New Air Jordans Disappoint.

If you watched North Carolina-Duke or Syracuse-Georgetown on Wednesday night, you may have noticed the kicks being worn by some of the Tar Heels and pretty much all of the Hoyas. Carolina and Georgetown are both Jordan Brand schools and, therefore, got first dibs on sporting the Air Jordan 2012 model. The shoe is scheduled to be made available to the general public on February 25. I'm not a fan, but I did stumble upon a funny story (with language that may offend) about Michael Jordan and the designer of the Air Jordan XI (the shiny patent leather ones), Tinker Hatfield. Incidentally, Hatfield is a co-designer of the Air Jordan 2012. Here's a video about the Air Jordan 2012 that is really stupid.

Shoe Game

HoopsHype has updated its NBA sneaker database, which provides info concerning the shoe selections of every NBA player - make and model (with pics of the kicks). Wondering who is rocking the Air Jordan II's? Or who is the only player in the Association sporting New Balance? Or the names of the strange Chinese brands being worn by Jason Kidd, Shaq, and KG? Yeah, me, too.

Here's the link: HOOPSHYPE NBA SNEAKER DATABASE

Despite my love for Adidas and my nostalgia for old school Nike models, if I was in the NBA, there would be 23 players in the league wearing the ultra-light Zoom Kobe V.