Six New Nike Hyperdunk Low Styles Celebrate Basketball's Global Capital Cities

(Nike NEWS)
Across the world, basketball’s pulse speeds up in the summer. Local, national and global icons are cemented in gyms and on city concrete as skills are refined for every circumstance, from earning your name to mounting a championship defense, from pick-up play to pro-am tournaments.

Nowhere is this verve for the sport more evident than in basketball’s global capitals: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Manila, Beijing and Madrid. Each of these cities carries a distinct competitive fire, and each a unique flare for the game.

These distinctions, as well as the collective spirit of summer basketball, are celebrated in Nike Basketball’s HyperFam collection that's comprised of six shoes, one Nike Hyperdunk Low 2017 for each of the game’s capital cities.

The silhouette delivers a level of comfort, support and responsive energy return (thanks to the all-new proprietary Nike React cushioning platform) perfectly suited to the summer game. The colors and graphics on each shed light on the personality of that specific city's game.

NEW YORK VS. NEW YORK

Testing skill in New York City on a single court isn’t enough. One has to establish themselves across the hallowed concrete of the five boroughs’ most famous courts to reach icon status. Over generations, a blueprint for this all-city status has emerged, and each summer the Big Apple’s hungriest talent follows it to prove their metal.

With a schematic blueprint city map drawn in basketball-inspired lines, the Nike Hyperdunk Low 2017 NYC alludes to the city’s path to basketball success. The shoe launches early August.