Nike Book 1 Drama

The Nike Book 1 hasn’t even officially dropped yet and the star behind the shoe already had some choice words about the rollout of his first signature sneaker. For context, Complex put out a video discussing the Nike Book 1 release and they were pretty critical about the fact that the shoe sorta dropped at Art Basel (500 pairs) in December and not in Phoenix where Booker plays. Peep the post 👇

Devin Booker himself commented on this post agreeing with Complex…wow okay. The call is coming from inside the house so to speak. Seeing a Nike signature athlete criticize a sneaker launch is kinda wild. Booker is a bold man

Personally, if Nike gave me my own signature shoe and it was as fire as D Books’ I wouldn't say diddly squat about the rollout. But I'm not Devin Booker, I’m just a guy standing in front of a computer screen asking it to publish my newsletter 👾

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I respect Devin being unflinchingly honest and I appreciate that he's giving us in the sneaker sphere something to gossip about. I personally love the shoes and I don’t really GAF that people seem to think these are too “lifestyle oriented”. I understand Book’s feelings that a Phoenix Suns colorway shoe should have been released in Phoenix, but I also get why Nike wanted to have an activation surrounding the shoe at Basel ☀️

Obviously a simple solution would have been a simultaneous release, but I’m not in charge of those sort of things. The most important thing is that we see little kids at Suns games wearing the Nike Book 1, that’s what’s supposed to happen and I’m confident that it will happen following a the general release in a few weeks. While all this drama was going on, Durant was just doing his thing with the game-winner in his Suns-inspired Nike KD 16s 🐍

Back to Book, it’s been confirmed that the Nike Book 1 will be released to the masses on February 17th during NBA All-Star weekend. There’s a few alternate colorways that have leaked: Hike, Haven and Rattlesnake. I like the Haven 💧

Let’s just make sure we support Book in a few weeks when these drop, he’s the man and we at Overtime are big fans. If you were wondering, some of the Basel numbered shoes are for sale…for $1900+ 💰

What’s Happening

• Jordan Brand is making slip-on Air Jordan 1s. Chop off the heel why not

• The Howard Bison are getting their own AJ1 Low this year. First HBCU + Jordan Brand official release

• The new Off-White x Futura x Nike Dunk Low packaging goes hard

• First look at the A Ma Maniere x Nike Air max 95 collab

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