The second half of the NBA season begins tonight.<\/p>\n
Over the course of the season so far, we’ve witnessed a number of intriguing story lines in regards to the kicks worn on court<\/a>. We’ve seen Nick Young become the player chosen to debut Kobe Bryant’s highly anticipated new signature shoe, LeBron James sparingly wear his most technologically advanced shoe to date and custom designs\/iDs become just as popular, if not more so, than player exclusives. Oh, and what about Matt Bonner’s change of footwear?<\/p>\n With the awareness of what players wear on court growing almost every day, we formed a new panel of experts in the NBA and sneaker multimedia world \u2013 from NBC Sports, SLAM Magazine and other publications \u2013 to get each expert’s take on scenarios and themes that have been prevalent throughout the first half of the season.<\/p>\n Following the discussion below, be sure to visit the last page to get familiar with some of the experts and learn more about their love for sneakers through each person’s bio.<\/p>\n RELATED<\/strong>: Kicks On Court Diaries: Preseason Panel with NBA Experts\u00a0<\/p>\n\n Brett Pollakoff (@BrettEP<\/a>), NBC Sports’ ProBasketballTalk.com<\/strong>: I think it was Nick Young debuting the Kobe 9s. Not only was the shoe highly anticipated, but the fact that he was allowed to be the first to wear the signature shoe of someone like Kobe Bryant made it a unique and special occurrence. A close second was P.J. Tucker breaking out the Kobe Prelude IVs at Madison Square Garden in a game against the Knicks. I went into the Suns locker room pre-game just to get an up-close look at them in person.<\/p>\n Abe Schwadron (@abe_squad<\/a>), SLAMonline<\/strong>: It might not have come with big headlines, or the retail shock value of a new release, but easily the coolest moment of the first half of the season, for me, was Ray Allen wearing the \u201cHe Got Game\u201d Air Jordan XIIIs with matching \u201cJ. Shuttlesworth\u201d jersey when the Heat played in Brooklyn in January. Sure, Ray is well past his prime, but for any basketball fan who lived through the Jordan era, the release of those particular sneakers (my favorite Jordans of all-time, along with the XIVs) and the release of that film, that was an incredible real-life convergence of pop culture, basketball and sneakers. It was a not-so-subtle wink to that cross-section of us that love basketball AND sneakers, but one that might have gone unnoticed to diehard sneakerheads who don\u2019t understand the basketball significance, or to NBA stat-crunchers who don\u2019t get sneaker culture. Admittedly, I was only nine when He Got Game came out\u2014but trust me, I\u2019ve watched it enough times in my adult life to make up for that fact. Shouts to Rick Fox and Tech U.<\/p>\n Casey Holdahl (@CHold<\/a>), TrailBlazers.com<\/strong>:\u00a0For me, it’s Andre Drummond writing the names of 26 Sandy Hook Elementary shooting victims on a pair of “Old Royal” Jordan 10s. I love sneakers, but sometimes, [focusing] so much [on] shoes makes me feel a bit shallow. Drummond honoring the victims of a horrific event through the canvas sneakers provide is a reminder that it’s not all trivial. And I was at that game at the Palace at Auburn Hills, so this one has a little more sentimental value to me.<\/p>\n George Kiel (@geokthree<\/a>), NiceKicks.com<\/strong>: I’d say it has been a combination of two of the league’s biggest stars, LeBron James and Kobe Bryant, not wearing their signatures shoes. The latter getting his free-spirited teammate Nick Young to debut his highly-anticipated new signature is something we’ve never seen before (though I think it made sense) and LeBron opting to wear a shoe from his secondary line instead of his most technologically advanced and most expensive shoe to date has raised a few eyebrows.<\/p>\n Chris Cason (@C4DUNK<\/a>), Examiner.com<\/strong>:\u00a0Aside from Nick Young’s debut of the Kobe 9, the biggest moment for me has to be LeBron James\u2019 issues with the LeBron XI. You would think the problem would have been solved quicker than it has and he hasn\u2019t been happy about it at all because he loves the shoe. It hasn\u2019t hurt sales of the shoe, but it\u2019s just been odd to see the game\u2019s greatest player not finishing games in his signature shoe. If he switches to the Zoom Soldier VII during the All-Star game, it\u2019s just time to scrap wearing it all together until it gets time for the Elite XI.<\/p>\n Nick DePaula (@_NDP<\/a>), SoleCollector.com<\/strong>:\u00a0The one that is hilarious to me is the fact that Nick “Swaggy P” Young debuted the Kobe 9. Just knowing how much thought and time goes into a signature shoe of that magnitude, and being in LA for the huge unveiling event in December that included Mark Parker, Eric Avar and Kobe to explain the shoe, it makes it that much better. There was a reporter that had a really long question after the game to Nick about how meaningful it was for him to debut the 9, why they picked him and how it felt. All he said was, “It’s just that swag,” which is perfect.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Schwadron<\/strong>: I\u2019ll take Sixers guard Tony Wroten. He\u2019s really burst onto the scene as one of the most sneaker-conscious players in the NBA, and not by accident. He takes sneakers very, very seriously. I spoke to him back in December and I was really struck by how serious he was about his kicks. Wroten told me that he watches other guys around the League, like Nick Young, and enjoys the friendly sneaker competition, but that he considers himself the clear No. 1. He\u2019s already rocked rare Air Jordans like the Raging Bull Vs and the all-red XXIs, not to mention Pippens, Pennys, decade-old Foams and new stuff, too. Plus he\u2019s teamed up with Mache for customs that are out-of-this-world fresh, like the Air Jordan XII \u201cSixers\u201d PE on Opening Night.<\/p>\n Holdahl<\/strong>:\u00a0I’ll go with Kevin Durant. The KD VI is wildly popular among NBA players (I heard a couple guys trying to get Earl Watson to part with the BHM versions of the KD VI before they hit the market) and the level of customization and varied colorways Durant breaks out on a regular basis put it at the top for me. And for me, high-profile guys like Durant get more credit for shaking up their game than players lower on the NBA pecking order. No offense, guys.<\/p>\n Kiel<\/strong>: Tony Wroten was an easy choice for this question after the first two months of the season, but Nick Young has undoubtedly been the most consistent in regards to variety, closet appeal and neoteric colorways. I honestly thought that Young would struggle to maintain the wow factor this season – considering there is not a bunch to choose from to coexist with the Lakers’ color scheme, but once again, Swaggy P has commanded attention on a nightly basis through his kicks on court.<\/p>\n Cason<\/strong>:\u00a0It\u2019s got to be Nick Young, so far. Retro Jordans, Kobe\u2019s, iD\u2019s. He\u2019s gone all out and I believe the best is yet to come when he comes back from his current injury. Being out only gives him more time to select what to wear when he comes back. Derrick Williams was affected by the trade from Minnesota to Sacramento, but I expect him to finish the season strong as well.<\/p>\n DePaula<\/strong>:\u00a0I’m a little biased ’cause I’ve always followed the Kings as a Sacramento native, but it was interesting to see both Rudy Gay and Derrick Williams get traded there early in the season. They’ve both brought out some cool Kobe IVs and Vs, older Hyperdunks, Jordans and some other stuff, and I’ll be keeping an eye on them going forward. Those two and DeMarcus have a bit of a rivalry going now.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pollakoff<\/strong>: I\u2019ll go with the Raptors \u2014 Terrence Ross, DeMar DeRozan and Amir Johnson are always mixing it up nicely. The Nuggets might have been my first choice, but with Nate Robinson out with an injury, that\u2019s a lot of kicks firepower that was ultimately lost.<\/p>\n Schwadron<\/strong>: To me, it comes down to five teams: the Raptors, the Nuggets, the Heat, the Kings and the Suns. The Raps have the advantage of Drake\u2019s OVO hook-up, and Miami starts off almost unfair with LeBron on board. But I\u2019m going with Phoenix simply because of the crazy variety they bring to the court every single night. The Morris Twins break out Jordans and Foamposites nearly every night, with some LeBrons sprinkled in. Meanwhile, Eric Bledsoe was heavy into the new Zoom Soldier before getting hurt, and Goran Dragic reps adidas and Gerald Green always comes correct with something fresh from the Reebok camp\u2014from the Shaq Attaq to the Question (OG or Q96). Not to mention PJ Tucker, one of last season\u2019s breakout sneaker stars, who has continued to pull out crazy NIKEiD looks and retros alike through 2014.<\/p>\n Holdahl<\/strong>:\u00a0I hate helping the rich get richer, but I’d have to say the Miami Heat. The combination of LeBron wearing not only different colorways of the 11s but also old versions of his old signatures, Dwyane Wade wearing whatever the most recent odd colorway Li-Ning has put together and Ray Allen breaking out choice retro Jordan colorways on the regular, I’m forced to go with the crew down in South Beach. I’d put the Denver Nuggets at No. 2, if for no other reason than I’m a sucker for baby blue and yellow colorways. Shout out to Newberg High School.<\/p>\n Kiel<\/strong>: If you want to follow a team that switches the kicks on court up on a nightly basis, look no further than the Denver Nuggets. Quincy Miller has been the surprise of the year so far, Jordan Hamilton has debuted more retros than anyone and the NIKEiD PE program has created some stunning exclusives for Ty Lawson. I still think the Sacramento Kings could surpass them seeing that they have more guns – Rudy Gay, Isaiah Thomas, Derrick Williams, DeMarcus Cousins, Jason Thompson – but the Nuggets are truly a must-watch team even after the season-ending injury of Nate Robinson, a top 5 contender for the Kicks On Court Champion award each season.<\/p>\n Cason<\/strong>:\u00a0As a team, you have to pick between the Raptors, Nuggets and the Kings. I\u2019m going to go with the Nuggets for now, but that changes once this is asked when the season is over and Nate Robinson being done for the year. I think Sacramento finishes as the top team when it\u2019s all said and done.<\/p>\n DePaula<\/strong>:\u00a0I’d probably have to say the Nuggets or Kings. Between Nate, Wilson, Jordan Hamilton, Quincy and the rest of the guys, they always do a nice job of switching things up. Otherwise, the Suns are a fun team to follow too, with guys like PJ Tucker and the Morris Twins bringing good stuff out. Gerald Green has been able to wear all kinds of classic Reebok stuff too. I know a lot of people like following the Raptors, but outside of Amir Johnson in the OVO XIIs, those guys usually just stick to basic classic Jordans and that doesn’t really do it for me anymore.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pollakoff<\/strong>: Strangely enough, I don\u2019t think the impact will end up being that far-reaching in terms of sales or interest from the public. The design is flawless, and the fit is extremely comfortable, though different from the pillowy feel of the Xs. It would be nice to see him wearing some PEs in games like he did recently with the Fairfax edition in Los Angeles, and maybe we\u2019ll get that more in the second half of the season. But other players are wearing them, and as long as they\u2019re seen on court consistently the interest level will remain high because it\u2019s such a great-looking shoe.<\/p>\n Schwadron<\/strong>: We had a lot of discussions in the SLAM offices about what was going on with LeBron\u2019s kicks early in the season, and many of us were curious why people weren\u2019t making a bigger deal about it. But the crazy thing is, I don\u2019t think it had any impact on the 11\u2019s impact in the minds\u2014and more importantly, wallets\u2014of consumers. A lot of kids who walk into a store looking for the new LeBrons aren\u2019t necessarily so in tune with what he wears each and every game (or every half). I remember walking into a Foot Locker in Manhattan in the first month of the season. One of my buddies was considering copping some LeBrons. Anyway, we got to talking with one of the sales dudes there and when I brought up the fact that LeBron hadn\u2019t been wearing these on-court, he was like, \u201cWhat?\u201d Not saying he should have known that, I just think that LeBron\u2019s shoe and logo are going to sell no matter what, and priority No. 1 for him as a basketball player is feeling comfortable, obviously.<\/p>\n Holdahl<\/strong>:\u00a0Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems like there are far more colorway options available for this year’s LeBrons than in previous years, which might be one of the impacts of James not wearing them on court as often as Nike would probably like. As in, if LeBron isn’t wearing them on court, maybe Nike puts out more colorways than they would have otherwise to give people a reason to purchase? That’s just a theory.<\/p>\n Another impact is it probably changes the way Nike approaches their design process with James for the LeBron XII. One would assume they’ll want to take extra care to make sure the next model is better suited to what LeBron needs from an on-court perspective going forward.<\/p>\n Kiel<\/strong>: I don’t think the impact is that significant. Sure, you wonder why he’s not wearing the shoe Nike created for him to wear throughout the season, but from what I’m hearing, it’s not effecting sales and the interest level is still high. Plus, you have a number of players – DeMarcus Cousins, Derrick Williams and Draymond Green – that consistently wear it, enjoy it and bring out some intriguing colorways. Gone are the days in which the athlete wearing his latest shoe is the determining factor for someone buying the shoe in my opinion. It would be nice to see the athlete in the shoe that created exclusively for him, but a striking design, aesthetically, will sell itself.<\/p>\n Cason<\/strong>:\u00a0The impact hasn\u2019t hurt sales. It just shows that, sometimes, any publicity is good publicity. Anytime you have ESPN writing on LeBron\u2019s frustrations with the shoe, it definitely does some good because now there\u2019s even more of a microscope on what he\u2019s wearing, which has to help sales of the Zoom Soldier VII as well. While LeBron hasn\u2019t worn it much this season, others have had the chance to shine in PE versions of the shoe, like DeMarcus Cousins, P.J. Tucker, Terrence Ross, etc.<\/p>\n DePaula<\/strong>:\u00a0I initially thought it would be a HUGE deal, but him not co-signing the shoe hasn’t meant much in terms of sales, and sales are actually up over last year. I guess that just goes to show how amazing of a design it is. I actually got hurt in them the first time I played in a pair and haven’t hooped in 3 months (which is killing me), but I also think the Black\/Red 11 is one of the best shoes I’ve ever seen. People seem to be buying them regardless of whether or not they’re on court, which is definitely a surprise.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pollakoff<\/strong>: I think it was smart. Bryant wouldn\u2019t be able to debut them himself before the initial release date due to his injured status, so it made sense to have a teammate do it instead. Nick Young is known for breaking out unique editions to play in, so he was a perfect choice. It was important to get those on the court before the actual release, so it was a great decision, albeit an unusual one due to the circumstances.<\/p>\n Schwadron<\/strong>: First of all, I want to know what that conversation was like between Kobe and Swaggy P when they decided that Nick would be the first to rock the Kobe 9. Imagine being a fly on the wall for that. Ha! I don\u2019t think, in this case, Nick wearing Kobe\u2019s kicks for the first time has any more negative effect than Kobe\u2019s injury did in the first place. Not unlike with DRose, injuries are a part of the game\u2014basketball and sneakers. Eventually, Kobe will lace up the 9s and that\u2019ll be a big moment. But plenty of guys wear LeBrons, Kobes and KDs and I\u2019m not sure the timing of \u201cwho wore it first\u201d has any deeper an effect (at least in retail) than a personal nod to his teammate. If anything, in the case of the Kobe 9, it just proves how far Nick Young has taken his personal brand just by earning a rep as a sneakerhead\u2014Nick Young\u2019s name is just as well-known to kids as some NBA All-Stars, just off the strength of his shoe obsession. Crazy.<\/p>\n Holdahl<\/strong>:\u00a0I think it definitely takes some of the excitement out of the release, though the Kobe 9s seem to be doing just fine, at least in limited release, from a sales perspective. It’s a delicate balance, as my good friends at adidas could tell you, when it comes to promoting a signature line while said player is injured. You don’t want to disassociate the line from the player, but at the end of the day, that product have to be moved, and actually seeing the sneaker on court is a good way to do that, even if it’s not on the feet of the player whose signature is on the shoe.<\/p>\n Kiel<\/strong>: It’s great depending on who the ‘other’ player is, and in the case of the Kobe 9, I think it was a tremendous move. A considerable amount of people that follow what players wear on court pay attention to Nick Young’s footwear just as much, if not more, than any signature athlete in the NBA. The effect of a wild card like Nick Young debuting Kobe Bryant’s new shoe brought a whole new level of excitement to the Kobe 9 launch.<\/p>\n Cason<\/strong>:\u00a0I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any true effect overall besides guys like us talking about it. For Nike, it\u2019s great to just get the shoe on court until Kobe is ready to return. For Nick Young, it\u2019s a very big deal as he idolizes Kobe and has kind of took on a similar role with the Lakers with Kobe being out most of the season.<\/p>\n DePaula<\/strong>:\u00a0It’s definitely not ideal. With both Kobe and D Rose going down, we’ve seen Nick Young debut the 9 and Jeff Teague debut the Rose 4.5. I’ve gotta go all the way back to when Daniel Ewing was the first to break out the Air Jordan XX1 to find a less ideal on-court unveiling for shoes that mean so much to both categories.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Pollakoff<\/strong>: Players have limitless options with sneakers, both due to their income levels as well as their status as professionals in the NBA spotlight. It\u2019s a natural evolution given the ability they have to get essentially whatever they want in terms of style and color, and we can expect this trend to only become more popular over time.<\/p>\n Schwadron<\/strong>: I love it. I think it\u2019s a great way for players to continue to express their creativity on the court. The \u201clook good, play good\u201d philosophy seems to be more true in 2014 than ever, and with more NIKEiD options available to players and more custom designers doing great work linking with athletes, we\u2019re seeing more and more originality, which is great. Guys are looking around the League and noticing what everyone else is wearing, and trying to one-up each other. It\u2019s fun to watch.<\/p>\n Holdahl<\/strong>:\u00a0I love it. It’s a great way for players who will never rise to the level of having their own signature express their personal style. We have a couple guys on the team, like Mo Williams, Thomas Robinson and Meyers Leonard who utilize NIKEiD for their in-game shoes on a regular basis.<\/p>\n But NIKEiD doesn’t come close to touching the customization my dude Robin Lopez breaks out every now and then. Lopez takes it back to those high school days in which you’d draw on your sneakers as a way to pass the time in class with the adidas Crazy 1 “Midas Heirs aka Fists of Midas” he wore in a game against the Warriors and the black and white adidas Crazy Ghost he customized for the home opener. Two of the coolest sneakers worn on court this season. Even with PEs, you’re still somewhat at the mercy of the facilitator, aka the designer employed by Nike\/adidas\/Under Armour, ect. But Robin is bypassing that whole process and putting whatever he damn well pleases on his sneakers. Of course, he has more artistic talent than most of his contemporaries, so while I’d love to see more players do this, maybe it’s best left to guys who have the background in illustration that RoLo does.<\/p>\n Kiel<\/strong>:\u00a0I think it’s a great way for players to express themselves, especially those that don’t get the unlimited amount of exclusives that other players obtain. With customs, a player can wear that 1-of-1 design and know that no one else in the NBA will be able to play in that shoe, which is an intriguing factor to some.<\/p>\n Cason<\/strong>:\u00a0I think it\u2019s great for players and the fans. For the players, they get to express themselves a bit more on the court and it gives the fans some insight into that particular player\u2019s style and interests. I think it\u2019s just going to continue to grow because we\u2019re seeing more and more players electing to iD or have their shoes customized just to separate themselves from the field.<\/p>\n DePaula<\/strong>:\u00a0I think it’s awesome. For a lot of guys, they might not ever have a shot at getting their own signature shoe or even PEs, but they can still find ways to keep things exciting on the court and show some of their personality. Shoes in general are getting more and more loud, and it’s also been great to see what some guys have been coming up with on iD. You’ve got guys like Tony Allen that keep it super basic, and then a guy like Ben McLemore who goes for a bolder look with his miadidas Rose 4s. With NIKEiD, guys like DeMar DeRozan and Wilson Chandler can stick to the models they like most but still put their own spin on things. When it comes to customs, I’m still big on the shoe looking clean. I don’t like when guys add team logos or graphics, but simple color flips can be cool.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pollakoff<\/strong>: It has to be Matt Bonner spurning New Balance and signing with adidas! While the adidas line is far better looking and superior performance-wise, there was something innocent about Bonner\u2019s affinity for a shoe that isn\u2019t exactly revered as a high-performance model for NBA players. If you want a more serious answer, it\u2019s probably LeBron not wearing the 11s all that much, mainly because we\u2019ve been deprived of so many cool PEs to this point in the season.<\/p>\n Schwadron<\/strong>: Through no fault of their own, I\u2019d say Paul George and James Harden. Both those dudes are such great young stars in the League, and they deserve better from Nike! Okay, so signature sneakers that aren\u2019t Kobe, KD or LeBron don\u2019t sell, but it still feels like a waste of talent and sneaker visibility not to be doing more creative things with two of the NBA\u2019s Top 5 or 6 players. Why not lace PG and the Beard in some crazy PEs or exclusive retros and really get people talking about them? It just feels like a missed opportunity in that space just below LeBron and Kobe. Imagine if Harden showed up one day wearing the Nike Air Jet Flight or George surprised us by rocking some old-school Shox\u2014people would go crazy, even if Nike never planned on releasing them for public consumption.<\/p>\n Holdahl<\/strong>:\u00a0Got to be Matt Bonner ditching his New Balance, doesn’t it? Again, much love to the folks at adidas and I like his Crazy 8 colorway a great deal, but Bonner’s dad sneakers fit his everyman persona so well that any change was going to be a disappointment unless he started wearing Tevas with socks on court. I mean, get your paper Matt, but now you’re just another face in the crowd.<\/p>\n Kiel<\/strong>: What’s been more disappointing than any one player is the non-stop injuries that keep piling up. Some of the players we often check out in regards to footwear, including Russell Westbrook, Nate Robinson, Kobe Bryant, Derrick Rose and Chris Paul, have only played a small number of games this year, which directly effects what we see on court. Sure, Derrick Williams and J.R. Smith have toned their variety down from last season, but the NBA and the Kicks On Court Champion race would be in a better place sans the injuries.<\/p>\n Cason<\/strong>:\u00a0For me, it\u2019s been Paul George. His play is elevating him towards being in consideration for a signature shoe as he\u2019s one of the best two-way All-Stars in the league. He\u2019s a huge Penny guy and there\u2019s just so much opportunity there that\u2019s being missed, but Indiana is on a mission this season, so I can excuse him for just sticking with his PE\u2019s.<\/p>\n DePaula<\/strong>:\u00a0That’s a tough one, ’cause I think the whole league has taken a step back from what we saw last season. With Nate being in Chicago and Derrick Williams being a true sneaker free agent last year, there were just a lot more surprises on a nightly basis. Nate unfortunately got hurt for the year, but hopefully he’ll be able to bounce back strong. A guy that’s been a bit of a disappointment to me so far would be Iman Shumpert. I really liked seeing him constantly switching things up and wearing all kinds of cool adidas, because that made things really unique when obviously most other guys we follow are wearing Nikes and Jordans. He’s been having a tough year but hopefully gets back to having fun out there.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pollakoff<\/strong>: LeBron not wearing his signature kicks for most of the year has to be right up there. It\u2019s flown a bit under the radar for reasons discussed above, but the best player in the game not wearing his new signature shoe for much of the season has been a fascinating storyline to watch.<\/p>\n Schwadron<\/strong>: Matt Bonner! No, seriously, Matt Bonner! I don\u2019t know whether to be elated on his behalf that he\u2019s signed a deal with adidas, or totally bummed out by the fact that we won\u2019t ever get to see what might have happened when he got down to that last pair of discontinued New Balance joints. And why hasn\u2019t adidas given the Red Rocket\u2014er, Red Mamba\u2014a totally ridiculous PE yet?<\/p>\n Holdahl<\/strong>:\u00a0I guess it’s not entirely surprising given the brand has had a hell of a time making inroads outside of retros, but the inability of Jordan Brand to make any real progress among NBA players despite turning out a few great models and having a legit stable of names under their umbrella always stuns me. By all accounts, the Jordan XX8 is a great shoe to hoop in, but you rarely see them being worn by any player not being directly payed by JB.<\/p>\n Second place goes to Steph Curry leaving Nike for Under Armour, though players leaving the Nike and adidas’s of the world for lesser known brands has been on the uptick recently as well.<\/p>\n Kiel<\/strong>:\u00a0Matt Bonner. I just thought he would wear New Balances until they gave out and naturally switch to playing barefoot afterwards.<\/p>\n Cason<\/strong>:\u00a0I\u2019ll go with surprise and disappointment and say the injuries this season. Derrick Rose, Chris Paul, Nate Robinson, Dwyane Wade, Kobe. Injuries are always a part of the game, but so many big names have lost time this season because of injuries that it\u2019s affected some really good kicks from being on display, in some cases signature kicks by the athletes they\u2019re intended for like Kobe and D. Rose.<\/p>\n DePaula<\/strong>:\u00a0It’s been cool to see all of the Under Armour PEs that Stephen Curry has been wearing, and I’m always closely following all of the players and their shoe deals. With next summer being a huge sneaker free agent class, I’ve been keeping an eye on Stephen now that he’s switched over, and also Paul George, who will be a free agent this summer. On that note, a big surprise was adidas signing both Jeremy Lin and Matt Bonner. They obviously have different levels of impact for much different reasons, but it was cool to see both of those guys have fun with how they announced their new deals. Two things that really stick out and will definitely be looked back on a few years from now are just the fact that LeBron only rarely wore his 11th model, and that Kobe missed huge, huge chunks of the season. Of all the years to do a Prelude Pack, it was just tough luck for Nike this fall, as they were definitely expecting him to be out there for more than 6 games. Another big surprise is that things have been pretty quiet with Jordan Brand. I liked the Christmas Day XX8 SEs and that’s an amazing shoe to play in, but there hasn’t really been much else that caught my attention.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Schwadron<\/strong>:\u00a0Outside of the more obvious selections, some names that come to mind include Terrence Ross, DeMarcus Cousins and the Morris Twins. But if you\u2019re looking for a real dark-horse candidate? Give me Quincy Miller of the Denver Nuggets. He\u2019s still finding his footing as a player, only playing a handful of minutes per game in his second season, but he\u2019s quietly one of the L\u2019s best when it comes to kicks. He mixes in new stuff, like the HyperRev or Flightposites, with retros like Jordan IIs, IIIs, Xs, XIs, and the Melo 1.5s in Nuggets colors. I think as he continues to improve as a player, he\u2019ll start to get even more shine as a sneaker freak.<\/p>\n Holdahl<\/strong>:\u00a0I’ll do for my fellow Portlander and say Terrence Ross. He switches between Kobe VIIIs, LeBron XIs and various retro Jordans on a game-to-game basis and he gets extra points from me for wearing the Doernbecher 10s, which have an added significance to those of in Rip City where the children’s hospital is located. There’s a balance between staying fresh and trying too hard, and I think T.Ross straddles that line well.<\/p>\n Kiel<\/strong>: Quincy Miller is on pace to really contend for the Champion award at the end of the season. He switches it up constantly and has brought out some shoes we rarely see in the NBA, such as the “Silver Anniversary” Air Jordan 2 and the “CDP” Air Jordan XX. All we need is for Coach Shaw to give him some more playing time.<\/p>\n Cason<\/strong>:\u00a0Watch out for Matt Bonner in San Antonio, now that he\u2019s signed with adidas. I\u2019m expecting big things between the three stripes and the Red Mamba. I\u2019m actually going to go with DeMarcus Cousins for my dark-house candidate as big men don\u2019t get much love and I can only think of Andre Drummond as the only other big who adds some variety in what they wear. It also goes without saying that finding some of the kicks Demarcus does in such a big size is work in itself.<\/p>\n DePaula<\/strong>:\u00a0The guy that needs to get more love is Isaiah Thomas. He’s got some sleeper PEs of both Kamikazes that are amazing! Otherwise I might have to go with PJ Tucker, Draymond Green or Tony Wroten. They all have a nice rotation so far this season, and I think Draymond does an amazing job with the colorblocks on his Nike iDs. He might have a future as a Product Line Manager when he’s done hoopin’.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Twitter<\/strong>: @abe_squad<\/a>\/Instagram<\/strong>: abe_squad<\/a><\/p>\n I\u2019m the sneaker editor at SLAM Magazine, officially under the title of Assistant Editor\/KICKS, and when I\u2019m not handling kicks coverage for SLAMonline, you can find me chasing down NBA feature stories for the mag each month. I also made major writing and research contributions to the forthcoming book \u201cSLAM KICKS Presents: Basketball Sneakers that Changed the Game\u201d (coming in March!), have covered the Nets on a freelance basis for NBA.com on occasion and run SLAM\u2019s new football site, TDdaily.com on an everyday basis. I grew up on the Maryland side of the DMV, and my parents somehow knew to keep me laced in Jordans and Iversons in my formative years despite never being anywhere near as big into hoops as I was. I played a little JV ball in high school before studying journalism at Northwestern University, where I once scored 30 points in an intramural game against the Jewish fraternity\u2019s B-team. I wound up at SLAM after interning at SI.com and ESPN Radio, and then relentlessly pestering the staff at SLAM until they said \u201cFine, you can intern if you stop e-mailing us\u201d in the fall of 2011, which eventually led to a full-time gig. In the past calendar year, I played both basketball and flag football against Kevin Durant. In the next calendar year, I want to add a pair of Reebok Answer Vs to my sneaker collection.<\/p>\n Twitter<\/strong>:\u00a0@geokthree<\/a>\/Instagram<\/strong>:\u00a0geokthree<\/a><\/p>\n I\u2019m the associate editor at NiceKicks.com. Since 2008, I\u2019ve had my hands in pretty much everything here, including day-to-day staff writing, conducting interviews, editing, representing the company at media events and many other things. I\u2019m in charge of our Kicks On Court column and have expanded it to our 2-year-old Kicks On Court Weekly Recap show. I\u2019m also the host of our Sneak Peek series, where we visit the homes of various celebrities, athletes and sneaker enthusiasts to get an in-depth look inside their\u00a0sneaker closets\/collections.\u00a0I studied Mass Communications\/Print Journalism in college at Texas State University, where I also played on the basketball team and wrote for the Sports section of the school newspaper \u2013 University Star \u2013 simultaneously. As for sneakers, they have always been a by-product of my love for basketball. I have been playing basketball since the age of five and have always paid attention to what people wore on the court. Some of my all-time favorites on-court shoes include the Nike Air Zoom T-Bug Flight, the Nike Zoom Flight Turbine, the Nike Zoom Kobe V, the adidas Pro Model, the Air Jordan 11 and the Nike Hyperflight. All of those shoes have graced my feet at some point during my basketball career from middle school to college. I also have a weird thing for grey shoes. 75% of my shoe collection is colored in grey.<\/p>\n Twitter<\/strong>: @CHold<\/a>\/Instagram<\/strong>: caseyholdahl<\/a><\/p>\n Casey Holdahl here and I’m the in-house beat reporter for the Portland Trail Blazers. This is my seventh season with the team, though this is the first year that I’m covering the team exclusively for all 82 games at both Trailblazers.com<\/a>\u00a0and ForwardCenter.net<\/a>. I’m at every practice, every shootaround and every game, both home and away, filling the reporting space in between what you would get from an old fashioned newspaper beat reporter and your typical rah-rah NBA team site.<\/p>\n As for how I got here, I started out founding one of the first Trail Blazers blogs, which eventually became Blazersedge.com<\/a>. No one actually got paid to blog back then, so I turned over the site to Dave, who does wonderful job of running it now, for a job at OregonLive.com<\/a>, which is the online home for The Oregonian newspaper. I got bumped up to their Blazers Blog duty after the guy who was writing it, my dude Eric Marentette, left OregonLive to work for Kobe Bryant’s now mostly defunct creative agency, Zambezi Ink. I did that for about two years before joining the Trail Blazers as a web content manager. I’ve been doing some form of content creation, be it written, video, or social, for the team ever since.<\/p>\n But I’ve also been focusing a part of my reporting on what players are wearing on court. Seeing as how the Nike World Headquarters and adidas North American Headquarters are located my backyard, I figured the interest was there to take a team-specific approach to the shoe game. I’ve been doing that for the past three seasons, and I’d like to think I’m ever-so-slightly responsible for more teams realizing there’s great interest among the public in NBA fashion.<\/p>\n My favorite shoe really varies on a month-to-month basis. My first love has to be the Jordan 5. We didn’t have much money when I was a kid, and growing up in the Oregon wine country when it was still rural, the idea of spending money on sneakers was a complete non-starter. But my parents had a friend who was a secretary at Nike back in the early 90s, and one day they came back from a party at her house with a pair of comp original 5s that she had in her closet. They were a size too big, but I couldn’t have loved them more. I remember going to one of those events put on by the local park & rec department your parents dropped you off at in the summertime to keep you from accidentally burning their house down in those 5s and feeling like a complete badass, which, for a pale, bucktooth, unathletic kid from the lowlands, was a rarity. Rarely a day goes by when I don’t kick myself for not holding on to those.<\/p>\n My favorite pair right now would probably be the NikeiD Pendleton Roshes my wife bought me for Christmas. Made with wool sheered from sheep here in Oregon and with iconic Pendleton design on a contemporary shoe like the Roshe, it all just comes together for me. But ask me again in a month and I’d probably tell you a that the adidas ZX700 is my favorite. Been wearing those a lot lately. And if anyone at Nike would hook me up with any of the Oregon Jordans (Allen School of Journalism and Communications, Class of 2003!) they would instantly become my favorite pair. Just throwing that out there. Get at me Tinker.<\/p>\n Twitter<\/strong>:\u00a0@C4DUNK<\/a>\/Instagram<\/strong>:\u00a0c4dunk<\/a><\/p>\n I\u2019ve been covering the Chicago Bulls for the Examiner.com for five years now. I report news, game recaps and other stories pertaining to the team. I also write for HOOP magazine and Sneaker Freaker magazine and have contributed to SLAM, Sole Collector, Counterkicks and Modern Notoriety. My start in covering the NBA came from my mentor\/brother Anthony Gilbert, who introduced me to my first writing gig at a site called MVN.com. From there, the Examiner.com started in 2008 and I was contacted about coming aboard. The only way I was leaving MVN was if the Examiner would fight for me to be credentialed. They did, I\u2019m there, and while the Examiner doesn\u2019t help pay the bills, the access it gives me to the opportunities to work with others to tell stories \u2013 and help pay the bills \u2013 is priceless. There\u2019s also the blessing of being able to cover a franchise that I grew up watching. I walk past the Jordan statue before each home game and make sure to step on the hardwood every game I work because it\u2019s definitely a dream come true and something I don\u2019t take for granted. My favorite shoe today remains the Air Jordan V. I still remember seeing my uncle in the original Black\/Silver pair back in \u201991. The flash of the 3M on the tongue instantly caught my eye and changed my mindset on the shoes I wanted to wear going forward, even though my mom wouldn\u2019t get me my first pair of Jordan\u2019s until I was 12 and it was the AJ XIII\u2019s. A lot of my favorite models are from the 90\u2019s because of the design stories behind them and the things that were done in them. The Royal Blue Foamposite, the Nike Air Zoom GP, Nike Hyperflights, Adidas Pro Model, Air Force 180, Air More Uptempo, Air Max Penny 1, Reebok Question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The second half of the NBA season begins tonight. Over the course of the season so far, we’ve witnessed a number of intriguing story lines in regards to the kicks worn on court. We’ve seen Nick Young become the player chosen to debut Kobe Bryant’s highly anticipated new signature shoe, LeBron James sparingly wear his most technologically advanced shoe to date and custom designs\/iDs become just as popular, if not more so, than player exclusives. Oh, and what about Matt Bonner’s change of footwear?<\/p>\n With the awareness of what players wear on court growing almost every day, we formed a new panel of experts in the NBA and sneaker multimedia world \u2013 from NBC Sports, SLAM Magazine and other publications \u2013 to get each expert’s take on scenarios and themes that have been prevalent throughout the first half of the season.<\/p>\n Following the discussion below, be sure to visit the last page to get familiar with some of the experts and learn more about their love for sneakers through each person’s bio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":364597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[835],"tags":[1225551],"cultivate_rss":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n1. What has been the biggest moment during the first half of the season when it comes to kicks being worn on court?<\/h2>\n
2. Which player, so far, has made the biggest impact with variety, fresh colorways and new sneaker debuts this season?<\/h2>\n
3. Which team, as a whole, has worn the best kicks on court so far this season?<\/h2>\n
4. What do you think is the impact of LeBron James not wearing his signature Nike LeBron 11?<\/h2>\n
5. What is the effect of another player debuting an active signature player’s shoe (think Nick Young debuting the Kobe 9)?<\/h2>\n
6. What are your thoughts on NIKEiDs and custom sneakers being more frequent on-court favorites this season?<\/h2>\n
7. Who has been the most disappointing player in terms of kicks on court this season?<\/h2>\n
8. What has been the surprise storyline of the first half of the season concerning kicks on court?<\/h2>\n
9. Who do you think is the top dark horse candidate to win the 2014 Kicks On Court Champion award this season?<\/h2>\n
Meet Members of the Roundtable<\/h2>\n
Abe Schwadron \u2013 Sneaker Editor at SLAM Magazine<\/h3>\n
George Kiel \u2013 Associate Editor at NiceKicks.com<\/h3>\n
Casey Holdahl \u2013 Portland Trail Blazers In-House Beat Reporter<\/h3>\n
Christopher Cason \u2013 Writer for Examiner.com<\/h3>\n
![<\/a><\/p>\nPollakoff<\/strong>: Players have limitless options with sneakers, both due to their income levels as well as their status as professionals in the NBA spotlight. It\u2019s a natural evolution given the ability they have to get essentially whatever they want in terms of style and color, and we can expect this trend to only become more popular over time.<\/p>\nSchwadron<\/strong>: I love it. I think it\u2019s a great way for players to continue to express their creativity on the court. The \u201clook good, play good\u201d philosophy seems to be more true in 2014 than ever, and with more NIKEiD options available to players and more custom designers doing great work linking with athletes, we\u2019re seeing more and more originality, which is great. Guys are looking around the League and noticing what everyone else is wearing, and trying to one-up each other. It\u2019s fun to watch.<\/p>\nHoldahl<\/strong>:\u00a0I love it. It’s a great way for players who will never rise to the level of having their own signature express their personal style. We have a couple guys on the team, like Mo Williams, Thomas Robinson and Meyers Leonard who utilize NIKEiD for their in-game shoes on a regular basis.<\/p>\nBut NIKEiD doesn’t come close to touching the customization my dude Robin Lopez breaks out every now and then. Lopez takes it back to those high school days in which you’d draw on your sneakers as a way to pass the time in class with the adidas Crazy 1 “Midas Heirs aka Fists of Midas” he wore in a game against the Warriors and the black and white adidas Crazy Ghost he customized for the home opener. Two of the coolest sneakers worn on court this season. Even with PEs, you’re still somewhat at the mercy of the facilitator, aka the designer employed by Nike\/adidas\/Under Armour, ect. But Robin is bypassing that whole process and putting whatever he damn well pleases on his sneakers. Of course, he has more artistic talent than most of his contemporaries, so while I’d love to see more players do this, maybe it’s best left to guys who have the background in illustration that RoLo does.<\/p>\nKiel<\/strong>:\u00a0I think it’s a great way for players to express themselves, especially those that don’t get the unlimited amount of exclusives that other players obtain. With customs, a player can wear that 1-of-1 design and know that no one else in the NBA will be able to play in that shoe, which is an intriguing factor to some.<\/p>\nCason<\/strong>:\u00a0I think it\u2019s great for players and the fans. For the players, they get to express themselves a bit more on the court and it gives the fans some insight into that particular player\u2019s style and interests. I think it\u2019s just going to continue to grow because we\u2019re seeing more and more players electing to iD or have their shoes customized just to separate themselves from the field.<\/p>\nDePaula<\/strong>:\u00a0I think it’s awesome. For a lot of guys, they might not ever have a shot at getting their own signature shoe or even PEs, but they can still find ways to keep things exciting on the court and show some of their personality. Shoes in general are getting more and more loud, and it’s also been great to see what some guys have been coming up with on iD. You’ve got guys like Tony Allen that keep it super basic, and then a guy like Ben McLemore who goes for a bolder look with his miadidas Rose 4s. With NIKEiD, guys like DeMar DeRozan and Wilson Chandler can stick to the models they like most but still put their own spin on things. When it comes to customs, I’m still big on the shoe looking clean. I don’t like when guys add team logos or graphics, but simple color flips can be cool.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n7. Who has been the most disappointing player in terms of kicks on court this season?<\/h2>\nPollakoff<\/strong>: It has to be Matt Bonner spurning New Balance and signing with adidas! While the adidas line is far better looking and superior performance-wise, there was something innocent about Bonner\u2019s affinity for a shoe that isn\u2019t exactly revered as a high-performance model for NBA players. If you want a more serious answer, it\u2019s probably LeBron not wearing the 11s all that much, mainly because we\u2019ve been deprived of so many cool PEs to this point in the season.<\/p>\nSchwadron<\/strong>: Through no fault of their own, I\u2019d say Paul George and James Harden. Both those dudes are such great young stars in the League, and they deserve better from Nike! Okay, so signature sneakers that aren\u2019t Kobe, KD or LeBron don\u2019t sell, but it still feels like a waste of talent and sneaker visibility not to be doing more creative things with two of the NBA\u2019s Top 5 or 6 players. Why not lace PG and the Beard in some crazy PEs or exclusive retros and really get people talking about them? It just feels like a missed opportunity in that space just below LeBron and Kobe. Imagine if Harden showed up one day wearing the Nike Air Jet Flight or George surprised us by rocking some old-school Shox\u2014people would go crazy, even if Nike never planned on releasing them for public consumption.<\/p>\nHoldahl<\/strong>:\u00a0Got to be Matt Bonner ditching his New Balance, doesn’t it? Again, much love to the folks at adidas and I like his Crazy 8 colorway a great deal, but Bonner’s dad sneakers fit his everyman persona so well that any change was going to be a disappointment unless he started wearing Tevas with socks on court. I mean, get your paper Matt, but now you’re just another face in the crowd.<\/p>\nKiel<\/strong>: What’s been more disappointing than any one player is the non-stop injuries that keep piling up. Some of the players we often check out in regards to footwear, including Russell Westbrook, Nate Robinson, Kobe Bryant, Derrick Rose and Chris Paul, have only played a small number of games this year, which directly effects what we see on court. Sure, Derrick Williams and J.R. Smith have toned their variety down from last season, but the NBA and the Kicks On Court Champion race would be in a better place sans the injuries.<\/p>\nCason<\/strong>:\u00a0For me, it\u2019s been Paul George. His play is elevating him towards being in consideration for a signature shoe as he\u2019s one of the best two-way All-Stars in the league. He\u2019s a huge Penny guy and there\u2019s just so much opportunity there that\u2019s being missed, but Indiana is on a mission this season, so I can excuse him for just sticking with his PE\u2019s.<\/p>\nDePaula<\/strong>:\u00a0That’s a tough one, ’cause I think the whole league has taken a step back from what we saw last season. With Nate being in Chicago and Derrick Williams being a true sneaker free agent last year, there were just a lot more surprises on a nightly basis. Nate unfortunately got hurt for the year, but hopefully he’ll be able to bounce back strong. A guy that’s been a bit of a disappointment to me so far would be Iman Shumpert. I really liked seeing him constantly switching things up and wearing all kinds of cool adidas, because that made things really unique when obviously most other guys we follow are wearing Nikes and Jordans. He’s been having a tough year but hopefully gets back to having fun out there.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n8. What has been the surprise storyline of the first half of the season concerning kicks on court?<\/h2>\nPollakoff<\/strong>: LeBron not wearing his signature kicks for most of the year has to be right up there. It\u2019s flown a bit under the radar for reasons discussed above, but the best player in the game not wearing his new signature shoe for much of the season has been a fascinating storyline to watch.<\/p>\nSchwadron<\/strong>: Matt Bonner! No, seriously, Matt Bonner! I don\u2019t know whether to be elated on his behalf that he\u2019s signed a deal with adidas, or totally bummed out by the fact that we won\u2019t ever get to see what might have happened when he got down to that last pair of discontinued New Balance joints. And why hasn\u2019t adidas given the Red Rocket\u2014er, Red Mamba\u2014a totally ridiculous PE yet?<\/p>\nHoldahl<\/strong>:\u00a0I guess it’s not entirely surprising given the brand has had a hell of a time making inroads outside of retros, but the inability of Jordan Brand to make any real progress among NBA players despite turning out a few great models and having a legit stable of names under their umbrella always stuns me. By all accounts, the Jordan XX8 is a great shoe to hoop in, but you rarely see them being worn by any player not being directly payed by JB.<\/p>\nSecond place goes to Steph Curry leaving Nike for Under Armour, though players leaving the Nike and adidas’s of the world for lesser known brands has been on the uptick recently as well.<\/p>\nKiel<\/strong>:\u00a0Matt Bonner. I just thought he would wear New Balances until they gave out and naturally switch to playing barefoot afterwards.<\/p>\nCason<\/strong>:\u00a0I\u2019ll go with surprise and disappointment and say the injuries this season. Derrick Rose, Chris Paul, Nate Robinson, Dwyane Wade, Kobe. Injuries are always a part of the game, but so many big names have lost time this season because of injuries that it\u2019s affected some really good kicks from being on display, in some cases signature kicks by the athletes they\u2019re intended for like Kobe and D. Rose.<\/p>\nDePaula<\/strong>:\u00a0It’s been cool to see all of the Under Armour PEs that Stephen Curry has been wearing, and I’m always closely following all of the players and their shoe deals. With next summer being a huge sneaker free agent class, I’ve been keeping an eye on Stephen now that he’s switched over, and also Paul George, who will be a free agent this summer. On that note, a big surprise was adidas signing both Jeremy Lin and Matt Bonner. They obviously have different levels of impact for much different reasons, but it was cool to see both of those guys have fun with how they announced their new deals. Two things that really stick out and will definitely be looked back on a few years from now are just the fact that LeBron only rarely wore his 11th model, and that Kobe missed huge, huge chunks of the season. Of all the years to do a Prelude Pack, it was just tough luck for Nike this fall, as they were definitely expecting him to be out there for more than 6 games. Another big surprise is that things have been pretty quiet with Jordan Brand. I liked the Christmas Day XX8 SEs and that’s an amazing shoe to play in, but there hasn’t really been much else that caught my attention.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n9. Who do you think is the top dark horse candidate to win the 2014 Kicks On Court Champion award this season?<\/h2>\n<\/a><\/p>\nSchwadron<\/strong>:\u00a0Outside of the more obvious selections, some names that come to mind include Terrence Ross, DeMarcus Cousins and the Morris Twins. But if you\u2019re looking for a real dark-horse candidate? Give me Quincy Miller of the Denver Nuggets. He\u2019s still finding his footing as a player, only playing a handful of minutes per game in his second season, but he\u2019s quietly one of the L\u2019s best when it comes to kicks. He mixes in new stuff, like the HyperRev or Flightposites, with retros like Jordan IIs, IIIs, Xs, XIs, and the Melo 1.5s in Nuggets colors. I think as he continues to improve as a player, he\u2019ll start to get even more shine as a sneaker freak.<\/p>\nHoldahl<\/strong>:\u00a0I’ll do for my fellow Portlander and say Terrence Ross. He switches between Kobe VIIIs, LeBron XIs and various retro Jordans on a game-to-game basis and he gets extra points from me for wearing the Doernbecher 10s, which have an added significance to those of in Rip City where the children’s hospital is located. There’s a balance between staying fresh and trying too hard, and I think T.Ross straddles that line well.<\/p>\nKiel<\/strong>: Quincy Miller is on pace to really contend for the Champion award at the end of the season. He switches it up constantly and has brought out some shoes we rarely see in the NBA, such as the “Silver Anniversary” Air Jordan 2 and the “CDP” Air Jordan XX. All we need is for Coach Shaw to give him some more playing time.<\/p>\nCason<\/strong>:\u00a0Watch out for Matt Bonner in San Antonio, now that he\u2019s signed with adidas. I\u2019m expecting big things between the three stripes and the Red Mamba. I\u2019m actually going to go with DeMarcus Cousins for my dark-house candidate as big men don\u2019t get much love and I can only think of Andre Drummond as the only other big who adds some variety in what they wear. It also goes without saying that finding some of the kicks Demarcus does in such a big size is work in itself.<\/p>\nDePaula<\/strong>:\u00a0The guy that needs to get more love is Isaiah Thomas. He’s got some sleeper PEs of both Kamikazes that are amazing! Otherwise I might have to go with PJ Tucker, Draymond Green or Tony Wroten. They all have a nice rotation so far this season, and I think Draymond does an amazing job with the colorblocks on his Nike iDs. He might have a future as a Product Line Manager when he’s done hoopin’.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nMeet Members of the Roundtable<\/h2>\nAbe Schwadron \u2013 Sneaker Editor at SLAM Magazine<\/h3>\nTwitter<\/strong>: @abe_squad<\/a>\/Instagram<\/strong>: abe_squad<\/a><\/p>\nI\u2019m the sneaker editor at SLAM Magazine, officially under the title of Assistant Editor\/KICKS, and when I\u2019m not handling kicks coverage for SLAMonline, you can find me chasing down NBA feature stories for the mag each month. I also made major writing and research contributions to the forthcoming book \u201cSLAM KICKS Presents: Basketball Sneakers that Changed the Game\u201d (coming in March!), have covered the Nets on a freelance basis for NBA.com on occasion and run SLAM\u2019s new football site, TDdaily.com on an everyday basis. I grew up on the Maryland side of the DMV, and my parents somehow knew to keep me laced in Jordans and Iversons in my formative years despite never being anywhere near as big into hoops as I was. I played a little JV ball in high school before studying journalism at Northwestern University, where I once scored 30 points in an intramural game against the Jewish fraternity\u2019s B-team. I wound up at SLAM after interning at SI.com and ESPN Radio, and then relentlessly pestering the staff at SLAM until they said \u201cFine, you can intern if you stop e-mailing us\u201d in the fall of 2011, which eventually led to a full-time gig. In the past calendar year, I played both basketball and flag football against Kevin Durant. In the next calendar year, I want to add a pair of Reebok Answer Vs to my sneaker collection.<\/p>\nGeorge Kiel \u2013 Associate Editor at NiceKicks.com<\/h3>\nTwitter<\/strong>:\u00a0@geokthree<\/a>\/Instagram<\/strong>:\u00a0geokthree<\/a><\/p>\nI\u2019m the associate editor at NiceKicks.com. Since 2008, I\u2019ve had my hands in pretty much everything here, including day-to-day staff writing, conducting interviews, editing, representing the company at media events and many other things. I\u2019m in charge of our Kicks On Court column and have expanded it to our 2-year-old Kicks On Court Weekly Recap show. I\u2019m also the host of our Sneak Peek series, where we visit the homes of various celebrities, athletes and sneaker enthusiasts to get an in-depth look inside their\u00a0sneaker closets\/collections.\u00a0I studied Mass Communications\/Print Journalism in college at Texas State University, where I also played on the basketball team and wrote for the Sports section of the school newspaper \u2013 University Star \u2013 simultaneously. As for sneakers, they have always been a by-product of my love for basketball. I have been playing basketball since the age of five and have always paid attention to what people wore on the court. Some of my all-time favorites on-court shoes include the Nike Air Zoom T-Bug Flight, the Nike Zoom Flight Turbine, the Nike Zoom Kobe V, the adidas Pro Model, the Air Jordan 11 and the Nike Hyperflight. All of those shoes have graced my feet at some point during my basketball career from middle school to college. I also have a weird thing for grey shoes. 75% of my shoe collection is colored in grey.<\/p>\nCasey Holdahl \u2013 Portland Trail Blazers In-House Beat Reporter<\/h3>\nTwitter<\/strong>: @CHold<\/a>\/Instagram<\/strong>: caseyholdahl<\/a><\/p>\nCasey Holdahl here and I’m the in-house beat reporter for the Portland Trail Blazers. This is my seventh season with the team, though this is the first year that I’m covering the team exclusively for all 82 games at both Trailblazers.com<\/a>\u00a0and ForwardCenter.net<\/a>. I’m at every practice, every shootaround and every game, both home and away, filling the reporting space in between what you would get from an old fashioned newspaper beat reporter and your typical rah-rah NBA team site.<\/p>\nAs for how I got here, I started out founding one of the first Trail Blazers blogs, which eventually became Blazersedge.com<\/a>. No one actually got paid to blog back then, so I turned over the site to Dave, who does wonderful job of running it now, for a job at OregonLive.com<\/a>, which is the online home for The Oregonian newspaper. I got bumped up to their Blazers Blog duty after the guy who was writing it, my dude Eric Marentette, left OregonLive to work for Kobe Bryant’s now mostly defunct creative agency, Zambezi Ink. I did that for about two years before joining the Trail Blazers as a web content manager. I’ve been doing some form of content creation, be it written, video, or social, for the team ever since.<\/p>\nBut I’ve also been focusing a part of my reporting on what players are wearing on court. Seeing as how the Nike World Headquarters and adidas North American Headquarters are located my backyard, I figured the interest was there to take a team-specific approach to the shoe game. I’ve been doing that for the past three seasons, and I’d like to think I’m ever-so-slightly responsible for more teams realizing there’s great interest among the public in NBA fashion.<\/p>\nMy favorite shoe really varies on a month-to-month basis. My first love has to be the Jordan 5. We didn’t have much money when I was a kid, and growing up in the Oregon wine country when it was still rural, the idea of spending money on sneakers was a complete non-starter. But my parents had a friend who was a secretary at Nike back in the early 90s, and one day they came back from a party at her house with a pair of comp original 5s that she had in her closet. They were a size too big, but I couldn’t have loved them more. I remember going to one of those events put on by the local park & rec department your parents dropped you off at in the summertime to keep you from accidentally burning their house down in those 5s and feeling like a complete badass, which, for a pale, bucktooth, unathletic kid from the lowlands, was a rarity. Rarely a day goes by when I don’t kick myself for not holding on to those.<\/p>\nMy favorite pair right now would probably be the NikeiD Pendleton Roshes my wife bought me for Christmas. Made with wool sheered from sheep here in Oregon and with iconic Pendleton design on a contemporary shoe like the Roshe, it all just comes together for me. But ask me again in a month and I’d probably tell you a that the adidas ZX700 is my favorite. Been wearing those a lot lately. And if anyone at Nike would hook me up with any of the Oregon Jordans (Allen School of Journalism and Communications, Class of 2003!) they would instantly become my favorite pair. Just throwing that out there. Get at me Tinker.<\/p>\nChristopher Cason \u2013 Writer for Examiner.com<\/h3>\nTwitter<\/strong>:\u00a0@C4DUNK<\/a>\/Instagram<\/strong>:\u00a0c4dunk<\/a><\/p>\nI\u2019ve been covering the Chicago Bulls for the Examiner.com for five years now. I report news, game recaps and other stories pertaining to the team. I also write for HOOP magazine and Sneaker Freaker magazine and have contributed to SLAM, Sole Collector, Counterkicks and Modern Notoriety. My start in covering the NBA came from my mentor\/brother Anthony Gilbert, who introduced me to my first writing gig at a site called MVN.com. From there, the Examiner.com started in 2008 and I was contacted about coming aboard. The only way I was leaving MVN was if the Examiner would fight for me to be credentialed. They did, I\u2019m there, and while the Examiner doesn\u2019t help pay the bills, the access it gives me to the opportunities to work with others to tell stories \u2013 and help pay the bills \u2013 is priceless. There\u2019s also the blessing of being able to cover a franchise that I grew up watching. I walk past the Jordan statue before each home game and make sure to step on the hardwood every game I work because it\u2019s definitely a dream come true and something I don\u2019t take for granted. My favorite shoe today remains the Air Jordan V. I still remember seeing my uncle in the original Black\/Silver pair back in \u201991. The flash of the 3M on the tongue instantly caught my eye and changed my mindset on the shoes I wanted to wear going forward, even though my mom wouldn\u2019t get me my first pair of Jordan\u2019s until I was 12 and it was the AJ XIII\u2019s. A lot of my favorite models are from the 90\u2019s because of the design stories behind them and the things that were done in them. The Royal Blue Foamposite, the Nike Air Zoom GP, Nike Hyperflights, Adidas Pro Model, Air Force 180, Air More Uptempo, Air Max Penny 1, Reebok Question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second half of the NBA season begins tonight. Over the course of the season so far, we’ve witnessed a number of intriguing story lines in regards to the kicks worn on court. We’ve seen Nick Young become the player chosen to debut Kobe Bryant’s highly anticipated new signature shoe, LeBron James sparingly wear his most technologically advanced shoe to date and custom designs\/iDs become just as popular, if not more so, than player exclusives. Oh, and what about Matt Bonner’s change of footwear?<\/p>\nWith the awareness of what players wear on court growing almost every day, we formed a new panel of experts in the NBA and sneaker multimedia world \u2013 from NBC Sports, SLAM Magazine and other publications \u2013 to get each expert’s take on scenarios and themes that have been prevalent throughout the first half of the season.<\/p>\nFollowing the discussion below, be sure to visit the last page to get familiar with some of the experts and learn more about their love for sneakers through each person’s bio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":364597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[835],"tags":[1225551],"cultivate_rss":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nKicks On Court: Midseason Panel with NBA Experts | Snkrs Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Where to buy Kicks On Court: Midseason Panel with NBA Experts shoes. 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![<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n8. What has been the surprise storyline of the first half of the season concerning kicks on court?<\/h2>\nPollakoff<\/strong>: LeBron not wearing his signature kicks for most of the year has to be right up there. It\u2019s flown a bit under the radar for reasons discussed above, but the best player in the game not wearing his new signature shoe for much of the season has been a fascinating storyline to watch.<\/p>\nSchwadron<\/strong>: Matt Bonner! No, seriously, Matt Bonner! I don\u2019t know whether to be elated on his behalf that he\u2019s signed a deal with adidas, or totally bummed out by the fact that we won\u2019t ever get to see what might have happened when he got down to that last pair of discontinued New Balance joints. And why hasn\u2019t adidas given the Red Rocket\u2014er, Red Mamba\u2014a totally ridiculous PE yet?<\/p>\nHoldahl<\/strong>:\u00a0I guess it’s not entirely surprising given the brand has had a hell of a time making inroads outside of retros, but the inability of Jordan Brand to make any real progress among NBA players despite turning out a few great models and having a legit stable of names under their umbrella always stuns me. By all accounts, the Jordan XX8 is a great shoe to hoop in, but you rarely see them being worn by any player not being directly payed by JB.<\/p>\nSecond place goes to Steph Curry leaving Nike for Under Armour, though players leaving the Nike and adidas’s of the world for lesser known brands has been on the uptick recently as well.<\/p>\nKiel<\/strong>:\u00a0Matt Bonner. I just thought he would wear New Balances until they gave out and naturally switch to playing barefoot afterwards.<\/p>\nCason<\/strong>:\u00a0I\u2019ll go with surprise and disappointment and say the injuries this season. Derrick Rose, Chris Paul, Nate Robinson, Dwyane Wade, Kobe. Injuries are always a part of the game, but so many big names have lost time this season because of injuries that it\u2019s affected some really good kicks from being on display, in some cases signature kicks by the athletes they\u2019re intended for like Kobe and D. Rose.<\/p>\nDePaula<\/strong>:\u00a0It’s been cool to see all of the Under Armour PEs that Stephen Curry has been wearing, and I’m always closely following all of the players and their shoe deals. With next summer being a huge sneaker free agent class, I’ve been keeping an eye on Stephen now that he’s switched over, and also Paul George, who will be a free agent this summer. On that note, a big surprise was adidas signing both Jeremy Lin and Matt Bonner. They obviously have different levels of impact for much different reasons, but it was cool to see both of those guys have fun with how they announced their new deals. Two things that really stick out and will definitely be looked back on a few years from now are just the fact that LeBron only rarely wore his 11th model, and that Kobe missed huge, huge chunks of the season. Of all the years to do a Prelude Pack, it was just tough luck for Nike this fall, as they were definitely expecting him to be out there for more than 6 games. Another big surprise is that things have been pretty quiet with Jordan Brand. I liked the Christmas Day XX8 SEs and that’s an amazing shoe to play in, but there hasn’t really been much else that caught my attention.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n9. Who do you think is the top dark horse candidate to win the 2014 Kicks On Court Champion award this season?<\/h2>\n<\/a><\/p>\nSchwadron<\/strong>:\u00a0Outside of the more obvious selections, some names that come to mind include Terrence Ross, DeMarcus Cousins and the Morris Twins. But if you\u2019re looking for a real dark-horse candidate? Give me Quincy Miller of the Denver Nuggets. He\u2019s still finding his footing as a player, only playing a handful of minutes per game in his second season, but he\u2019s quietly one of the L\u2019s best when it comes to kicks. He mixes in new stuff, like the HyperRev or Flightposites, with retros like Jordan IIs, IIIs, Xs, XIs, and the Melo 1.5s in Nuggets colors. I think as he continues to improve as a player, he\u2019ll start to get even more shine as a sneaker freak.<\/p>\nHoldahl<\/strong>:\u00a0I’ll do for my fellow Portlander and say Terrence Ross. He switches between Kobe VIIIs, LeBron XIs and various retro Jordans on a game-to-game basis and he gets extra points from me for wearing the Doernbecher 10s, which have an added significance to those of in Rip City where the children’s hospital is located. There’s a balance between staying fresh and trying too hard, and I think T.Ross straddles that line well.<\/p>\nKiel<\/strong>: Quincy Miller is on pace to really contend for the Champion award at the end of the season. He switches it up constantly and has brought out some shoes we rarely see in the NBA, such as the “Silver Anniversary” Air Jordan 2 and the “CDP” Air Jordan XX. All we need is for Coach Shaw to give him some more playing time.<\/p>\nCason<\/strong>:\u00a0Watch out for Matt Bonner in San Antonio, now that he\u2019s signed with adidas. I\u2019m expecting big things between the three stripes and the Red Mamba. I\u2019m actually going to go with DeMarcus Cousins for my dark-house candidate as big men don\u2019t get much love and I can only think of Andre Drummond as the only other big who adds some variety in what they wear. It also goes without saying that finding some of the kicks Demarcus does in such a big size is work in itself.<\/p>\nDePaula<\/strong>:\u00a0The guy that needs to get more love is Isaiah Thomas. He’s got some sleeper PEs of both Kamikazes that are amazing! Otherwise I might have to go with PJ Tucker, Draymond Green or Tony Wroten. They all have a nice rotation so far this season, and I think Draymond does an amazing job with the colorblocks on his Nike iDs. He might have a future as a Product Line Manager when he’s done hoopin’.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nMeet Members of the Roundtable<\/h2>\nAbe Schwadron \u2013 Sneaker Editor at SLAM Magazine<\/h3>\nTwitter<\/strong>: @abe_squad<\/a>\/Instagram<\/strong>: abe_squad<\/a><\/p>\nI\u2019m the sneaker editor at SLAM Magazine, officially under the title of Assistant Editor\/KICKS, and when I\u2019m not handling kicks coverage for SLAMonline, you can find me chasing down NBA feature stories for the mag each month. I also made major writing and research contributions to the forthcoming book \u201cSLAM KICKS Presents: Basketball Sneakers that Changed the Game\u201d (coming in March!), have covered the Nets on a freelance basis for NBA.com on occasion and run SLAM\u2019s new football site, TDdaily.com on an everyday basis. I grew up on the Maryland side of the DMV, and my parents somehow knew to keep me laced in Jordans and Iversons in my formative years despite never being anywhere near as big into hoops as I was. I played a little JV ball in high school before studying journalism at Northwestern University, where I once scored 30 points in an intramural game against the Jewish fraternity\u2019s B-team. I wound up at SLAM after interning at SI.com and ESPN Radio, and then relentlessly pestering the staff at SLAM until they said \u201cFine, you can intern if you stop e-mailing us\u201d in the fall of 2011, which eventually led to a full-time gig. In the past calendar year, I played both basketball and flag football against Kevin Durant. In the next calendar year, I want to add a pair of Reebok Answer Vs to my sneaker collection.<\/p>\nGeorge Kiel \u2013 Associate Editor at NiceKicks.com<\/h3>\nTwitter<\/strong>:\u00a0@geokthree<\/a>\/Instagram<\/strong>:\u00a0geokthree<\/a><\/p>\nI\u2019m the associate editor at NiceKicks.com. Since 2008, I\u2019ve had my hands in pretty much everything here, including day-to-day staff writing, conducting interviews, editing, representing the company at media events and many other things. I\u2019m in charge of our Kicks On Court column and have expanded it to our 2-year-old Kicks On Court Weekly Recap show. I\u2019m also the host of our Sneak Peek series, where we visit the homes of various celebrities, athletes and sneaker enthusiasts to get an in-depth look inside their\u00a0sneaker closets\/collections.\u00a0I studied Mass Communications\/Print Journalism in college at Texas State University, where I also played on the basketball team and wrote for the Sports section of the school newspaper \u2013 University Star \u2013 simultaneously. As for sneakers, they have always been a by-product of my love for basketball. I have been playing basketball since the age of five and have always paid attention to what people wore on the court. Some of my all-time favorites on-court shoes include the Nike Air Zoom T-Bug Flight, the Nike Zoom Flight Turbine, the Nike Zoom Kobe V, the adidas Pro Model, the Air Jordan 11 and the Nike Hyperflight. All of those shoes have graced my feet at some point during my basketball career from middle school to college. I also have a weird thing for grey shoes. 75% of my shoe collection is colored in grey.<\/p>\nCasey Holdahl \u2013 Portland Trail Blazers In-House Beat Reporter<\/h3>\nTwitter<\/strong>: @CHold<\/a>\/Instagram<\/strong>: caseyholdahl<\/a><\/p>\nCasey Holdahl here and I’m the in-house beat reporter for the Portland Trail Blazers. This is my seventh season with the team, though this is the first year that I’m covering the team exclusively for all 82 games at both Trailblazers.com<\/a>\u00a0and ForwardCenter.net<\/a>. I’m at every practice, every shootaround and every game, both home and away, filling the reporting space in between what you would get from an old fashioned newspaper beat reporter and your typical rah-rah NBA team site.<\/p>\nAs for how I got here, I started out founding one of the first Trail Blazers blogs, which eventually became Blazersedge.com<\/a>. No one actually got paid to blog back then, so I turned over the site to Dave, who does wonderful job of running it now, for a job at OregonLive.com<\/a>, which is the online home for The Oregonian newspaper. I got bumped up to their Blazers Blog duty after the guy who was writing it, my dude Eric Marentette, left OregonLive to work for Kobe Bryant’s now mostly defunct creative agency, Zambezi Ink. I did that for about two years before joining the Trail Blazers as a web content manager. I’ve been doing some form of content creation, be it written, video, or social, for the team ever since.<\/p>\nBut I’ve also been focusing a part of my reporting on what players are wearing on court. Seeing as how the Nike World Headquarters and adidas North American Headquarters are located my backyard, I figured the interest was there to take a team-specific approach to the shoe game. I’ve been doing that for the past three seasons, and I’d like to think I’m ever-so-slightly responsible for more teams realizing there’s great interest among the public in NBA fashion.<\/p>\nMy favorite shoe really varies on a month-to-month basis. My first love has to be the Jordan 5. We didn’t have much money when I was a kid, and growing up in the Oregon wine country when it was still rural, the idea of spending money on sneakers was a complete non-starter. But my parents had a friend who was a secretary at Nike back in the early 90s, and one day they came back from a party at her house with a pair of comp original 5s that she had in her closet. They were a size too big, but I couldn’t have loved them more. I remember going to one of those events put on by the local park & rec department your parents dropped you off at in the summertime to keep you from accidentally burning their house down in those 5s and feeling like a complete badass, which, for a pale, bucktooth, unathletic kid from the lowlands, was a rarity. Rarely a day goes by when I don’t kick myself for not holding on to those.<\/p>\nMy favorite pair right now would probably be the NikeiD Pendleton Roshes my wife bought me for Christmas. Made with wool sheered from sheep here in Oregon and with iconic Pendleton design on a contemporary shoe like the Roshe, it all just comes together for me. But ask me again in a month and I’d probably tell you a that the adidas ZX700 is my favorite. Been wearing those a lot lately. And if anyone at Nike would hook me up with any of the Oregon Jordans (Allen School of Journalism and Communications, Class of 2003!) they would instantly become my favorite pair. Just throwing that out there. Get at me Tinker.<\/p>\nChristopher Cason \u2013 Writer for Examiner.com<\/h3>\nTwitter<\/strong>:\u00a0@C4DUNK<\/a>\/Instagram<\/strong>:\u00a0c4dunk<\/a><\/p>\nI\u2019ve been covering the Chicago Bulls for the Examiner.com for five years now. I report news, game recaps and other stories pertaining to the team. I also write for HOOP magazine and Sneaker Freaker magazine and have contributed to SLAM, Sole Collector, Counterkicks and Modern Notoriety. My start in covering the NBA came from my mentor\/brother Anthony Gilbert, who introduced me to my first writing gig at a site called MVN.com. From there, the Examiner.com started in 2008 and I was contacted about coming aboard. The only way I was leaving MVN was if the Examiner would fight for me to be credentialed. They did, I\u2019m there, and while the Examiner doesn\u2019t help pay the bills, the access it gives me to the opportunities to work with others to tell stories \u2013 and help pay the bills \u2013 is priceless. There\u2019s also the blessing of being able to cover a franchise that I grew up watching. I walk past the Jordan statue before each home game and make sure to step on the hardwood every game I work because it\u2019s definitely a dream come true and something I don\u2019t take for granted. My favorite shoe today remains the Air Jordan V. I still remember seeing my uncle in the original Black\/Silver pair back in \u201991. The flash of the 3M on the tongue instantly caught my eye and changed my mindset on the shoes I wanted to wear going forward, even though my mom wouldn\u2019t get me my first pair of Jordan\u2019s until I was 12 and it was the AJ XIII\u2019s. A lot of my favorite models are from the 90\u2019s because of the design stories behind them and the things that were done in them. The Royal Blue Foamposite, the Nike Air Zoom GP, Nike Hyperflights, Adidas Pro Model, Air Force 180, Air More Uptempo, Air Max Penny 1, Reebok Question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second half of the NBA season begins tonight. Over the course of the season so far, we’ve witnessed a number of intriguing story lines in regards to the kicks worn on court. We’ve seen Nick Young become the player chosen to debut Kobe Bryant’s highly anticipated new signature shoe, LeBron James sparingly wear his most technologically advanced shoe to date and custom designs\/iDs become just as popular, if not more so, than player exclusives. Oh, and what about Matt Bonner’s change of footwear?<\/p>\nWith the awareness of what players wear on court growing almost every day, we formed a new panel of experts in the NBA and sneaker multimedia world \u2013 from NBC Sports, SLAM Magazine and other publications \u2013 to get each expert’s take on scenarios and themes that have been prevalent throughout the first half of the season.<\/p>\nFollowing the discussion below, be sure to visit the last page to get familiar with some of the experts and learn more about their love for sneakers through each person’s bio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":364597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[835],"tags":[1225551],"cultivate_rss":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nKicks On Court: Midseason Panel with NBA Experts | Snkrs Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Where to buy Kicks On Court: Midseason Panel with NBA Experts shoes. 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![<\/a><\/p>\nSchwadron<\/strong>:\u00a0Outside of the more obvious selections, some names that come to mind include Terrence Ross, DeMarcus Cousins and the Morris Twins. But if you\u2019re looking for a real dark-horse candidate? Give me Quincy Miller of the Denver Nuggets. He\u2019s still finding his footing as a player, only playing a handful of minutes per game in his second season, but he\u2019s quietly one of the L\u2019s best when it comes to kicks. He mixes in new stuff, like the HyperRev or Flightposites, with retros like Jordan IIs, IIIs, Xs, XIs, and the Melo 1.5s in Nuggets colors. I think as he continues to improve as a player, he\u2019ll start to get even more shine as a sneaker freak.<\/p>\nHoldahl<\/strong>:\u00a0I’ll do for my fellow Portlander and say Terrence Ross. He switches between Kobe VIIIs, LeBron XIs and various retro Jordans on a game-to-game basis and he gets extra points from me for wearing the Doernbecher 10s, which have an added significance to those of in Rip City where the children’s hospital is located. There’s a balance between staying fresh and trying too hard, and I think T.Ross straddles that line well.<\/p>\nKiel<\/strong>: Quincy Miller is on pace to really contend for the Champion award at the end of the season. He switches it up constantly and has brought out some shoes we rarely see in the NBA, such as the “Silver Anniversary” Air Jordan 2 and the “CDP” Air Jordan XX. All we need is for Coach Shaw to give him some more playing time.<\/p>\nCason<\/strong>:\u00a0Watch out for Matt Bonner in San Antonio, now that he\u2019s signed with adidas. I\u2019m expecting big things between the three stripes and the Red Mamba. I\u2019m actually going to go with DeMarcus Cousins for my dark-house candidate as big men don\u2019t get much love and I can only think of Andre Drummond as the only other big who adds some variety in what they wear. It also goes without saying that finding some of the kicks Demarcus does in such a big size is work in itself.<\/p>\nDePaula<\/strong>:\u00a0The guy that needs to get more love is Isaiah Thomas. He’s got some sleeper PEs of both Kamikazes that are amazing! Otherwise I might have to go with PJ Tucker, Draymond Green or Tony Wroten. They all have a nice rotation so far this season, and I think Draymond does an amazing job with the colorblocks on his Nike iDs. He might have a future as a Product Line Manager when he’s done hoopin’.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nMeet Members of the Roundtable<\/h2>\nAbe Schwadron \u2013 Sneaker Editor at SLAM Magazine<\/h3>\nTwitter<\/strong>: @abe_squad<\/a>\/Instagram<\/strong>: abe_squad<\/a><\/p>\nI\u2019m the sneaker editor at SLAM Magazine, officially under the title of Assistant Editor\/KICKS, and when I\u2019m not handling kicks coverage for SLAMonline, you can find me chasing down NBA feature stories for the mag each month. I also made major writing and research contributions to the forthcoming book \u201cSLAM KICKS Presents: Basketball Sneakers that Changed the Game\u201d (coming in March!), have covered the Nets on a freelance basis for NBA.com on occasion and run SLAM\u2019s new football site, TDdaily.com on an everyday basis. I grew up on the Maryland side of the DMV, and my parents somehow knew to keep me laced in Jordans and Iversons in my formative years despite never being anywhere near as big into hoops as I was. I played a little JV ball in high school before studying journalism at Northwestern University, where I once scored 30 points in an intramural game against the Jewish fraternity\u2019s B-team. I wound up at SLAM after interning at SI.com and ESPN Radio, and then relentlessly pestering the staff at SLAM until they said \u201cFine, you can intern if you stop e-mailing us\u201d in the fall of 2011, which eventually led to a full-time gig. In the past calendar year, I played both basketball and flag football against Kevin Durant. In the next calendar year, I want to add a pair of Reebok Answer Vs to my sneaker collection.<\/p>\nGeorge Kiel \u2013 Associate Editor at NiceKicks.com<\/h3>\nTwitter<\/strong>:\u00a0@geokthree<\/a>\/Instagram<\/strong>:\u00a0geokthree<\/a><\/p>\nI\u2019m the associate editor at NiceKicks.com. Since 2008, I\u2019ve had my hands in pretty much everything here, including day-to-day staff writing, conducting interviews, editing, representing the company at media events and many other things. I\u2019m in charge of our Kicks On Court column and have expanded it to our 2-year-old Kicks On Court Weekly Recap show. I\u2019m also the host of our Sneak Peek series, where we visit the homes of various celebrities, athletes and sneaker enthusiasts to get an in-depth look inside their\u00a0sneaker closets\/collections.\u00a0I studied Mass Communications\/Print Journalism in college at Texas State University, where I also played on the basketball team and wrote for the Sports section of the school newspaper \u2013 University Star \u2013 simultaneously. As for sneakers, they have always been a by-product of my love for basketball. I have been playing basketball since the age of five and have always paid attention to what people wore on the court. Some of my all-time favorites on-court shoes include the Nike Air Zoom T-Bug Flight, the Nike Zoom Flight Turbine, the Nike Zoom Kobe V, the adidas Pro Model, the Air Jordan 11 and the Nike Hyperflight. All of those shoes have graced my feet at some point during my basketball career from middle school to college. I also have a weird thing for grey shoes. 75% of my shoe collection is colored in grey.<\/p>\nCasey Holdahl \u2013 Portland Trail Blazers In-House Beat Reporter<\/h3>\nTwitter<\/strong>: @CHold<\/a>\/Instagram<\/strong>: caseyholdahl<\/a><\/p>\nCasey Holdahl here and I’m the in-house beat reporter for the Portland Trail Blazers. This is my seventh season with the team, though this is the first year that I’m covering the team exclusively for all 82 games at both Trailblazers.com<\/a>\u00a0and ForwardCenter.net<\/a>. I’m at every practice, every shootaround and every game, both home and away, filling the reporting space in between what you would get from an old fashioned newspaper beat reporter and your typical rah-rah NBA team site.<\/p>\nAs for how I got here, I started out founding one of the first Trail Blazers blogs, which eventually became Blazersedge.com<\/a>. No one actually got paid to blog back then, so I turned over the site to Dave, who does wonderful job of running it now, for a job at OregonLive.com<\/a>, which is the online home for The Oregonian newspaper. I got bumped up to their Blazers Blog duty after the guy who was writing it, my dude Eric Marentette, left OregonLive to work for Kobe Bryant’s now mostly defunct creative agency, Zambezi Ink. I did that for about two years before joining the Trail Blazers as a web content manager. I’ve been doing some form of content creation, be it written, video, or social, for the team ever since.<\/p>\nBut I’ve also been focusing a part of my reporting on what players are wearing on court. Seeing as how the Nike World Headquarters and adidas North American Headquarters are located my backyard, I figured the interest was there to take a team-specific approach to the shoe game. I’ve been doing that for the past three seasons, and I’d like to think I’m ever-so-slightly responsible for more teams realizing there’s great interest among the public in NBA fashion.<\/p>\nMy favorite shoe really varies on a month-to-month basis. My first love has to be the Jordan 5. We didn’t have much money when I was a kid, and growing up in the Oregon wine country when it was still rural, the idea of spending money on sneakers was a complete non-starter. But my parents had a friend who was a secretary at Nike back in the early 90s, and one day they came back from a party at her house with a pair of comp original 5s that she had in her closet. They were a size too big, but I couldn’t have loved them more. I remember going to one of those events put on by the local park & rec department your parents dropped you off at in the summertime to keep you from accidentally burning their house down in those 5s and feeling like a complete badass, which, for a pale, bucktooth, unathletic kid from the lowlands, was a rarity. Rarely a day goes by when I don’t kick myself for not holding on to those.<\/p>\nMy favorite pair right now would probably be the NikeiD Pendleton Roshes my wife bought me for Christmas. Made with wool sheered from sheep here in Oregon and with iconic Pendleton design on a contemporary shoe like the Roshe, it all just comes together for me. But ask me again in a month and I’d probably tell you a that the adidas ZX700 is my favorite. Been wearing those a lot lately. And if anyone at Nike would hook me up with any of the Oregon Jordans (Allen School of Journalism and Communications, Class of 2003!) they would instantly become my favorite pair. Just throwing that out there. Get at me Tinker.<\/p>\nChristopher Cason \u2013 Writer for Examiner.com<\/h3>\nTwitter<\/strong>:\u00a0@C4DUNK<\/a>\/Instagram<\/strong>:\u00a0c4dunk<\/a><\/p>\nI\u2019ve been covering the Chicago Bulls for the Examiner.com for five years now. I report news, game recaps and other stories pertaining to the team. I also write for HOOP magazine and Sneaker Freaker magazine and have contributed to SLAM, Sole Collector, Counterkicks and Modern Notoriety. My start in covering the NBA came from my mentor\/brother Anthony Gilbert, who introduced me to my first writing gig at a site called MVN.com. From there, the Examiner.com started in 2008 and I was contacted about coming aboard. The only way I was leaving MVN was if the Examiner would fight for me to be credentialed. They did, I\u2019m there, and while the Examiner doesn\u2019t help pay the bills, the access it gives me to the opportunities to work with others to tell stories \u2013 and help pay the bills \u2013 is priceless. There\u2019s also the blessing of being able to cover a franchise that I grew up watching. I walk past the Jordan statue before each home game and make sure to step on the hardwood every game I work because it\u2019s definitely a dream come true and something I don\u2019t take for granted. My favorite shoe today remains the Air Jordan V. I still remember seeing my uncle in the original Black\/Silver pair back in \u201991. The flash of the 3M on the tongue instantly caught my eye and changed my mindset on the shoes I wanted to wear going forward, even though my mom wouldn\u2019t get me my first pair of Jordan\u2019s until I was 12 and it was the AJ XIII\u2019s. A lot of my favorite models are from the 90\u2019s because of the design stories behind them and the things that were done in them. The Royal Blue Foamposite, the Nike Air Zoom GP, Nike Hyperflights, Adidas Pro Model, Air Force 180, Air More Uptempo, Air Max Penny 1, Reebok Question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second half of the NBA season begins tonight. Over the course of the season so far, we’ve witnessed a number of intriguing story lines in regards to the kicks worn on court. We’ve seen Nick Young become the player chosen to debut Kobe Bryant’s highly anticipated new signature shoe, LeBron James sparingly wear his most technologically advanced shoe to date and custom designs\/iDs become just as popular, if not more so, than player exclusives. Oh, and what about Matt Bonner’s change of footwear?<\/p>\nWith the awareness of what players wear on court growing almost every day, we formed a new panel of experts in the NBA and sneaker multimedia world \u2013 from NBC Sports, SLAM Magazine and other publications \u2013 to get each expert’s take on scenarios and themes that have been prevalent throughout the first half of the season.<\/p>\nFollowing the discussion below, be sure to visit the last page to get familiar with some of the experts and learn more about their love for sneakers through each person’s bio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":364597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[835],"tags":[1225551],"cultivate_rss":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nKicks On Court: Midseason Panel with NBA Experts | Snkrs Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Where to buy Kicks On Court: Midseason Panel with NBA Experts shoes. 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