's Friday Flashback: Pro Leather era basketball shoes.

Welcome to the Converse Blog’s Friday Flashback.  I am really excited for today’s post for a few different reasons.  More times than not the Friday Flashback post are my favorite, but my favorite posts are the shoes that I don’t know anything about.  Today I don’t have a name for these shoes, I am not even sure when they released.  However, my best guess is the late 70’s or the early 80’s.  I am also particularly excited about today’s post because I am getting out of down for a few days on a retreat to Gatlinburg, TN.  I am going with the Church I went to while I was in college, so I am going to be seeing a bunch of people I haven’t seen in awhile.  But anyway, enough about me lets get to the shoes.

These shoes have the same midsole and outsole as the Pro Leathers, but has completely different upper.  The upper is made from a Maroon Suede, seriously you never see that.  The extra leather line around the ankle and the Chevron and Star appear to be Tan.  The heel tap also features the fantastic Star in Square logo.  There also seems to be some extra padding around the ankle that looks really comfortable.   These are screaming for a re-issue release. 

 

  

  

 

Kirk Hinrich came up big last night against LeBron James and the other Cavs with a 3 in OT that helped to seal the game.  And Alando Tucker got some burn last night for the Suns.  Hopefully I can find some pics to post sometime. 

The Converse Blog's Saturday Special.

Just a little update for the weekend. I just saw where the 76ers have traded Kyle Korver to the Jazz for Gordan Giricek and a first round draft pick. I was anticipating a trade for one the Converse players on teh 76ers, but I thought it would be Andre Miller. Which of course this could still happen, a trade to the Cavs keeps coming up. For now though we can look forward to having a Converse player on another NBA team. We may see some new PE's of the 099 but more likely we'll see Korver's first PE colorways in the Converse Hops.

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The Converse Blog's Weapon Wednesday

So I am sitting here watching the Magic and Cavs play from China, I can't wait for the season to start. Then I started thinking about the blog and I wanted to share a pair of Weapons that I got last week from the Converse store in Las Vegas. So I got my camera out and began to set up the shoes when I realized that my cable to connect to the computer isn't in the bag. So I am thinking it's back home, so it will just have to wait a little while. So I dug back into the files from Weapons that hlwxpno1 had up on TaoBao.

Patent leather is always a nice way to start off a Weapon, just as long as it's not over done. In this Weapon you'll see black patent leather in the heel and toe cap areas. This is a pretty simple design compared to some of the other samples that I've shown. As you will see, most of the shoe is an Aqua colorway.

Well just a quick hit with the pictures, I am supposed to be doing some Math homework. I am trying to get all my work done so I can get a good spot for College Gameday in Lexington, for the Wildcats and Gators match up. So thanks for stopping by and checking things out, tell all your friends and I see all again on Friday.