Nostalgia is a helluva drug….

Missing the times my grandma would sit at the kitchen table with me, small town off the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Eastbay catalog turned to the page of the one pair of basketball shoes she’d let me have every school year even though I officially only ran cross-country & track in jr high thru freshman yr in college….only a casual hooper in between distance training.

Moved up to Minnesota over 20 yrs ago. Imagine my shock when a delivery in early 2020 took me to within a block of the famed Eastbay retail store & warehouse. Didn’t get the chance to go in, as I was on tight schedule. Sad when it shut its doors not long afterwards.

Luckily the love for mid-late ‘90s/early ‘00s signature kicks and the ability to still enjoy playing basketball in them has stayed with me into my early 40’s. I didn’t get my first pairs of modern tech shoes until Sept of last year, but still play a couple times a week mostly in retros.