Hypebeast got the info on these, possibly the illest olympic themed kicks ever.

In commemoration of USA Basketball’s recent four-game friendly set in preparation of the Beijing Olympics, USA Basketball sponsors Nike created three special make-ups of signature shoes for big NBA star’s Carmelo Anthony, LeBron James and Kobe Bryant. Shoes include the much talked about Hyperdunk for Kobe, the Zoom Soldier II PE for LeBron James and Olympia Supreme PE. All the shoes share the same unifying theme of mixing the US National Team colors alongside the significance of playing in China with the use of various Chinese characters.

For the bonus, I might have to really go apeshit on somebody over these.

Wow. You KNOW I’m pissed today. Friday the 13th…The Lakers lose after a 24 point lead. On some Spurs shit. C’mon. And to top that off, ZS was down for 18 hours! BTW, I appreciate all of the emails, IMs, and txts I got saying that my site was down. I’m running too much on this site. Had to slim it down. Might be moving soon…so if things seem a bit weird, you know the kid is moving servers.

I’m going to blame Pau on this one. The whole team really. But I seen some dumb things happen. Like not catching the ball!!! And going up on some weak shit. I blame Pau and Odom on that last joint. Don’t get me wrong Odom got biz in the 1st, but he fizzled out. When you are 7ft and 6′10 respectively, there is no need for lay-ups. Have you ever seen Barkley or Kemp or Ewing’s knees do any lay-ups? NO. They flushed that shit.

I knew this was gonna happen tho…

Because before the game started Mike Breen’s goatee put up a graphic that said Lakers were 9 - 0 at home during the playoffs and the last time Mike Breen’s goatee saw them lose at home was in March. And then what…perform the BIGGEST comeback loss in NBA Playoff History??!!???!? THAT IS OVALTINE ON MIKE BREEN’S FACE! So not the Magnum PI.

Pee in the bed like Kobe said. Pee.

Take a breather from the Final Four for some NBA education.

I didn’t say it. But scoring all of those points (four 50-pt. games in a row) on your favorite no-name millionaire ballers is enough to give the man the mvp this year.

“Kobe Bryant Is Better Than Michael Jordan.” — Jemele Hill, ESPN

The shame of it is that Kobe might finish his career without a MVP, even though his ability can be compared only to that of Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain. All this time we’ve been looking for a player who is better than Jordan, but most of us can’t get beyond whether we like or dislike Kobe as a person to recognize his contributions to the game.

word?

This will go down as one of those arguments that will last for generations. We’ll be talking to our kids about it. Our friends about it. It will even start fights. GI joe vs. Cobra. Tupac Vs. Biggie. East Coast Vs. West Coast. Mac vs. Windows vs. Linux. Ali vs. Frasier. Zillz Vs. Your GF’s Daddy.

I bet somewhere MJ was watching Patrick Ewing in the stands shaking hands with whitefolks as his son held the game ending rebound. MJ then flips to Sportscenter to see Kobe doing all of this. Shaking his head…
But while all of you naysayers daydream that Kobe isn’t supposed to be THAT good…

Hell, I bet MJ is at that secret location swimming in his money bin.