SOLE COLLECTOR: Sneakers

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So some things went down over this long holiday weekend. Iverson failed to show up for practice one day. Is it that big of news? No, not really, who’s surprised by this? He did bust out some nice Answer XIIs though against the Blazers this weekend. Speaking of the Blazers, Greg Oden cut his hair, lined up and cut that beard thing he had going, and he now doesn’t look like the “Wise Lebron” vinyl figurine. Lets take a look at some pics with some goodies along the way.

Amare Stoudemire goes to work in some fresh Nike Hyperdunks.

Melo attempts to give the hoop an offering in the Air Jordan Melo M5.

D.J. Augustin gets the up & under in some fresh looking Air Jordan Jumpman Team Pro.

Richard “The Mask” Hamilton gets in on the Team Pro action too.

Iverson Superman’ing that ball in the Reebok Answer XII.

J.J. Redick saves the ball from out of bounds with a very awkward facial expression and Nike BB IIs on his feet.

Jose gets extra gangsta with a three point line gang sign! “What, I wear Li Ning!”

Shout outs to Nene wearing the adidas Thrillrahna. We appreciate Nene’s responses on this blog.

Nick Young is doing damage with his footwork this season. He’s rocking the Nike Air Penny 2 Retros here!

Greg Oden getting that double double in the Nike Powermax.

Travis Outlaw skies for the block in a slick pair of adidas TS Commanders.

Chris Paul only does work and although he couldn’t get a win this night against the Blazers, he did bring out the Air Jordan XX3 UNC edition of the Legacy Series. They still have some sizes left in two of the three colorways that dropped Friday @ Eastbay.

Rudy Gay goes up in his Nike Blue Chip.

So I just really wanted to put this pic up of Vladimir rocking the sunglasses indoors. I thought you had to be sitting sideline at a Lakers game to be that “G.” He is rocking Hyperdunks though!

Man, the Lakers are killing this year but could they be pushing themselves too hard, too fast? Check this pic out, all four guys are iced up in the 4th quarter! I personally would like to see them struggle a little bit, it’s good for a team to. Anyway this is a funny pic and of course some nice Nike joints are on the bottoms of their feet.

Explains itself!