September 23rd, 2011

Dirk kam, warf & swishte.

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OK, die ersten vier Würfe zwar nicht, aber alles der Reihe nach…

Mit @chrishimself84 war ich schon um 14:30 am snipes Store und so langsam waren auch schon da die besten Plätze vorm Laden vergeben. Ich musste dann noch was essen gehen und direkt danach haben wir uns auch schon zum Presseeingang begeben. Das erste Highlight war schon direkt, dass wir sogar ein eigenes Schild hatten – neben den ganzen traditionellen Medien wie der Rundschau, dem hr oder auch der BASKET, mit dessen Mitarbeiter Timo wir uns einen Tisch geteilt haben. Der ganze Store war übrigens umgebaut und mit der aktuellen Hyperfuse Collection von NIKE bestückt worden.

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Pünktlich um 16:00 ging es dann auch mit der Pressekonferenz los, in der ein gut gelaunter Nowitzki (@swish41) der Presse Rede und Antwort stand. Auch schon früher, bevor er einen Vertrag hatte, sei NIKE seine Lieblingsmarke gewese (“NIKE for life!”). Auf die Frage, ob er kurz etwas auf einer von einem Medienvertreter mitgebrachten Gitarre spielen wollte, gab es ein kurzes “Na, gib mal her!” Und auch bei den vielen Fans in Deutschland hat er sich dafür bedankt, dass sie sich für seine Spiele die Nächte um die Ohren geschlagen haben, um sich am nächsten Tag durch die Arbeit, Uni oder Schule zu quälen.

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Weiter ging es danach am Wurfautomaten, wo er mit zwei Fans über 3.000€ für die Dirk Nowitzki Stiftung erspielte. Im Anschluss hat Dirk seine Handabdrück in der Wall of Fame des Stores verewigt, wozu er aber die Treppe hoch musste, was von den draußen wartenden Fans mit leutem Raunen quittiert wurde. Nowitzkis Reaktion: Freundlich lächeln, winken & “Tschüß” rufen. :D

Als er damit fertig war und sich die Hände gewaschen hatte, ging es dann natürlich noch nach draußen zu den wartenden Fans (beste Reaktion: “”Alder, tschüüüch…!!! Der ist ja echt so riesig, Alder!!”), aus denen auch zwei gegen Nowitzki werfen durften. Einer davon war der kleine Emil, den Nowitzki auf seine Schultern packte und der so auch einige Treffer erzielen konnte.

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Nowitzki selbst vergab die ersten vier Versuche, netzte danach aber wie gewohnt sicher ein, bevor er auf seine sympathise Art und Weise sehr geduldig über 30 Minuten lang Autogramme schrieb. Dabei hat er laut Johannes, der in der Menge stand und diesen Artikel für Crossover geschrieben hat, auch Pluspunkte durch seinen Small Talk mit den Fans gesammelt. (Von ihm hab ich auch obiges Bild geklaut, aber alles RUN FFM Family!!)

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Alles, was nicht niet- und nagelfest war, wurde ihm unter die Nase gehalten. Darunter sogar eine Ralph Lauren Sporttasche (LOL!!!), aber auch ein LeBron Schuh (ARE YOU FREAKING SERIOUS????), wie im Bild zu sehen.

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Das Ganze gibt es jetzt noch knackig verpackt in bewegten Bildern in Chris’ VLOG zu sehen, bis dann aber allerdings alle Batterien aufgebraucht waren.

Mehr Bilder gibt es auch bei unseren Flickr-Accounts (Chris/Andi). Vielen Dank an dieser Stelle nochmals an Jana von snipes, die bewiesen hat, dass sie auch ein Herz für Blogs hat :)

Und hier noch ein paar der Autogramme…

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Insgesamt war es wirklich eine sehr coole Veranstaltung und ein Erlebnis Nowitzki in unserer Stadt zu haben. In Frankfurt, wo sonst!!!

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

September 20th, 2011

DIRK KOMMT. Nach Frankfurt! Zum Snipes!!

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Ihr seht es schon und habt es sicher schon gehört, aber man kann es nicht oft genug wiederholen: DIRK KOMMT. Der beste deutsche Basketballspieler, ein Weltklassesportler und vor allem ein großer Sportsmann gibt sich im Frankfurter Snipes-Laden (Schäfergasse 6-8) die Ehre.

Erwartet wird Dirk um 16:00 und das Programm sieht vor, dass Dirk in der Filiale seine Lieblingsstyles aus der aktuellen NIKE Sportswear Hyperfuse Collection vorstellt, sich auf der “Wall of Fame” verewigt und auch eine Pressekonferenz abhält. Vor dem Laden wird Nowitzki gemeinsam mit den Gewinnern des Meet & Greet-Gewinnspiels (Teilnahme nur noch heute möglich!!!) möglichst viele Treffer am einem Wurfautomaten für einen wohltätigen Zweck erzielen wollen und sicherlich auch einige Autogramme verteilen.

Oh, und amtierender NBA-Champion ist er ja halt auch noch. :)

Also Frankfurt, worauf warten?? Lasst uns ihm unsere Wertschätzung zeigen!

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

P.S.: Heute ist er auch schon um 22:00 auf SPORT1 im Star Talk, der auf der IAA in Frankfurt aufgenommen wurde, zu Gast!

 

June 13th, 2011

Dallas Mavericks Championship Vlog

W00000T ! Heres a little vlog from yesterdays game 6, the most epic championship night ever! I feel happy for the Mavericks, especially for Dirk Nowitzki and Jason Kidd to be scratched off that list of (future) hall of famers without a championship title. They really deserved it !

Hope you’ll enjoy watching another edition of random vloggity, watch it all the way to the end to get a little bonus footage, its worth it haha ;)

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cheers to all the Mavs fans in Germany!
Chris / @chrishimself84

June 13th, 2011

The German Wunderkind did it!

I just returned home from watching the game with the homies!!! Man, we had a blast. This series could’ve gone on forever, but in the Dallas Mavericks we have a true championship team, that came a long way to finally be on top! Great to see all those players get their first ring.

For us over here, it’s obviously very special because of Dirk Nowitzki. The first German to win an NBA title. And it’s crazy, that he’s just a kid, that grew up just a one hour drive away from Frankfurt, just behind the border to Bavaria, and that a few people, that I got to know through basketbal, even have crossed their ways with him either in the youth teams, as coaches or on the national team. And now he’s NBA Champ and on a little sidenote MVP of the Finals.

This gives me the opportunity to finally unveil this little gem.

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Yeah, it’s a poster with his name on it! But look again…

He might be the guy in the back waiting to check into the game, but he certainly ain’t the dark-haired guy finishing with the layup nor did he ever wear #11!!!

It must have been the eraly 2000s when I found this poster at our local SPORT LOEBL store. I just had to buy it. I didn’t even ask the staff or told them, that there was something completely wrong with this poster.

In 2003 Dirk played with the German national team here in Frankfurt against Turkey. After the game the court was invaded by the masses. I was a part of it, as I wanted his signature on it. Or at least, that he would notice, that something is wrong. But he was so busy getting his autograph on every single item, that he didn’t even look at what he was signing.

So that’s really his autograph right there above the knees.

Long story short: CONGRATS, DIRK! HARD WORK PAYS OFF!! BE PROUD, GERMANY!!!

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

 

May 3rd, 2011

Gilbert Arenas is the true Sneaker Champ.

I have really been a Gilbert Arenas fan since his days as a Golden State Warrior, as soon as I read a story about him growing up under harsh circumstances, namely sleeping for a period of time in the car of his dad, about him not getting any respect, when he entered college and made it to the NBA (thus choosing the number 0, because that’s the amount of minutes that “everyone” thought he would get). He even felt he was so bad (WHILE HE WAS ALREADY AN NBA PLAYER!), that he joined a local church league in San Francisco. Until the Warriors got word of it, of course. Then in his Wizard days he hit a whole array of incredible buzzer beaters with his not-to-be-destroyed confidence, he also had his super entertaining blog on NBA.com, his own adidas signature sneakers and so on.

Then came the troubles in the last few years culminating in a gun incident, and so he entered the season without a shoe deal, but that way he was able to rock whatever dope kicks he wanted to. This included lots of J’s (like the Space Jams pictured below) and even a pair of Dolce&Gabbana shoes in a game against the Lakers.

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That’s the biggest dream for a sneaker head to showcase them at that stage, so even if his team got eliminated from the Playoffs, this makes him the ultimate SNEAKER CHAMP. That’s also his twitter name by the way: @thesneakerchamp and it’s all about the sneakers!!! You can also check which sneakers he wore for every game during the 2010-2011 NBA season on this site. Also SLAMonline.com has a nice gallery here.

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And all of this really makes him someone to absolutely cheer for. At least to me.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

 

April 10th, 2011

American Made.

We always been Adam Tensta fans since we got to know his music through THE HUNDREDS blog, but since running into him in Frankfurt last year at a gas station, we are also absolute fans of him as a person.

So I was really stoked to see this little series by NIKE Sportswear Sweden, in which he meets up with Jonas Jerebko, the first Swedish player in the NBA. Making it to the NBA alone is incredible, but imagine to the first one of your country, it must be over the top!

In the 1st episode Adam flies to Kinna, Jonas’ hometown, is shown around by Jonas’ dad & checks out some pictures of the career of Sweden’s first NBA player to see how he slowly grew up into an NBA player.

Now, in Episode 2 Adam made his way to Detroit, where Jonas is playing with the Pistons. They are talking about the adjustment Jonas had to made, his first season, his injury, performing in front of audiences & crazy schedules.

In the 3rd episode Adam meets up with Juan Atkins, who was one of the people to help lay the foundations in the 1980s for Detroit Techno as it is known today. They are sharing their experiences on what good record feels like, but also discussing how the music business has changed the way you have to get yourself out there as an artist in this day & age with the digital revolution taking over.

In Episode 4 Adam & Jonas meet up in Stockholm to talk about their begginings, their struggles and also their goals.

The highligh of this series was the American Made event, that was basically a basketball tournament with an ensuing party. Dope!!!

But… was this really the footage of the 3 point contest?!??? And their Destroyer Jackets are fucking überdope!!! I couldn’t stop staring at those…!

It would also defintely be nice to see this kind of cool & interesting stuff happen in Germany, too.

As a little bonus you might like this video of Adam performing “They Wanna Know” in front of the last pieces of the Berlin Wall.

Hope you enjoyed it.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

February 18th, 2011

All Star Weekend, right???

OK, so I’m doing me right now (I guess that’s the appropriate saying these days), because my tests at university are coming up next week, but judging from some tweets and also this post by the homie Neil Armstrong announcing some festivities, it is NBA All Star Weekend in L.A., right???

Well, I don’t get excited for the game anymore as I used to, but there is always still the dunk contest. And with Blake Griffin in it (just check this new vid of him! Ouch!!!) I’m pretty excited about that. But whatever he does in this contest, his in-game dunks are still the shit to me, because he’s doing all this incredible stuff in an actual GAME!!!!

Speaking of dunk contests: While some mascots like RUN FFM, some others just like to dunk like Mr. Boom Tho in the Korean dunk contest.

Boom Tho is basically a movement, that is mostly represented by Rod Benson, a long time, great and very creative blogger, who happens to play basketball professionally. If you are into the behind-the-scenes basketball & overall funny things, I highly recommend to check his blog.

BOOM!

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Also speaking of DJ Neil Armstrong, some weeks ago I clicked through his YouTube channel and found these videos of him DJing at the Rookie Photoshoot the NBA does in NYC before each season. OK, you won’t see him DJing in those videos, but you can see, how to future NBA players do at the decks as he is giving them some lessons.

To Neil & everyone out in L.A. a great All Start Weekend and of course also to those, that are losing sleep while watching it in front of the TV. :)

(This just in: With NBA League Pass you can watch it all for free – at least in Germany. Thanks for the heads up, Sid.)

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

 

January 7th, 2011

Michael Jordan: Invincible.

I don’t think I need to say anything other than it’s gonna be in theaters this year…!

Must see.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

(via: Party&Bullshit Blog)

 

March 14th, 2010

Air Jordan Madness Infrared VI Pack

This year is incredible so far for Jordan Brand with all the different retro releases like the oreos, motorsports, AJKO’s etc. but this one is really a must buy.

There has been alot of rumors around the web but now I think  its official that Jordan Brand will release an Air Jordan VI Infrared Pack for June 2010.

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Chrishimself

Information via. SneakerNews.com
Pictures via. Kixclusive

February 18th, 2010

Baron Davis goes 8bit – Boom Dizzle Dribble by Li Ning

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Some might have seen the video of Baron Davis dribbling his way through New York City heres the new video with a nice 8bit retrogame touch to it dribbling and anklebreaking all the way through Shanghai,China!!.

Chrishimself

February 6th, 2010

Nike Zoom Kobe V x Bruce Lee

Inspired by the suit that Bruce Lee wears in Game of Death and the scratch known from Enter the Dragon Nike comes out with this new release of the Zoom Kobe V.

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I especially like the promoshots that Nike designed with Kobe Bryant resembling the oldschool Bruce Lee movie posters.

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via. freshness

Chrishimelf

January 14th, 2010

B-Diddy runs New York City.

It seems like you can’t escape New York. And you may not escape Chinese brand Li-Ning in the near future, as they already signed NBA players Shaquille O’Neal, Baron Davis and Jose Calderon. But the honor of premiering the first Chinese brand on an NBA court belongs to Damon Jones, who was with the Cleveland Cavaliers at that time.

This is an awesome video of Baron Davis running through New York City along with his basketball. I remember that he tweeted all the time during this day and let people know where he’s gonna be. So, you may follow him (@Baron_Davis), but you can follow his beard (@boomsbeard) as well. Also some msic artists are featured in this video. Common shows some nice handles, while Jim Jones is BAAALLLLLLIIIIINNNNGGGGGGGG!!!!

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

P.S.: BOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!

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