Boston Celtics announced that point guard Kyrie Irving will miss the team’s Tuesday game against the Cleveland Cavaliers with a left hip strain. After missing a few games due to injury over the past week, Irving played in back to back games to kick off February. Irving has averaged 23.8 points and 7.0 assists this season.
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The Kyrie 5 is the latest silhouette to join the Year of the Pig celebration. This special edition Kyrie 5 features a black upper with the Bai Jia Yi pattern finding a home on the the heel as well as the Flytrap midfoot overlay. The Kyrie logo on the tongue is purple and the same color is used on the logo and Kyrie signature found on the red insole. The upper sits atop a black midsole with purple found along the lateral side of the forefoot. A white outsole with…
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The tearing asunder of the Kyrie , Lebron, Kevin Love triumvirate is well-known, although the exact reasons are not. Since Kyrie went easy to Boston, the two have occasionally trade thinly veiled ( and not so thinly-veiled) barbs at each other. The way things ended it would seem like the last thing one could expect to see was, outside of all-star or international play, the two of them running on the same team again and the two of the would want to keep it that way. Right? Well according to…
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This Kyrie 5 draws its inspiration from Kyrie Irving’s favorite television show. The “Friends” edition of the Kyrie 5 sports a black mesh upper with with orange, turquoise and yellow hues finding a home on the Flytrap on the midfoot. White is the color of choice for the Kyrie logo on the tongue as well as the lateral Swoosh logo. Underneath that is the Friends logo(which Kyrie has a tattoo of on his forearm) from the television program. A strip of orange up front breaks up the otherwise black midsole.…
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Earlier today the Boston Celtics announced that star point guard will miss the team’s game against the Minnesota Timberwolves due to irritation in his right eye. Irving stuffed the injury when Marco Belinelli hit him in the eye Monday night in the Celtics’ 120-111 loss to the San Antonio Spurs. ESPN’s Micheal C. Wright reports that Irving rocked sunglasses during his postgame media address following Monday night’s game and apparently it was not to be cool. At the time he provided an update on his condition and he had this…
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We recently showed you the “Little Mountain ” Kyrie 5 PE that honored Kyrie Irving’s late mother. Tonight in their game against the Washington Wizards, he unveiled another player exclusive sneaker. Crated for their game against the Wizards, this Kyrie 5 features an all over galaxy print on the upper with a bright pink Kyrie logo on the white tongue. The white midsole features a pink section that contains the Zoom Air unit and a white outsole completes this shoe’s aesthetic. As this is a PE, there is not currently…
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Though LeBron James told the Cavaliers not to trade Kyrie Irving during the summer of 2017, it appears he made no effort to bring him back into the fold following his request. Joe Vardon of Cleveland.com had this to say on 92.3 The Fan Cleveland: Let’s be honest: LeBron didn’t do anything, until they were going to trade him, to try to keep him here. He didn’t try to talk to him. He didn’t try to mend the fences. It wasn’t until they said, “LeBron, we’re giving him to Boston”…
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This PE was created for Kyrie Irving for the Boston Celtics’ December 8 game against the Chicago Bulls. Featuring a light blue upper, the shoe features a Standing Rock Sioux Tribal seal, a nod to his late mother, Elizabeth Ann Larson, an enrolled member of the tribe. The Lakota name the Standing Rock Sioux tribe gave Kyrie in August, “Little Mountain” appears on the toe box. Yellow and red sections appear in conjunction with the otherwise white midsole and the look is finished off with a white outsole with red…
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Images of Kyrie Irving’s next budget signature shoe have surfaced, the Kyrie Flytrap 2. The shoe features a white upper with a weaved-in Kyrie logo on the lateral side along with a black Swoosh bordered in gold stitching. A gold Kyrie logo is also found on the tongue. Black wraps around the heel over which sits an external heel counter. The upper sits atop a two-tone white and black midsole and white outsole. The Kyrie Flytrap 2 has already debuted overseas but a domestic release is expected in early…
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This version of the Kyrie 5 features a navy blue upper with metallic silver coloring on the lateral and medial side Swooshes and tongue Kyrie logos. On the Venus Flytrap-inspired lockdown system a galaxy pattern is found. On the heel, the all-seeing-eye makes its home. Other visual features include a white midsole and white outsole with multi-colored sections going from forefoot to heel. According to US11, this Kyrie 5 is scheduled for a December 15 release. The sticker price is anticipated to be $130 USD.
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