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For the 2021-2022 NBA season, basketball imprint Spalding handed off the reins back to Wilson to be the league’s official game ball manufacturer again. And for the second year of its rekindled partnership, Wilson has teamed up with the professional hoops entity to honor each of its teams with a special City Edition basketball assemblage and coincide with Nike’s City Edition Jersey announcement. The Chicago-based sporting equipment company pays homage to each of the 30 squads by taking important aspects of their respective city cultures and implementing them into their designs. Each franchise is given two types — one being a Collector’s ball and the other being a standard variation. One stand-outs from the range include the Detroit Pistons which bears a color palette symbolic of Saint Cecil...

Kith founder and CEO Ronnie Fieg has been appointed as the New York Knicks‘ first-ever creative director. Fieg has always had a longstanding relationship with the NBA team, this time, he grows his partnership with an official title. For the past two years, Fieg has brought the city of New York and Knicks fans the sleek City Edition uniforms, which subsequently led to the Kith collections from the past couple of seasons. With his new role, Fieg will take on additional responsibilities with the team, focusing on building international recognition around the brand and community. On the design front, he is set to develop an in-house line of products. Fieg designed this year’s City Edition Uniform, which took inspiration from the 1999-2003 Knicks uniform. Fiege discussed how the partnership cam...

Spalding, the legendary sports equipment brand will be releasing an exclusive collaboration with Stranger Things, one of the most popular Netflix shows to date. All modeled on Spalding’s size 7 basketballs, the collaboration comprises four different designs aptly named Fireball, Hawkins, and Greetings along with a Top-Flite 100 edition. Fireball draws inspiration from The Hellfire Club and also the aesthetic of D&D dice. Exuding rock n’ roll flair, it’s decked with flaming basketball motifs as well as custom “Fireball Him!” lettering. Hawkins, on the other hand, derives its design from the Hawkins High Basketball Team “The Tigers,” and is doused in the team’s signature yellow and green, complete with tiger motifs. While, Greetings will take its users outside of Hawkins, and all the way...

After releasing renderings of the stunning competition venues, the 2024 Paris Olympics commission has now officially revealed the upcoming games’ new mascot. Rather than choosing an animal, the new Phryges (pronounced “fri-jee-uhs”) mascot represents an ideal. Phryges is based on the Phrygian cap, an international symbol of liberty worn throughout history by freed slaves in Rome as well as on different emblems in North and South America. It later became a symbol representing the identity and spirit of the French Republic. “With a thousand years of experience, our Phryges know that revolutions take preparation. At the heart of this movement, the Olympics and Paralympics Phryges have the mission of demonstrating to the world that sport can change everything and that it deserves to have a lea...

It was a moment of jubilation for Manchester United. August 31, 2021, in a moment that quite frankly stunned the world of sports and came at the expense of their hometown rivals — Cristiano Ronaldo returned home. But just over a year on, the star Portuguese forward feels “betrayed” by the club. “I don’t have respect for him [Ten Hag] because he doesn’t show respect for me,” Ronaldo said in an interview for Wednesday’s edition of “Piers Morgan Uncensored.” Ronaldo’s chagrin comes at a series of poor performances by the team, and more importantly, his lack of starts which is uncommon for a player of his caliber. During this past summer, where much of the football world expected him to sign elsewhere, perhaps Bayern Munich, Ronaldo &...

It was a moment of jubilation for Manchester United. August 31, 2021, in a moment that quite frankly stunned the world of sports and came at the expense of their hometown rivals — Cristiano Ronaldo returned home. But just over a year on, the star Portuguese forward feels “betrayed” by the club. “I don’t have respect for him [Ten Hag] because he doesn’t show respect for me,” Ronaldo said in an interview for Wednesday’s edition of “Piers Morgan Uncensored.” Ronaldo’s chagrin comes at a series of poor performances by the team, and more importantly, his lack of starts which is uncommon for a player of his caliber. During this past summer, where much of the football world expected him to sign elsewhere, perhaps Bayern Munich, Ronaldo &...

Kevin Durant is uncontestedly one of the best shooters in the NBA. Known for his sniper-scoring ability and three-pointers, the Brooklyn Nets superstar recently hit a milestone very few have been able to accomplish. ESPN Stats have indicated that KD’s shooting so far during the 2022-23 season has garnered him a feat only Michael Jordan has achieved in the ’80s. Durant is now the first player since Jordan to score 13 consecutive 25-point games to kick off the season. In the 1988-89 season, Michael Jordan began with 16 straight games scoring 25 or above. KD has made sure that despite Kyrie Irving‘s absence, he is still able to lead the team with success. As of writing, the Nets are 6-7 and are currently ninth in the Eastern Conference. Tonight, KD and the Brooklyn Nets face...

Anthony “Rumble” Johnson, a light heavyweight MMA fighter, has passed away at the age of 38 following a battle with illness. The news of Johnson’s death was shared on social media on Sunday by Bellator MMA, one of the promotions he had been involved with. Bellator said that Johnson had been ill for over a year with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and a rare blood disorder called Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. “The BELLATOR family is devastated by his untimely passing and we send our condolences to his family and friends during this difficult time,” the company said. Johnson had spent the majority of his career fighting in UFC’s light heavyweight division, where he was the number 1 ranked contender, before retiring from the league in 2017. He competed in a single fight for Bellator in...

Kevin Durant appears to want to expand his business portfolio. Just last week, billionaires JAY-Z and Jeff Bezos were reportedly looking to buy the Washington Commanders. The Brooklyn Nets star has been following the NFL team and the events of Dan Snyder’s potential sale. Last week, Snyder and his wife announced that they have hired the Bank of America Securities “to explore potential transactions involving the team.” In a recent interview with ESPN Durant revealed his interest, “In a perfect world, I would be a part of it. I would love to do it. I would love to give a little bit of my money to be a part of the Commanders, but we’ll see. Hopefully, it’s somebody nice. I heard [Amazon CEO Jeff] Bezos and JAY-Z, but you never know.” After JAY-Z and Bezos expressed their interest, Mat Ishbia,...

London-based imprint Aries and New Balance have reunited to deliver a stellar collaboration for Italian football giants AS Roma. The latest football and fashion crossover is one of the best-looking cross-cultural collaborations of 2022, with the British luxury streetwear brand delivering their lucid, irreverent design cues to one of the most iconic clubs in world football. The collection includes an official “on-pitch” kit, which stays true to the famous Giallorossi colorway of gold and red, with Aries adding their trademark diagonal marbling streak to the eye-catching jersey. Matching elite football socks and pro-shorts complete the kits, while a goalkeeper jersey arrived with Aries’ infamous dyed cosmic colorways, inspired by trash culture, outsider art and illustration – core influences...

After parting ways with head coach Steve Nash earlier this week, the Brooklyn Nets announced on Thursday that it will be suspending Kyrie Irving for at least five games without pay for his failure to disavow antisemitism when given a clear opportunity to do so, further stating that he is “currently unfit to be associated with the Brooklyn Nets.” It’s reported that Kyrie’s five-game suspension without pay will extend until he “satisfies a series of objective remedial measures that address the harmful impact of his conduct.” Last week, Irving was criticized for tweeting a link to the controversial movie “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,” based on Ronald Dalton’s 2018 book which is seen as antisemitic by civil rights groups. Following the backlash, the tweet was deleted and Irving a...