adidas Player Exclusives: Jerryd Bayless TS Creator

Another recent addition to my “how random can you get” player exclusive sneaker collection, is the adidas TS Creator for Jerryd Bayless. With one of my best friends a huge Blazers fan, there was a lot of optimism with him heading to Portland. Unfortunately, he didn’t pan out the way many Trailblazer fans had hoped … Read more

Player Exclusive adidas Crazy 8 Baylor Bears

I’ve been getting in some decent time behind the camera photographing sneakers lately. I recently added another adidas Player Exclusive to my collection, a Baylor Bears PE of the Crazy 8. Considering I don’t have any kind of lighting setup, I seem to always be disappointed with the way the shots come out. I just … Read more

adidas Player Exclusive Sample: Leandro Barbosa adidas TS Cut Creator

Picked up a couple more adidas Player Exclusive Samples, these ones are Leandro Barbosa’s in an “away” Phoenix Suns colorway. I’m a big fan of the TS Cut Creator. I think it’s an underrated shoe, like most adidas basketball shoes. While many of the PE sneakers from adidas end up in similar colorways to general … Read more

Adidas Special Ops – Guerrilla Marketing at It’s Best

House of Pain x Adidas Campus 80's Mission Accomplished!

Since March I have been hunting for some sneakers, specifically the House of Pain x

Adidas Campus 80’s. When these shoes came out I was able to get my hands on a pair of size 14’s, one size too big. I bought them with the intention of reselling them and using the money to pick up a size 13, because there is now way I can own a pair of shoes and not wear them. Wearing a 14 was out of the question. I was able to resell the 14’s fairly quickly, within a day or two, but unfortunately the one size 13 on eBay had already disappeared. So I added it to my notifications that day so eBay would email me every time a new listing was posted that included House of Pain and Adidas. I was amazed, and entertained at how many people use irrelevant keywords, but I have not seen a single size 13 since March.

After hunting through the pages and pages of for sale posts on all of the sneaker message boards, I thought I would give twitter a try. The following is what I posted…

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