All for one, one for all: Part IV - Brooklyn Nets

Brooklyn. The place where basketball truly grew. It's so easy to find a shoe for the Brooklyn Nets, as their colors are black and white. Black. And white. I could do just about ANYTHING with that. Well, except for like the Jordan XII "Bin23". Those are ugly. Try doing anything with those.

The Nets, for being so recently updated in terms of stadium, logo, colors, owners, image, etc. have an EXTREMELY old team. Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Joe Johnson, Deron Williams. Brook Lopez is their only real youth.

But for being old, they hold their own. With visionary new owners, it's going to be fun watching what image the Nets choose to don in the coming years.

But as far as shoes are concerned, I've made up my mind.

My choice is the Nike Air Maestro, just like the Fab Five wore back in the day. All the way from 1992-93, these bad boys still look clean today. And with this crisp black and white colorway, the Nets would be all set for the Casino Royale- er, I mean, Barclays Center.

Honorable mention to the Nike Zoom Kobe VIII "What the Kobe", because can you imagine the look of those with the black and white uniforms? My, oh my. It's a shame I couldn't make myself choose them.

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All for one, one for all: Part III - Boston Celtics

Ahhh, the Boston Celtics. One of the most storied teams in the NBA's fine lineage. With greats such as Bill Russell, Larry Bird, and Bob Cousy coming to mind, not many teams carry the weight the Celtics do.

Boston has always stuck to a strict green and white color scheme, donning black or gold accents on some alternate uniforms in the more recent years.

The Celtics have had their struggles since winning a title in 2008; losing Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, and Ray Allen sure didn't help.

But Rajon Rondo has stayed through it all, saving the franchise from certain collapse. And though the team represents a very young, building feel, I went with a classic for this team.

I had to! With such history, it was only right to pick the Converse Star Tech "Green". Such a storied team, such a storied shoe. It's great to just reminisce sometimes, and this clean colorway represents a lot concerning the way the Celtics carry themselves as a franchise.

Honorable mention to all Lebron "Dunkman" and "SVSM" colorways. There were quite a few others with a predominately neon green color that I considered, but couldn't bring myself to choose.

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All for one, one for all: Part II - Atlanta Hawks

Well, here it is! The first team of the series - the Atlanta Hawks.

The Hawks have it rough this year, recently losing essentially all of their talent in Josh Smith, Joe Johnson, and Jamal Crawford. Well, at least they still have Elton Brand. They might have to use a wheelchair to get him from game to game, but he's there.

All jokes aside, the Hawks have a reasonable amount of young talent in Paul Millsap, Al Horford, and Jeff Teague. And they have Kyle Korver, who manages to set some sort of strange record every now and then.

Anyways, lets get to the shoes. Fun part, right?

Though at first their colors of navy and cardinal seem a little outlandish, but then I thought about Team USA. So easy, a caveman could do it.

My pick is the Nike Air More Uptempo "Olympic", which Scottie Pippen wore in the 1996 games. Nothing like this shoe in the world.

The Jordan VII "Olympic" and VI "Olympic" get the honorable mentions, the reason they didn't take the cake is that this list will have plenty of Jordans; I like mixing it up, and that the gold accents of the VII don't fit perfectly to the Hawks colors.

Good thing there's four more teams with the same colors. I have a lot of other picks.

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All for one, one for all: Part I - Introduction

Wow, it sure has been a while. I dropped the ball on writing, that's for sure. Not much to say other than that I've been busy with being a student. You know how it is. School, sleep, repeat. Factor in playing basketball and you have all the makings for no free time.

But in the interest of motivating myself, I decided to start a new series. Titled "All for one, one for all", this will be a series in which I select a shoe that was released to the public for buying that has a colorway pertaining to whatever team it's turn is.

For instance, if the team selected was the Bulls, I could pick the original Air Jordan I in the "Bred" colorway, and then I would throw in a picture for reference. I will be going in alphabetical order (by city, not mascot).

This series will be easy at some points (Bulls) and difficult at others (Bucks). But I look forward to the challenge of researching shoes and coming up with a bit of character behind each decision. Here goes nothing!

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