{"id":108444,"date":"2024-11-22T11:03:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T16:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=108444"},"modified":"2024-11-22T11:03:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T16:03:07","slug":"hawks-trae-young-signs-jordan-adidas-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/11\/22\/hawks-trae-young-signs-jordan-adidas-split\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks All-Star Signs With Jordan After Adidas Split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta Hawks face of the franchise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/y\/youngtr01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trae Young<\/a> finding a new sneaker home didn\u2019t take too much time off the clock.<\/p>\n<h2>Hawks All-Star Trae Young Signs With Jordan After Adidas Split<\/h2>\n<p>After parting ways with Adidas <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/09\/15\/whats-next-for-trae-youngs-sneaker-line-adidas\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">shortly before the season<\/a>, Young has agreed to sign a shoe endorsement contract with Jordan Brand, per Boardroom insider Nick DePaula. Upon completing the deal, he says: \u201cThis brand embodies basketball, style, a desire to win and the desire to be great.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Hawks All-Star Trae Young has signed with Jordan Brand. \ud83d\udcc4\u270d\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis brand embodies basketball, style, a desire to win and the desire to be great,\u201d said Young.<\/p>\n<p>Young will headline the AJ 39 &amp; further his impact at the University of Oklahoma, now a Jordan program. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aXEVHkQF12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/aXEVHkQF12<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nick DePaula (@NickDePaula) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickDePaula\/status\/1859975341315658111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Young is set to headline the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nike.com\/a\/jordan-39-release-date\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Air Jordan 39<\/a>, which officially released in late July. Orlando Magic star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/banchpa01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paolo Banchero<\/a> debuted the sneakers in the First Round of the 2024 NBA Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>There are already nine colorways for the model. However, Jordan Brand plans to launch more colorways for the 39 series through next summer. With that being said, aesthetically, it\u2019s \u201csimpler in design\u201d than other models. Technologically, the Air Jordan 39 is \u201cthe first basketball shoe featuring full lengths of both ZoomX foam and Air Zoom.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>A Perfect Match<\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s no wonder the opportunity was so appealing to Young. All of the qualities that he believes the brand reflects are ones that he does as well.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth overall pick in the 2018 NBA Draft, Young has captivated basketball fans across the world on his way to earning three All-Star selections and counting. He\u2019s not just well on his way to becoming the best player Hawks history. His name is <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/11\/08\/hawks-trae-young-passes-joe-johnson-all-time\/\" target=\"_self\">in the league history books<\/a> alongside Hall of Fame players like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/n\/nashst01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steve Nash<\/a> thanks to his extraordinary guard skills.<\/p>\n<p>Unironically, he\u2019s Atlanta\u2019s version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jordami01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Jordan<\/a>; their offensive engine. The 26-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/11\/19\/hawks-dyson-daniels-bulls-scottie-pippen-impression\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">even has his<\/a> own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/p\/pippesc01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scottie Pippen<\/a> now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta Hawks face of the franchise Trae Young finding a new sneaker home didn\u2019t take too much time off the clock. Hawks All-Star Trae Young Signs With Jordan After Adidas Split After parting ways with Adidas shortly before the season, Young has agreed to sign a shoe endorsement contract with Jordan Brand, per Boardroom insider [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":108448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1608,62,3],"tags":[1259,2570,607,49313,1349],"class_list":["post-108444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hawks","category-basketball","category-nba","category-news","tag-adidas","tag-jordan-bowden","tag-michael-jordan","tag-sneakers","tag-trae-young"],"modified_by":"Quenton S Albertie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}