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The Complex Sneakers Podcast is co-hosted by Joe La Puma, Brendan Dunne, and Matt Welty. This week, the three hosts talk about sneakers they want to see come back, like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Nike lifting shoe, the Nike Air Burst, and the Joe-favorite Air Zoom Citizen. They also reflect on the early days of Nike Flyknit, […]

When Kyle Lowry was traded to the Miami Heat last year, Toronto was never able to give the Raptors legend a proper sendoff. Due to both the 2020 bubble and last year’s decision to have the Raptors finish their season in Tampa because of ongoing border restrictions, his return to Toronto only came last night. […]

Shayeann Day-Wilson and her teammates didn’t know each other very well when she arrived at Duke University midway through the 2021-22 preseason. After all, Shayeann had found her way to Duke to play for former WNBA All-Star Kara Lawson at the very last minute after having to decommit to Syracuse University due to a coaching scandal. Then, […]

Toronto apparel brand Peace Collective have just dropped their NBA x TMNT collection, a collab that gives a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles spin on NBA merch.  Featuring NBA teams alongside TMNT characters, the collection includes hoodies, crewnecks, stonewash kids and adult T-shirts, and more. Peace Collective made sure not to forget about their hometown’s team, adding a T-Shirt, a purple Raptors hoodie featuring the ninja turtles […]

The Complex Sneakers Podcast is co-hosted by Joe La Puma, Brendan Dunne, and Matt Welty. This week they welcome Carlos Sanchez, aka SneakGeekz, to the show to talk about his history as one of the first sneaker YouTubers doing unboxings. Sanchez discusses his highs, lows, fake sneakers, Galaxy Foams, and how he got out of […]

The surprising breakup between Nike and Kobe Bryant’s family last year always felt wrong. After the late basketball icon’s Nike contract ended on April 13, 2021, Bryant’s wife Vanessa and the Kobe Bryant Estate decided not to renew the deal after the two sides couldn’t agree to terms. Since then, Nike put a freeze on new […]

On Monday, Nike’s executive leadership discussed the future of its wholesale and direct-to-consumer business on the company’s earnings call for the third quarter of the 2022 fiscal year. Nike CEO John Donahoe set the record straight on Nike’s relationship with Foot Locker, saying the retailer will continue to stock its product. “And one other thing […]

This weekend is Air Max Day, Nike’s celebration of one of its most iconic footwear technologies, but that doesn’t mean that Air Maxes are the only shoes coming out this week. Along with a batch of regional exclusive Air Max 1s dropping across the globe on Saturday, shoppers can also look forward to new colorways […]

When Nike filed a trademark infringement lawsuit in Illinois in January, accusing over 200 online stores of selling counterfeit Nike products, it kept the names of the defendants hidden from public view. The brand’s lawyers argued that alerting the alleged counterfeit peddlers named in the complaint would allow them to destroy evidence of their illicit […]

How certain are the designers at MSCHF, the trolling Brooklyn art collective whose previous footwear includes the Jesus Shoe custom and the hysteria-inducing Satan Shoe sequel, that their latest sneaker will not earn them another lawsuit from Nike? MSCHF chief creative officer Kevin Wiesner recalls that they’d internally cleared the Satan Shoe collaboration with Lil […]