features the ever-so popular "dunkman" edition. We got to see some crazy color-ways for the V1 that were never released like the SVSM Home and Away Pe's and the Knicks home and away PE's which I would have paid a lot of money for. And Finally we have the V2 lows which will hopefully be coming out soon, but honestly I think they should have released Lows for each edition, but we are very excited over here at DRIPT for the Sprites. One of our employees already dropped for an early pair from Air-randy on ebay. So now that the Lebron 8 P.S. has finally released we want to discuss some of the things behind its design and where the shoe comes from. Jason Petrie, the lead designer for the Lebron line had a vision of a three-sneaker-in-one concept. Lebron sees the season in two parts, the regular game season and then playoffs. While at the same time he has a strong love for the lion. They combined these concepts considering Lebron is the King. The Lion works in three stages, the stalk, the attack and the kill and this was the inspiration behind the three shoe concept and also the fact that they get lighter from the V1-V2-P.S. The Final P.S. is 2.5 ounces lighter than the V1 with more support on the upper considering the hyperfuse is a technology that is consistant throughout without natural flaws that leather can have. From leather to mesh to fuse and from new team, to family to champions? maybe, who knows. Now that the playoffs have begun, lets keep a close watch on these teams. Here at DRIPT though we wear pinstripes on the daily and now that its time for playoffs for the Knicks and the Rangers were wearing Orange and Blue tops with red white and blue bottoms. If were lucky the knicks will beat the celtics. fingers crossed. Here we have a recent video explaining the history and heritage behind the new lunar flow and its inspiration and details. It is really interesting stuff, especially about the teddy bear. We were gonna be getting them anyway but now we really want them. let us know what you think. At Coachella Kanye came out and surprised us all in what seems to be the Air Yeezy 2. Since the debut in the short "The Black Mamba" it seems to be all people can talk about. He walked out on stage for the 3rd act wearing his Yeezy 2's. His art Director tweeted around the same time to fans to "start lining up" which is only going to make even more hype for these kicks. Personally were interested to see the other colorways and more detailed images before jumping the gun on this one but feelings over here at DRIPT are that the Yeezy1's are nicer.
WTF!!! no one here at DRIPT is happy about the cancellation of the "Cheech and Chong" release on 4/20. We personally are wondering if Nike is going to release something else on 4/20 in its place but we wont know until it happens. Word on the street was that it has something to do with the movie production studios putting a call in and basically deeming the release a copyright issue...WHATEVER! We're bummed over here but maybe they will make it up to us consumers.
Let us know how you feel about this or if you got something to add in the comment section. Ever have an intern who stumbles upon greatness, or just something really cool to read and then saves the writing but not the webpage because he cleared his history, cache, and cookies before leaving...We do! Its okay we love him and forgive him, considering this is his shout out. We wont give you his name though cause thats just not nice. But anywhooo, he stumbled upon an article containing motivational quotes from Nike and Nike Athletes. These are not all of them but they are the top ten of the website that wrote the article. We dont necessarily agree with their order so we took the quotes and jumbled them around a bit to fit our liking. Look below and let us know what you think. The final quote is from Barry Sanders and we only put it last because its kind of long and didn't hold the attention of our intern since hes got A.D.D.
Here they are: 1. Just Do It- Nike 2. “Everything you need is already inside. Just do it.” — Bill Bowerman 3. “Greatness is earned, never awarded.” - Nike 4. “Training is the opposite of hoping.” – Nike 5. “The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t ‘ is you. And you don’t have to listen.” - Nike 6. “My better is better than your better.” - Nike 7. “There are clubs you can’t belong to, neighborhoods you can’t live in, schools you can’t get into, but the roads are always open.” - Nike 8. “All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you’re not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you’re the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no, until all the no’s become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly. AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES.” 9. “That’s right. I’m out of here. Do not chase me down or text me or try to talk me into going out to lunch. I don’t have time to figure out if I have time for a run. I’m just going. The world will not fall apart in my absence. I might miss somebody’s birthday cake or a discussion of last night’s season finale. Even if I do, who cares. I’m coming back with a state of mind three coffees, two flirtatious emails and a week of vacation can’t buy. Just do it.” 10. “Too often we are scared. Scared of what we might not be able to do. Scared of what people might think if we tried. We let our fears stand in the way of our hopes. We say no when we want to say yes. We sit quietly when we want to scream. And we shout with the others, when we should keep our mouths shut. Why? After all, we do only go around once. There’s really no time to be afraid. So stop. Try something you’ve never tried. Risk it. Enter a triathlon. Write a letter to the editor. Demand a raise. Call winners at the toughest court. Throw away your television. Bicycle across the United States. Try bobsledding. Try anything. Speak out against the designated hitter. Travel to a country where you don’t speak the language. Patent something. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. JUST DO IT.” ~ Barry Sanders (1992) So as of right now, there really is no nickname for these beautiful kicks but were going to name them the "Lightbulbs" based on their new yellow color being used. These are going to be available on April 30th for $130 and will most likely be something Kobe will be wearing during the playoffs. Let us know your thoughts below considering for us this is a definite cop.
This Chukka will be available for the first time and is done quite tastefully with a collaboration with Bodega Boston for its release. This footscape features an elastic piece around the ankle area to allow for easy slid on and off and for a stretchier feel at that area of the foot. This Chukka combines hair and perforated suede with a woven midsection on the upper which allows for great breath-ability. The shoe features a sewn on cat eye on the tongue area with a Bodega "B". This shoe is part of a three part release titled "Black Cat, Good Luck-Bad Luck".
Bodega, the famous kicks underground stop from Boston is collaborating once again with Reebok this year with the Night Sky. Already they got together and produced the "Cottonmouths" which in our opinion for straight FIRE! Each pair of the night sky's will come with a matching T-shirt and water bottle. These Night Sky's are actually nicknamed the "Nappy Dugouts" and will release Saturday April 16th at Bodega at 11am and online at 12am the night before at bdgastore.com and will go for $135. Let us know what you think below.
As you might remember, about a year ago Nike put out a story of "The Lebrons" a commercial serious using different characters all played by Lebron James himself. Nike decided to put out an animated serious based off these characters. Below we have two episodes, number 1 and 2 and both are quite entertaining, if only they were like a real cartoon and were 30 minute episodes. Check em out below. |
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