For European sneakerheads, it’s often feast or famine.  Sure, there are plenty of Euro-exclusives (Air Max Lights, anyone?), but sometimes, the Old World gets left in the cold when it comes to availability.  No such (bad) luck this time, as NikeLebron.net reports that “pretty much all European countries have [the Nike Air Max LeBron VII Dunkman] available at their online NikeStore.”  They’re up for 160 Euros, so about $220 USD, so feel free to try your luck at hooking up a pair or two.

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If you’ve watched much Seinfeld, seeing Jason Alexander in the Jenny Craig banner ads floating around the web probably crack you up.  His character George Costanza is probably the most famous ‘person’ to don the Nike Cortez, but it’s more than just a few foibles on camera that kept the Cortez on retail shelves for about 35 years now.  Nike Sportswear recently got up with designers from Shanghai’s W+K to celebrate the occasion, commissioning a series of paintings depicting various renditions of the iconic ridge-soled runner.  From 1975′s original to 2010′s insane Year of the Tiger package, take a look at W+K behind the scenes in more photos after the jump.  via FRESHNESS

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Many (if not all) active NBA players today grew up watching MJ dominate in the 90′s and could quite possibly credit him as the driving force behind their success. We’ve seen tons of PEs around the league but some have dipped into their own collections and worn their own pairs of crisp Jordans in games. Recently, Bobby Brown of the Clippers wore the Air Jordan VI Carmine, but Louis Williams out of the Philly camp has been digging a bit deeper into his stash as he wore the Air Jordan X (10) Retro Red Steel in recent games. There’s quite a history behind the Air Jordan X (it being designed with MJ’s retirement in mind, the design itself not even being fully supported by Jordan himself), but the Red Steel Jordan X stands as one of my personal faves from 2005. via Yahoo Sports.

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Even though Los Angeles based brand, Crooks & Castles, has began to create their own footwear they’ve still managed to find time to collaborate with Vans on a new Chukka Boot that uses luxurious Black Epi Leather. This pair is one of two pairs that Crooks & Castles and Vans collaborated on, the other being the Moda Hi, which also uses the same Black Epi Leather and Crooks branding on the shoe’s tongue. The Crooks & Castles x Vans Chukka Boot will be released this Friday, February 12th, at both Crooks & Castles’ locations. via Crooks & Castles

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Sneaker News hit you up with a bunch of images of basketball shoes from other up-and-coming brands, one of them being Li Ning. The company was founded by Li Ning, an Olympic national hero of China, and his company of the same name will make its official American debut this coming Monday in Portland, where they have opened up their U.S. headquarters. One of Li Ning’s headlining endorsees is Baron Davis, who has picked up the “Beardman” nickname, as well as a signature shoe, the Li Ning BD Doom. The shoe will release this Monday with the first 50 BD Doom buyers also receiving a Beardman vinyl toy figurine autographed by B-Diddy himself. If you’ll be in the Portland area next week, stop by and get yours. More info after the jump.

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Mention lobsters (of any colour) and skateboarding sneakers, and 99 guys out of 100 are going to picture Boston’s Concepts in June.  That one remaining guy, probably knows his Lobsters front to back, and might also know that Converse Skateboarding has the crustacean curiously embroidered into the back of their tongue tags.  It’s not immediately clear ‘what’s up with that’, but it adds another layer of mystique to this burgeoning sublabel.  Click the jump below for an up close look at the entire Cons line, including some of the details you probably didn’t know were there.  via IST

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All four pairs of Nike Air Griffey Max 1s that retroed last year were met with huge commercial success.  The Fresh Water colourway was so popular, we saw a bunch of other Nike Classics in the same palette.  Now look, Fresh Water is a 10 in terms of colourway quality, but this right here might go down as second to only the OG Black/Teal joints from ’96.

What we’re referring to as the grey/teal AGM1 actually looks more like an electric blue when compared to the significantly-greener OG shade, but that’s what happens when you’re somewhere in between blue and green.  You could probably get away with calling it turquoise too, but the key here is that super smooth cool grey nubuck upper.  With these dropping as a quickstrike on February 20th and the CG Air Max LeBron VII Pack to drop soon thereafter (expect to see a lot of them during March Madness), looks it will indeed be cool for about six more weeks.  via taobao/NK.

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Los Angeles’ UNDFTD and Gourmet worked together on this pair of Gourmet Quatro sneakers which will be released on Saturday, February 16th at all US UNDFTD chapter stores and their online store. Originally previewed back in August of last year, this pair marks the first collaboration between the two West Coast brands. The UNDFTD x Gourmet Quatro features a debossed UNDFTD Strikes logo on the upper while the rest of the shoe remains subtle outside of the dark colored crepe outsole. Pick these up on Saturday at UNDFTD.

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If your name is Bobby Brown, you probably have a lot of heat on you. No, not if you’re the wife-beating, narcotics-finagling has-been singer, but the LA Clippers guard who has been recently turning heads and raising eyebrows of Jordan-lovers across the country. Here are some images from yesterday’s absolutely riveting showdown between the Clippers and the Utah Jazz, with Bobby Brown wearing a pair of the Air Jordan VI (6) Retro Carmine that released in 2008. Brown wore the VIs during the heat-filled NBA Weekend in which we saw a number of PEs and new kicks, so it could be possible that this probable NBA shoehead will wear some other Jordan heat in the upcoming games. via Yahoo Sports.

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The most recent Bread & Butter tradeshow in Berlin gave us a sneak peek at a new Nike Air Classic BW.  Looks like the clean mix of white and black with neptune blue accents was so dope, Nike added it to an upcoming Air Max 90 as well.  Each pair has its own distinctive Air bubble cushion framed in the sapphire-like shade of blue, both of which look good enough that you might have a tough choice on your hands.  These should be out later this year, so take some time to save up and check with Sneaker News for updates.  via SM

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About one month ago, at the turn of the New Year, Sneaker News gave you a sneak-peek at an upcoming model from the Nike HTM 2 line – a collection originated from the veritable minds of Hiroshi Fujiwara, Tinker Hatfield, and Mark Parker. The Free-soled, Presto-uppered, almost Mid-cut shoe featured a neat HTM 2 logo on the heel and a swoosh on the upper that appeared as if it was spraypainted through a stencil cut-out. Here are some extra pictures of the Nike HTM2 “Runboot” as it’s now being named; It being worn may provide you with a better idea of how they’d look on your own feet. Expect this colourway along with other colourways designed by the legendary Hatfield and Parker to drop sometime in this already heat-filled jam-packed year. via honeyee.

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