ÿþI love everything about the adidas 350 Beluga colorway of the adidas Yeezy Boost 350 V2 except for one glaring sore spot: the  SPLY-350 wording on the Solar Red stripe. Without the branding, the shoe is almost perfect. With it, it s a pair I want to wear all the time but can t because the damn thing is so annoying. I would love to own a  fixed or sample version that didn t have the wording on there, but I also wouldn t want adidas to come at me and say  please return your Belugas and we ll send you the new version either.

Besides the AF1 Ultra Flyknits, the only pairs of kicks I ve worn more this year are my mismatched Internationalists and a handful of adidas Ultra Boosts. It s adidas adios all about being #TeamComfy these days and in a year where I was constantly surprised  and not always in a good way  one of the biggest for me was that I would actually physically hand over cash to a retailer to adidas adizero cleats buy a pair of Air Force 1s. It s not something I expected to do in 2016.

See what we mean? Although the hype for this has more to do with there being only 200 pairs total out there, it still represents the tried and true colors that we demand in our kicks. And just for the record, adidas Originals, a Kicks On Fire x adidas NMD would be also be pretty cool. Hint, hint, hint& I know we all cursed the moon when alleged backdoored pairs started making their way to the adidas adizero football cleats Internets, but congrats if you were able to score a pair to actually wear out at retail.

While I bristle at the thought of camo still being relevant in this day and age, I m happy to see early 2000s staples like BAPE still maintain relevance this decade. Bringing them together with the adidas NMD was a masterstroke of marketing on both sides.You might think the adidas City Sock is a little too simple for it s own good, but think of the blank Primeknit upper as just that, a blank canvas where anything is possible.

Harden calls his signature shoe a masterpiece. Let s hope for the sake of real competition among the brands that the public takes notice and justifies that claim.This is not some marketing ploy to get people who hate him to suddenly love him, this is how Kobe really feels . His announcement to retire was the rare moment of selflessness. If he was still killing it like in 2009, he would have just exited stage left without saying a adidas adv word but leaving a trail of burned bridges courtesy of his haters.

Hell, Kobe himself went through a similar phase when he was younger, smirking and playing with kids in McDonald s commercials and growing the afro while repping adidas in an attempt to stand out. But as the championships came and his personal problems were brought into the limelight, he took control in a way that nobody expected. He embraced the villain that LeBron tried to in his first year in Miami but couldn t go through with; and Kobe s been doing it for over a decade now.