Sneakers I dig: 2/5/10
I figured I’d give you all one last pair for the weekend. From time to time I highlight a new colorway release of the ever popular, always classic Nike Air Max 1. I love this particular silhouette because there are lots and lots of great color choices, and I simply never get tired of looking at them. Plus they look great with everything. This particular color combo is known as “White/Columbia Blue-Grey.” Normally I stay away from light blue, due to my commitment to Duke University, specifically their basketball team, and more specifically my detest for the UNC basketball program. I acknowledge the silliness of this concept, but if you were from Raleigh, Durham, or Chapel Hill, North Carolina like me or Sam Benjamin, you’d completely understand. This colorway is from Nike’s new Spring lineup, and features some cool and unexpected orange details in the eyelet, tongue label, and air bubble. Available soon at your local Nike retailer.
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Lol! Before I even read a line of your text, I was totally surprised you would put these shoes up. You must be slippin’.
I know I am. I was watching ESPN Classic and they broadcast a Duke-Carolina game from 1988 at the Smith Center. I flabbergasted myself by actually remembering the Duke players fondly, and in some cases preferring them to the UNC guys. Duke had Danny Ferry, who was plain amazing in his junior year, and Robert Brickey, Billy King, Greg Koubek, and Alaa Abdelnaby. And John Smith!! You had to love John Smith. Kryzewski looked like a young rat on the bench, but you had to give him some Polish love.
And then for my team, we had one of my least favorite starting fives, with Scott Williams the whiner, Jeff Lebo (the epitome of a boring, white, 80′s-era intense point guard, good for a thrilling 8 pts, 4 assts a game), Kevin Madden, Steve Bucknall, and J.R. Reid. Out of all of them, only J.R. really had star potential, and weirdly enough, he kind of got worse as he stayed at Carolina, and then totally faded into big-butt oblivion on the Charlotte Hornets. We were way better than we are, uh, right now, but it still wasn’t anything at all like the true glory days of my youth, when MJ, Perkins, and Kenny Smith ruled.
But I *still* wouldn’t wear an Adidas hightop if my life depended on it. So yeah, you’re the bigger man. (Oh, and there was Quin Snyder!!)