How many prep schools are good enough to have their own signature sneakers? NYC’s Rice high school is that good. Ever since FELIPE LOPEZ appeared on a cover of Sports Illustrated when he was still a prep school phenom Rice High School has been one of the nation’s top factories for young cagers.
This weekend NIKE unveiled the Rice H.S. HyperDunk. I can see NIKE going in for a limited edition shoe for a club team like the Riverside Hawks or even the Bronx Gauchos, but a limited edition shoe for a high school? Then again, the NYC Archdicese is so strapped for cash right now they would prA’li let NIKE post their homoerotic ads in the school rectory [ll].
Biggup to C.S. for reminding me that the HyperDunk ads were at DP Dot Com waaay back when. You bitches at NIKE need to cut that check.
The jury is still out on the HyperDunk shoe since I haven’t bought a pair and everyone I know with the shoe hasn’t worn theirs as yet. I’m interested to see if the new NIKE construction technology is all that. It’s been hyped tremendously but I don’t see the products available on a retail level like that. It could be that the NIKE price point has finally saturated most buyers.
I can’t front and say that I am not feeling the shoes, but I can’t bring myself to shop for these at the House of Hoops store. HOH is owned and operated by Foot Locker, but HOH does not accept Foot Locker’s Friends and Families discount coupons. What kind of bullshit is that?!? If I wanted 30% off the wack ass shoes that Foot Locker carries I would just go to Delancey Street and but that shit at regulack price.
GTFOHOH!
I’ve really come around to the Hyperdunks, but the over-saturation of colourways has left me feeling a little irritated. I do like the recent grey colouwray that basically the resembles the Mcflys, but these are OTT for me.
Patent leather on Jordan XIs? Yes please. Otherwise, I wish they’d leave that shit alone.
These are them:
http://www.kixandthecity.com/2008/09/20/unmcfly-nike-hyperdunk-team-bank-colorway-available-now/
the shoes look dope…alot of kats out here in LA are already hooping on the reg in those kicks…i hear decent reports about the durability and performance but the cats here speak more highly of the zoom 3’s…but it COULD be because the lord of all lords KOBE fux with em…