Euroleague Final Four: Last chance to win NIKEiD sneakers
May 1, 2008
As the Final Four approaches, so does the deadline for the NIKEiD contest. In case you haven’t seen the contest, here is a short explanation again:
NIKEiD and BallinEurope are having a contest, where you design your own NIKEiD sneakers. You just have to send the design to nikeid@ballineurope.com. During the next week, we will select the best design and the winner will get his pair of NIKEiD sneakers sent home. Too much work? Well, if you want some - come get some!
We have received about 100 designs so far and have collected them all in one folder. The last design must be sent in by Friday, 6.30pm when the first Semifinal of the Euroleague Final Four tips off.
Have fun designing!
Win a pair of NIKEiD Basketball sneakers
April 14, 2008
Identify yourself, your style, your game, with NIKEiD. An amazing program that allows you to choose!
Design your shoes, clothing, and equipment to match your style or improve your game. NIKEiD allows you to put that personal touch from head to toe, sweatband to shoe.
After comfort, every basketball player wants to look good, here you can get comfort and style, by getting shoes that match your outfit or team colors. NIKEiD wants to help us add a little swagger to our step, so why not let them help?
Sounds like advertising? Want to stop reading? Well, your loss. BallinEurope and NIKEiD is giving away a free pair of NIKE Zoom BB II iD.
Of course we want to make a little contest and find the best design to give these sneakers away. Just design your personal sneaker at NIKEiD.com and send the design to NIKEiD@ballineurope.com (Subject: NIKEiD)
A little hint - since this is BallinEurope - if you manage to design a sneaker that represents Europe - your chances of winning will improve greatly!
Oh, I also did my very own design - what you think?
New K1X basketball sneakers
March 8, 2008
The basketball brand K1X might be known to most of the European basketball fans, players and sneakerheads, while the 1993 founded company out of Munich just begins to conquer the American market. They also started a k1x blog, that talks about their players like Corey “homicide Williams, who just signed with Cibona Zagreb. Just in case you are looking for the category “girls and basketball” the k1x blog might be the place to be.K1X is also within the Euroleague. You might have seen Ademola Okulaja, Fabio die Bella, Jonas Maciulis and of course NBA player Ron Artest wearing k1x basketball shoes.
A few days ago the marketing department of k1x sent us a few pictures of their new sneaker called k1x chiefgilder II. The first edition of the Chiefglider came out in as many as 20 different colors and styles and was very successful in Europe. IN an interview with the sneaker site kickology.net, founder Chris Grosse talked about the start with the Chiefglider:
Was designing and developing your own shoe something that you’d been thinking about for a long time?
Chris: I’ve known Pete for a long time and he is a true baller. He’s had hoops shoe ideas spinning around his head for the longest time. But he worked for Puma and had to design soccer shoes and car racing styles (big in Europe). When I promised him that we were actually going to make a performance basketball shoe if he came up with a promising concept, he worked on it day and night. He has put years of ideas and concepts into the Chiefglider. He told me a dream came true for him when we finally got started.
So why a new version of the Chiefglider? Performance is the focus with that sneaker. K1X added “memory foam” to give you extra fitting and support at the heel. They also redesigned the cushioning of the shoe.
Within the next weeks we will try to cover present a few more companies out of Europe that actually make their own basketball performance sneakers. For now, here are the preview pictures of the new K1X Chiefglider II. What is your experience with K1X so far?
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Jordan Basketball shoes in Europe?
March 1, 2008
I grew up in the Jordan era and have/had about 10 pairs of different Jordans - just to be cool and be able to fly like Mike. I was lucky to get the famous Jordan XI (click here if the numbers don’t say anything to you) and I wish, I never wore the shoes now..
Lately I have been looking around in Europe again for Jordans - since I always thought there is no way to get Jordans in the U.S. since everybody sleeps in front of the stores to get those shoes (according to a CNN documentary on NIKE’s way to the top).
On every trip I took through Europe the last few weeks I checked out the footlockers and other stores that looked like they would carry Micheal Jordan sneakers and yes you can buy Jordans! The latest thing I saw was the unbelievable pack of two Jordans, called Nike Air Jordan Collezione Countdown Pack, for 300 EUR - hold on - since the Euro is worth 1,50 Dollars starting today this would be $450.
Well you get these two pair of shoes and they are a limited edition so better pull out those Euros. (side-note: the price in the United States for this pack is $420 equal to 280 EUR - considering the shipping costs to Europe a fair deal.
But there is more to come. The new Nike Air Jordan 23 XXIII XX3. Ray Allen was the first to wear these new Jordans at the All Star Game in New Orleans and after a LONG period of not liking new Jordans I really liked that new pair of basketball sneakers.
Yes, I also checked the local stores and these shoes are available in Europe - for 200 EUR a pair. Yes you heard right. 200 Euros equal to 300 US Dollars. What can you buy for 300 Dollars? What about 20! pairs of Stephon Marbury’s Starbury? If you haven’t heard about the Marbury’s shoe line - It is basically a high performance shoe for the price of $15.
But back to the Air Jordan XX3 - In the United States this sneaker is being sold for about $185 - do the math: 123 Euros.
So who will buy this - I must say nice looking sneaker - for the, in my mind most expensive sneaker ever?
I have talked to some companies that were selling the Brand Jordan in Europe and really tried to market the brand. After about a year they told me that Basketball - especially Jordan gear is only bought by “sneaker heads” and they will stop selling it.
If you ask me now why nobody else buys these shoes - check back to see the price of that XX3 ..
Team of heroes - NIKE goes Europe
February 29, 2008
The last 30 minutes or so I have been sitting here with an open mouth, not really knowing if I should believe what my eyes see. It is all about Maccabi Tel Aviv. Read more
Custom made sneaker for Sarunas Jasikevicius
February 18, 2008
Just got an interesting e-mail from the Greek head of product management containing the new shoe custom made just for Saras. We know that Saras already has the Gilbert Arenas “Panathinaikos” version right now but this new Adidas basketball sneaker is not yet released.
Here you go:
A new pair of shoes for Tiago Splitter…
January 4, 2008
…is pretty much what you only need to work on to get a free pair of Nike ID.
