Friday Flashback Converse Legend Anthony Mason PE

Welcome to the Converse Blog's Friday Flashback.  Today we get a rare look at a pair of Converse Player Exclusive basketball shoes. Today we get a look at Anthony Mason's Converse All Star Legend.  He wore these while with Charlotte Hornets in the 1997-1998 season. 

This happened to be the team shoe for that season also and it was based off of Converse Weapon.  It also featured Converse React in the heel.  In fact there were a limited number of shoes released in Celtics colors that replaced the Chuck Taylor signature with the signature of Larry Bird. 

Below you find some pictures of the shoes and some pictures of Mason wearing them.   You can see him going against the Jordan and Dennis Rodman.

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Converse Force 5 XLT Purple/Teal/White aka If Grandmama wore running shoes

It's hard for me to look at anything Purple and Teal and not think of the Charlotte Hornets and therefore Grandmama as well.  So when I first saw these I thought that these would be the shoes she'd wear while training...or some Psycho Trainers....anyway back to these shoes. 

Here a few pictures of the XLT (extra light) version of this classic Converse Running shoe.  Enjoy!!  

I almost forgot, these are exclusive to Korea so you'll have get creative to snag a pair for yourself.

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The Converse Blog's Friday Flashback

Today is a special day here at The Converse Blog. 24 years ago today on 4-4-84 my Mother almost pulled my Father's ear off and I was born. So today to give myself a birthday gift, I will be featuring my favorite basketball team of all time. I am not sure what attracted me to the Charlotte Hornets. The team colors perhaps? Most likely it was Larry "Grandmama" Johnson, Alonzo Morning, Muggsy Bogues, and Dell Curry to name a few. Whatever the reason I was stung by the team from Charlotte. The last few years of the team's existence in Charlotte we would travel to a home game close to my birthday.

I've been to a few Bobcats games, but it's just not the same. So my birthday gift...to myself?.... today is the Converse NBA Charlotte Hornets. That wasn't the real name, but you get the picture.

Long before Adidas was the official supplier of NBA gear, which grants them rights to use NBA logos on footwear, Converse did the same. Part of being the Official shoe the NBA meant that they could use NBA teams logos and they did. They actually made performance shoes with the teams logos and not just casual shoes like Reebok and Adidas have made recently.


Teal and Purple, it doesn't get any better than that, True Story.



Thank you all for coming to the Converse Blog. There are only a few days left in the poll and I totally thought Kentucky would win, but it doesn't look that way. Keep voting though anything could happen.