Learning how to fall is just as important as getting back up if you want to have long career in the NBA. This is something that celebrity trainer Ed Downs, a fifth-degree black belt and former Navy Seals trainer, has taught Miami Heat shooting guard Dwyane Wade over the years in their work together. Read More »

Today marks the release of the Nike Air Penny V “Orlando” in its black/white/blue colorway.

Foot Locker’s Unlocked Blog has some history of shoe and some detailed photos after the jump. Read More »

In the new issue of Dime Magazine, we took a look at the best – and worst – the game has offered since the turn of the century. From the players to jerseys to sneakers to teams to even trends, you can relive the past 12 years by scooping up the new issue currently on newsstands nationwide. In those pages, you’ll find the following feature… Read More »

We showed you the Red Eagles. We showed you the Invisibility Cloaks. We showed you the Miami and Orlando editions as well, but these Nike Air Penny V “Suns” might be the best colorway we’ve seen so far of the latest edition to Penny Hardaway‘s signature line, the Nike Air Penny V. Read More »

We showed you the Invisibility Cloaks. We showed you the Miami and Orlando editions as well, but these Nike Air Penny V “Red Eagles” might be the best colorway we’ve seen so far of the latest edition to Penny Hardaway‘s signature line. Read More »

If you don’t feel like waiting a full six or seven months to grab a pair of these “Orlando” Nike Air Penny Vs, or hopefully the Miami-inspired Nike Air Penny Vs, you can get them early on eBay. Thanks to our friends at Sneakernews.com, we now know skit_japan is selling them for a Buy It Now price of $400 (Ed. The “Miami” pair was just sold a few minutes ago for $450). Steep, but that was expected given the line – besides Jordans, no sneaker line creates enough hype to match the excitement that comes with every Penny release – and the sneaker – the Penny V, which will take the line away from the strap of the IV and back towards the style that made the first three editions of the line so wildly popular. Read More »

As Kentucky’s championship celebration from Bourbon Street to Lexington drew to an end, baseball’s Opening Day debuted this past weekend. In between the taste of alcohol in N’awlins and smell of hot dogs filling the lazy summer days at the ballpark, the Los Angeles Dodgers are now relevant again thanks to one of the city’s own original caretakers: Magic Johnson. He became the first African-American owner of a MLB team and instantly the face of one of the most iconic franchises in sports history. Read More »

Not a whole lot needs to be written here. Any Penny Hardaway list is a good one. In my humble opinion, I’ll still say the top 10 list I created a little while back was better than this one. But who’s comparing? And more importantly, who’s complaining? Read More »

If you’re a fan of Penny Hardaway, it’s impossible not to consider what could have been. Penny was All-NBA First Team twice by the time he was 25. Who knows what heights he could have reached if only his body had held up?

That said, there’s no point to focusing on what didn’t happen at the expense of celebrating what actually did. Penny’s all too brief period atop the basketball world brought him a well-deserved enduring legacy, and his eternally cool Nike signature line and 1 Cent logo continues to resonate with sneakerheads of all ages. Read More »

This piece first appeared on Foot Locker’s Unlocked Blog

Penny Hardaway was a bad dude.

You know you had game when no one since has been able to replicate it. He was a 6-7 point who could post you, spin off you, hit you with the step-back, float a sick hook shot on you, stroke the trey and drop a dime. He balled against Mike & Scottie. He was the Next Jordan. He had a mini-me. And he won. That’s what separated him from a lot of other cats. Dude won games, had the sneaker game on lock (and somehow still does), and left an undeniable imprint on the NBA, despite only being truly healthy for about four years.

How do I know this? When we posted a Who’s Better? featuring Penny, our Twitter blew up. People still love him. Grown folks love him. Even teenagers who never saw him play love him. Why? Read More »