August 31, 2010

K1X Shorty Fall/Winter Collection Launch

K1X Shorty is a sassy tip of the hat to the buckwild nature of dance culture. Shot in the gritty – yet endlessly creative and poetic – metropolis of Berlin city, this catalogue was created to give you a taste of the new winter collection‘s flavour. Peep more images after the jump!

August 31, 2010

Heads: Pablo Francisco

Pablo Francisco was recently spotted shopping for some new gear during his tour in Norway. The comedian out of Chile stopped by at Basketball Store to pick up our Large Tag 59/50. See Pablo in action after the jump!

August 30, 2010

Steffen Hamann blogs from World Championship!

Germany’s starting PG has had his share of trouble with the refs over at the FIBA Basketball World Championship. Read about this, Germany’s nail biter victory in double OT and much more that goes on behind the scenes in Turkey in his latest blog Sommer Zwanzig Zehn!

August 30, 2010

In the Press: K1X DCAC Patrick Mohr on Lowdown

Lowdown Magazine recently gave sneakerheads and fashion afficionados an exclusive preview of the limited edition Patrick Mohr x K1X DCAC. The shoe was first presented during the Fashionweek 2010 in Berlin and will be available at CLVII Stores (Berlin/Paris) starting September 25th.

August 30, 2010

In the Press: Veilchen unveil new jerseys!

BG Göttingen, the reigning Euro Challenge Champions, unveiled their new Intimidator Jerseys last week as they start preparation for the upcoming Beko BBL season. The new jerseys proved to be a valid asset as the Veilchen won their first two preseason games with ease.

August 27, 2010

SLAM #141

August 25, 2010

Baloncesto Libre!

K1X’ new winter collection “Baloncesto Libre” is our tip of the hat to Mexico’s lucha libre wrestling culture. Bare knuckle, mano-y-mano and caged – like a good old fashioned streetball showdown. After all, the flavor of a roundhouse dropkick comes very close to a nasty facial dunk or ankle breaker when it comes to “shutting [...]

August 24, 2010

Soup of the Day: Mano Y Mano Tee

Today we will give you a sneak peak of our Fall/Winter collection for 2010. With the release just around the corner instant classics like our Mano Y Mano tee will hit streetwear stores near you soon! Keep your eyes glued to this site for more information in the next couple of days!

August 21, 2010

Welcome to the fam: Jukebox

We proudly present the newest member of the Nation of Hoop: Tyler “Jukebox” Ray. At 6’0 Jukebox brings the heat everytime he takes flight. The Canada native is one of the latest additions to the world famous Team Flight Brothers and has proven once and for all that white men can jump. Welcome to the [...]

August 19, 2010

Amare Stoudemire visits Sierra Leone

Amare Stoudemire visited Sierra Leone to build water wells as part of his efforts for his foundation, Each 1, Teach 1. True, this already happened back in 2008 but we never got access to images of his run with the basketball national team of Sierra Leone. Now we accidentally stumbled across these pictures on a [...]

August 17, 2010

LETS PICK UP…

…where we left off: with Cymarshall Law and the HHDS crew. Last Saturday at the infamous Crux Club, our “Hip Hop Don’t Stop” homeys from Berlin City conquered Bavaria’s capital on the second leg of their monthly German club tour. No surprise here: Cy & the gang killed it! Def make sure you check out [...]

August 17, 2010

HELLO BROOKLYN

Brooklyn’s Finest, Darren “The Most Sought After” Phillip spent the summer in NYC. Which basically amounts to patrolling the paint on every major city tournament on the circuit. That in turn, is bad news for pretty much every other player considered a “big fella”… Photo Credit: Kevin Couliau (Asphalt Chronicles)

August 16, 2010

Soup of the Day: Chiefglider Sierra Leone

Today were are bringing back a classic like 2K will bring back Mike from ’84. The Chiefglider was our first basketball shoe and with A-grades from SOLE Collector magazine (amongst others) definitely left its mark on the sneaker scene. Now we literally went to the other side of the world to get you the last [...]

August 16, 2010

Harris: Der Mann in Haus

After recently giving you a sneak preview of the track “Tag & Nacht / Du tust doch nur so” from Harris’ new album “Der Mann im Haus” we can now present the snippet trailer to his much anticipated album which will drop September 24th 2010. Tait eita!

August 14, 2010

In the Press: Reverse Magazine

When our main man Maximilien N’Tary packs his Hello Brooklyn tee and heads to the Big Apple to go all BK on his fashion spread you know he’s gonna deliver. The images he brought back can now be seen in the latest edition of French basketball bible Reverse magazine. Plus: Get an exclusive write-up of [...]

August 10, 2010

HIP HOP DON’T STOP

Last Saturday it was time for some o.g. head-nodding-action at Berlin’s Tube Station. HHDS’ residents San Gabriel and DJ Jumpy lined up Israeli DMC Champion DJ Mesh from Tel Aviv and Cymarshall Law from NYC! Cymarshall Law is wearing our Vichy tag 59/50 and the K1X hip hop don’t stop tee – the result of [...]

August 10, 2010

Soup of the Day: Double Impact V-Neck Tees

Sometimes no means yes. And sometimes less is more. Our new v-neck tees feature 8 fresh color ways for those who like to keep it simple in style. Buy one for the price of two and get a second flavor for free. Like turntables, twins and girlfriends visiting the restroom, good things come in pairs.

August 6, 2010

Taking you back to the old school: In QB with Ron Artest

Back in 2006, we spent a couple of days with Ron Artest in his Queensbridge hood during the off-season. Playing basketball, meeting his fam and getting a taste of where Ron Ron comes from. Take a look…

August 5, 2010

Premier League

Last week marked the “Clash Of The Titans” tour stop in Munich City. “Erste Liga” was the venue and real rap fans made sure not to miss these two heavy-weights of underground rap: San Fran’s Rasco (one half of Cali Agents with Planet Asia) and Detroit’s Guilty Simpson. Rasco just released his 7th album “Global [...]

August 3, 2010

HEADS: KURTIS BLOW

A hip hop legend (aka THE hip hop legend) Kurtis Blow recently dropped by our headquarter to drop some rhymes and tell us about his upcoming “30th Anniversary of the Breaks” Europe Tour, which kicks off this fall. Stay tuned for more soon… In the meantime pay tribute to the first MC to pay tribute [...]

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