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Seattle's "Rain" Gods, The Story of Sean Kemp and Kamikaze II Unboxed

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Seattle's "Rain" Gods, The Story of Sean Kemp and Kamikaze II Unboxed

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Seattle's "Rain" Gods, The Story of Sean Kemp and Kamikaze II Unboxed

Speaking of Reebok, everyone knows Iverson, but everyone knows its other star - Sean Kemp. Younger fans may not know it, but older fans should be familiar with the name. Every time I make a Reebok style, it's like exposing my own age...

Seattle's "Rain" Gods, The Story of Sean Kemp and Kamikaze II Unboxed

As the first generation of violent strikers, the representative of the dunk and never go to the basket, was given the nickname ReignMan, meaning the ruler, because Reign and Rain are homophones and Seattle often rains, plus he himself also likes Seattle wet and rainy reasons, domestic fans call him "Rain Man".

Seattle's "Rain" Gods, The Story of Sean Kemp and Kamikaze II Unboxed

As a violent forward, the rain man Camp's most arrogant and memorable dunk was the performance of Alton Liszt in the first round of the 91-92 Western Conference semifinals against the Warriors.

Seattle's "Rain" Gods, The Story of Sean Kemp and Kamikaze II Unboxed

Nicknamed "Rain Man", he was also a member of the Anti-God Alliance in the 90s, and his peak began in 1993. He won the best team second team for three consecutive seasons, and in the 95-96 season as a core player, he led the supersonics to the finals. In the era of few rounds and fierce confrontation, the average 23.3 points, 10 rebounds and 55% shooting rate in the Finals was a testament to his strength. And this season is also the most classic series of Kemp and Payton's careers: six fights against Jordan.

Seattle's "Rain" Gods, The Story of Sean Kemp and Kamikaze II Unboxed

As a player with excellent running and jumping speed that was rare in the interior at that time, the offensive end was a sharp weapon for quick counterattack, not only with the ball to launch a counterattack, but also on the offensive end with Payton in the air, which was very good at the time. In addition, you can also host the ball frame to launch an attack.

Seattle's "Rain" Gods, The Story of Sean Kemp and Kamikaze II Unboxed

Six-time All-Star in his career, he was the team's first and second scorer at the time, the rebounding king and the block king at the peak of the season, and he was a top big forward with both attack and defense.

Seattle's "Rain" Gods, The Story of Sean Kemp and Kamikaze II Unboxed

Because of this outstanding performance, Sean Kemp signed a contract with Reebok and also launched his own signature shoes. And what we're going to talk about out of the box today is this pair that Kemp wore in the 95-96 season - Kamikaze II. Before we get out of the box, let's take a look back at Sean Kemp's signature shoe collection today.

Seattle's "Rain" Gods, The Story of Sean Kemp and Kamikaze II Unboxed

Shaun Kemp's signature shoes are not only the Kamikaze series, but also the Reinnman series and the single series The Shroud, as well as The Mobius, a signature shoe that originally belonged to Kemp but was cut for some unknown reason. Kamikaze has a total of five models, namely: Kamikaze I (domestic shoe fans call it Wind Forest Volcano) Kamikaze II, released after the Reinnman series, Kamikaze III Kamikaze IV, Kamikaze 2K10.

Seattle's "Rain" Gods, The Story of Sean Kemp and Kamikaze II Unboxed
Seattle's "Rain" Gods, The Story of Sean Kemp and Kamikaze II Unboxed

Reignman also has three shoes, namely Reignman I; Reignman II; reignman III.

Seattle's "Rain" Gods, The Story of Sean Kemp and Kamikaze II Unboxed
Seattle's "Rain" Gods, The Story of Sean Kemp and Kamikaze II Unboxed

After 26 years, a replica version of The Kamikaze II was re-released to restore the design of the first year. And trend illustrator Zhu Yi also created this very interesting and vivid illustration around The image of Kemp calling the wind and rain during the supersonic period.

Seattle's "Rain" Gods, The Story of Sean Kemp and Kamikaze II Unboxed
Seattle's "Rain" Gods, The Story of Sean Kemp and Kamikaze II Unboxed

This replica is designed with a mid-top, all-leather upper and reebok honeycomb cushioning technology. The upper is black, green and white, inspired by Kemp's team, the Supersonics. The green Reebok logo and the green lines that follow the mountain peaks add a glimpse of the overall highlight of the sneakers, playing a decorative visual effect before black and white.

Seattle's "Rain" Gods, The Story of Sean Kemp and Kamikaze II Unboxed
Seattle's "Rain" Gods, The Story of Sean Kemp and Kamikaze II Unboxed

In addition, the Kamikaze II itself is also a product of the Mobius series, and Mobius actually refers to the Möbius design system, that is, through the Möbius belt as inspiration for design. The black and white edges are sharp under the peaked design of the shoe body, which is also a more sharp style than the whole shoe in the previous game, which is very suitable for The Sean Kemp performance in the 95-96 season.

Seattle's "Rain" Gods, The Story of Sean Kemp and Kamikaze II Unboxed
Seattle's "Rain" Gods, The Story of Sean Kemp and Kamikaze II Unboxed

The regular season career record of 1550 points, together with Payton led the team to a strong record of 64 wins and 18 losses, while reaching the finals in the finals to fall behind 3 games against Jordan and move 2 games in a row, although 4-2 lost, here is a cold knowledge: Sean Kemp as the loser snatched three of the FMVP votes from Jordan.

Seattle's "Rain" Gods, The Story of Sean Kemp and Kamikaze II Unboxed
Seattle's "Rain" Gods, The Story of Sean Kemp and Kamikaze II Unboxed

The forked shoe is in line with the previous "untamed" plan. It is also the shoe released at the end of this tour, which is in line with the "untamed" spirit and "fearless" spirit possessed by the "rain man" Camp itself. Seattle's "rain" god, the "untamed" king of slam dunks.

Seattle's "Rain" Gods, The Story of Sean Kemp and Kamikaze II Unboxed

And we see reebok also began to force the basketball market, I believe we also saw a treasure has quietly put on the shelves a basketball shoe main practical use of the entry shoes - sports training basketball shoes More Buckets, according to reliable news, there will be more basketball products at the end of the year, like friends can try. Later, we will also have the opportunity to do some evaluation of Reebok's actual products.

Seattle's "Rain" Gods, The Story of Sean Kemp and Kamikaze II Unboxed

OK, this issue of the sneakers unboxing and star program ended here, like friends hard one key three consecutive support, we will see you in the next issue.

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