Sneaker head Nick DePaula.

Because who else would we possibly want to talk snakes?

If it wasn't him, let's start with the air.

Jordan 35.

What can you tell us about their presence on the court this season?

Yeah, we're seeing a huge resurgence for Jordan brand.

You know, the last 16 months they've been trying to reset their roster.

They added, Zion Williamson, Uh, Luca Jayson Tatum really had camera.

And then they just added Bradley Beal, too.

So they've got a whole new batch of guys wearing the Jordan 35 around the league and basically reestablishing the annual game shoe that we all grew up loving.

Of course, when it comes to those PS that we saw the car, merlots were easily far and away my favorite of them.

But like when we're talking sneaker deals, they had to have been adjusted quite a bit, given the shortened season and everything that occurs after that financially.

So what?

Have they made adjustment wise on that front?

Yeah, it's been a crazy year in terms of shoe deals, obviously, with all the financial impact that brands are facing.

We basically have 100 sneaker free agents playing this season already, which is unprecedented.

Onley.

Four rookies in the class got a shoe deal to start the year.

Lemelle a ball with Puma.

Anthony Edwards signed with Adidas on the Echo Quanzhou on the Hawks side of Adidas as well.

And then R J.

Hampton is with leaning so outside of that, it's been a pretty slow season so far to start.

And a lot of guys, we're just playing for free, Nick.

Meanwhile, the Nike A Listers air like one recession.

What financial impact I'm talking about.

Net App.

Knicks.

You got K D.

You got Kyrie A.

Where is Nike gonna give Kyrie like a cross trainer of walking shoe?

Because he certainly isn't using his basketball one any time soon.

So what's good with them?

Well, they've been putting the third eye on his shoe for about four shoes now, So that's the conspiracy.

Elements have been involved in the shoes, for sure, but but But, you know, obviously, with the James Harden trade to you got a crazy, crazy situation where it's pretty rare.

I think it's only happened a handful of times in league history where you got three signature guys on the same shoe.

I'm on the same team.

And you could throw Spencer Dinwiddie into that mix, too, because he has his own kind of side brand he doesn't shoot with.

So for Nets, they're gonna have a ton of star power.

And it's gonna be fun to see them play the Knicks, because the Knicks are kind of this up and coming team with a ton of guys wearing Puma's.

Obviously, they got the connection with Clyde Frazier being the iconic guy that, as crazy as this sounds, was on the last next championship team.

So you know, they're hoping they could get the new guys going and and they've been wearing some fun stuff with Puma.

They've got collaboration with everybody's, you know, one of everybody's favorite holiday movies, Elf, that they've been rocking so kind of a different, crazy approach.

But it's been fun to see what they've been doing.

I love to hear about Puma guys because it also Spencer didn't because I feel like people often sleep on Spencer Dinwiddie and he does have his own sneaker.

I wanna ask is the last question to wrap this thing up.

You obviously have a sneaker plug.

Can you get me in on that or No, I told I told Trevor a couple weeks back, I haven't got a shoe on sneakers since, like 2016.

Esso.

I wake up earlier on the West Coast and get the hell is to like you guys so I could try to see what I could dio.

Okay, so I'll just I'll just keep trying on the sneakers app.

I guess I'll just keep trying and keep taking else.

Thanks so much, Nick.

All right, Thanks, Scott.

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