The choices are endless if you want a humidor to house your cigar collection. There are humidors that use rare woods and are finished in high gloss lacquers showing off the distinct grain, ones covered in leathers in many colors, acrylic, metal, or almost any other material and shape you could imagine.
However, when J.C. Newman came out with a new humidor made with wood from a basketball court, that was something different. But it wasn’t just any basketball court. Working with the NBA’s Reclaimed program, the company acquired part of the floor from the 2011 NBA All-Star Game, played at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. From there, the company worked with Jason LeGear of JML Modern, a woodworker and humidor maker based in Milwaukee, Wis., to produce 40 humidors with 30 The American All-Star cigars inside. The 6 1/2 x 50 toro is a new size previously unavailable for sale and features a band on the foot of the cigar that says All-Star.
For any cigar lover and NBA fan, this humidor is more than just another cigar accessory, but a collectible piece of NBA history that legends like LeBron James, Kevin Durant, and the year’s All-Star MVP Kobe Bryant would have tread on during the game. That is the type of story that not many humidors can tell, no matter what material they’re made out of.
Each humidor comes with a few certificates, one of which shows which part of the floor was used for that particular humidor. — Brian Burt.
