Christmas, Easter and the NBA Playoffs have always been a major stage for sneaker companies to reveal new heat to the masses. Typically, these events are the most publicized and televised games of the season, giving footwear outfitters of the best basketball league in the world great opportunities to market their products. Christmas reds & greens, […]
Let’s talk history for a few, shall we? And no, I’m not gonna bore you with the kind of history you almost failed your sophomore year in high school. I mean the kind that you won’t find in your school’s curriculum. A history, which gives this post much more significance and meaning as we steadily […]
For most of the NBA’s history we were used to the players wearing simple white socks. It’s hard to imagine nowadays, but when the Fab Five started wearing black socks in the early 1990s this caused a real uproar. Still, even with the two color choices the on-court sock game has been pretty much low-profile […]
What started a few years back with Nike’s first attempt at constructing a shoe’s upper material entirely from cork has now taken hold and carved out a pretty decent niche for itself in the sneakergame. The guinea pig for this experiment was none other than the LeBron 10 “Cork”, a release that celebrated LeBron James’ first NBA title […]
Update: August 16th, 2018. Due to some difficulties in the past, we have updated our campout rules for strictly limited releases. The goal is to make the process of camping for sneakers as transparent and fair as possible, to cater to true sneakerheads and ultimately, to make our customers happy. Please note that these new […]
To celebrate the 2015 NBA Finals we salute one of the game’s greatest. Finals time is LeBron time. Loved by many. Hated by probably equally as many. That’s what the greatest have to cope with. However, LeBron’s achievements are hard to talk down. 2015 marks his 5th consecutive Finals appearance. Since the 1960s, no player made […]
There’s a new kid on the block when it comes to Social Media: Periscope. Brand-new and still fairly unknown, it is only a matter of time until this app will literally pop up everywhere you see smartphones being used. But what is Periscope? How is it used? And most importantly, how will we – KICKZ – use […]
Last weekend (May 30-31), the 069 Basketball Open took place in Frankfurt/Main. It’s arguably the best and most competitive ProAm basketball tournament in Germany. The reigning champs “Kings of the City Stuttgart” earned a back-to-back title win and also had the MVP Tim Burnette (who works at KICKZ Stuttgart) in their ranks. Many of the players […]
