We’re coming back 
We’re coming back
We’re coming back 
We’re coming back 
We’re coming back to you 
We’re never gonna go away again 
Hold on a little longer, try a little harder ’til we’re arm in arm together to the end 
So remember, out there somewhere you’ve got a friend, 
And you’ll never walk alone again. 
Don’t get worried Don’t get scared 
We’re fighting to get there 
Never doubt we’re gonna get through 
We’re gonna run 
We’re gonna crawl 
Kick down every wall 
It won’t be long we’re coming back to you 
So remember, out there somewhere you’ve got a friend, 
And you’ll never walk alone again.
We’re coming back 
We’re coming back 
We’re coming back to you 
We’re never gonna go away again 
Hold on a little longer, try a little harder ’til we’re arm in arm together to the end
So remember, out there somewhere you’ve got a friend, 
And you’ll never walk alone again.

PE crazy, crazy PE… Player Exclusives’ - one offs the sneaker companies make for actual basketball players - are always incredible, from the tan XVIIs they wear at Brown to whatever Ray Allen decides to put on this week. That these sheeds are in my size is even more outrageous. Doesn’t he know I don’t have $1000 immediately (4 days and change) available on something I need? I’ve written about sheeds below, so I’ll only mention how “both teams played hard” is the best way I imagine they describe successful marriages (it is Valentine’s day, the shoes are red). But it’s because it’s V day, and why wouldn’t someone put my dogg’s shoe up, in my size, for money, today?

PE sneakers’ values are barely defined by eBay prices, inasmuch that anything collectible can avoid eBay. There are always PE’s on ebay, sure, but more often than not, it’s the same guy selling the same pair of size 14 Bibby XIIs. The market itself is pretty hard to crack, as PE’s number in the handful. This one isn’t even Sheed’s number, it’s some guy named 30. George McGinnis? I wouldn’t be surprised. Some are so rare, you will never get them, the five dozen people who have all of them will never trade you. Sorry. After the rare eBay pair, your best bet would be to make friends with B1LLY HOYLE AINT NO CHUMP off niketalk, or someone off the grid. Good luck with that, too.

220198380670 One of the stranger shifts in perspective in the sneaker game has been Nike’s complete shift to helping out sneakerheads, throwing them bones where they didn’t used to. In 2003 pining for rare airs and developing taste on Niketalk would mean something, but not yield much in the way of results. Like a wildwood? Too bad; only two will drop this year, and in colors you wouldn’t predict (what’s up, rhino). Now though it seems Nike is meeting her minions halfway, throwing out orange and paisley Joy Division Trainer IIs for all the college kids out there.. and it’s been five years since I was fucking with it for a year. The mask at Nike seems to be down, at least for the casual, sneakerhead division. You bark loud enough, ask for bright shoes, she’ll give them to you. I sort of miss the days when the old girl was an opaque monolith, giant, incalculable. What got pimped and why was never apparent, though sometimes she’d throw you a bone. Why did she drop those Mowabbs (scroll way down for AJ’s take)? Why did she make Mids, and then dead ‘em?  

These tech challenges fall with the latter. The originals were great shoes, with a great ad campaign, to be sure, and could hold their own on the quality of concept scale with any Jordan, Force, Flight, or Trainer, depending who you ask. But, forgotten to the sands of time, their image languished on the shelf. Rightly so: Andre Agassi, their face, cut his hair, copped a long term girl, and eventually fell off. As for the clothes.. weren’t no doggs wearing these like they did Jordan wear. So leave it to a handful of bums to bid up mislisted auctions, right around the New Hampshire primaries. Leave it to doggs making threads, nerds buying cred, bored men filling their nights with the rest of their paychecks.. So Nike hollered, and hooked some doggs up with a great shoe, one some have been bumping in the corner for a minute. But by this point it was too late… 

Here is one Lebron that’s fly. The low of the II. IMO the best low Lebron out there. It tends to look a little beat, but that’s because doggs haven’t been wearing them icy in a minute. But with some black socks, you’d be killing it. Cheap, too!

The illest of the forces. Coach Leather! Not as good as Gucci or LV, but good enough for two feet, if you ask me. Plus, a rare colorway (not the shoe, but of shoes in general), make this ragamuff a winner. Are these really a $200 shoe though? Come on.

What does everyone think of Chris Paul being in the running the MVP? Considering how odd votes are drawn to the trophy, it might be possible. But I’m not quite sure it’s his to win. First of all, Mo Pete is why that team is doing better, you know I’m a Raps fan. Paul IS nasty though, but he has a pretty good team. And PG’s should be their team’s MVP to begin with, but that’s me. It’s probably Lebron’s or KG’s to lose, in my opinion Lebron because his team is so putrid. I mean, they’re behind the Knicks in FG%. SMH. As for Garnett, I really feel like he’s doing more coaching than playing.. and he’s doing a lot of playing. They’re like a hot dog away from messing with a 1950s Indians or 70s Canadiens vibe, player coach and all that. Boston did a 180 because Jesus is spreading the floor and Garnett is heavier than.. well, Jesus. But the cavs, Lebron is getting incrementally better.. but those are Lebron increments, which are jumps most men will never make.

ps can we talk about Jason Williams
-friends with Randy Moss
-good hair
-complains
-is gangsta
Why doesn’t he have a shoe?

A bit of a short post, although I don’t mean to be neglectful. I’m just in the middle of moving and doing a few other things. I assure you this lapse has nothing to do with my work ethic, the seasons, or frequency of heatful auctions, but the return might have a little to do with the fact that there’s a Heat game on. Sweet…

1. The chlorophyll trainer is cleaner than most air maxes. It’s hard sometimes to believe John McEnroe wore them because they’re so much boxier and stronger than he is. Though some of my faves wear the SBs, only these colors are doable in my opinion, however, to be honest, these and the energies (good luck finding those) might be a little too unhumorous for regular wear in the 2008.

2. Year of the Mouse Court Forces? Is it Year of the Mouse? And if it is, do we really want to bring it in with Court Forces? That’s like having a muffin on your birthday. I really love all the Year Of Forces, they’re some of the best looking all white forces, and the term is one of my favorite eBay qualifiers. I guess if you don’t really like your girl, you can buy her these.

3. Not really a sneaker, but if you won this auction, laminated this, put it on a string and wore it, you’d get more stares than that footaction manager who’s been rocking the XXIIIs since March.

I really, really wish I wasn’t watching a Heat game now. Luckily CC has been sending me Seinfeld quotes throughout this update.

Best..