Coke No Ice: Slam Dunked

Kobe & Company took care of business last night, beating the Celtics 102-89 in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. In the kicks world, the NBA Finals is like the Super Bowl; its the best time for the footwear brands to showcase upcoming products or reveal eye-catching/water-cooler player exclusives (PE's).

Here's what everyone wore...

Kobe Bryant wore his Nike Zoom Kobe V "Home" Finals Edition, also nicknamed "The Big Stage".

Designed by Erick Goto of Nike Basketball, this simple white & gold colorway features detailed printing on the upper that features statistics and details of his regular season, almost emulating a tattoo.

The shoe looks boring at first, but after seeing the attention to detail, it's quite a nice shoe. Derek Fisher and Shannon Brown were also wearing this colorway last night. More on this shoe can be found by my man Nick at SC.

Rajan Rondo wore a PE version of the upcoming Nike Hyperfuse and Rasheed Wallace wore a mind-blowing patent leather Nike Air Force 1 High. The Hyperfuse looks to be the next chapter of the "Hyper" basketball line, replacing the Hyperize & Hyperdunk. Sheed's AF1s, well....speak for themselves.

Jordan Brand endorsee Ray Allen wore the Jordan Icons team shoe in a patent leather black/kelly green colorway. I'm hoping he sports a nifty AJ retro, a AJ 2010 PE or at least one of the fall team shoes to mix it up.

Andrew Bynum (#17) in his nasty Proteges (thanks, Clarence). These are the same hunks-of-junks he wore in the regular season. These things are nasty...and not in a good way.

Ron Artest in his Peak PE's. I actually like these. Kinda reminisce of the LA Gear styles of Karl Malone back in the day.

Paul Pierce in his Nike Air Flop....er, I mean Nike Air Legacy.

Kevin Garnett in his adidas Super Natural Commander PEs. Garnett will wear adidas for the rest of the playoffs but will wear Chinese brand ANTA next season.