She just is so sharp and so laser-focused.” She was just like, ‘Where’s this? Where’s this?” in the best way possible. I was trying to do this really specific reveal and unveil the product. I was so impressed by all of the details that remembered us discussing in November, and then asked us to see the updates and see the progress. “Everyone has a lot that’s going on in their lives outside of when we get to meet and collaborate. “I think it was in December, we were meeting and we had last met in November, so we were only meeting a month apart, but things happen in a month,” Ramprasad said. Its last official WNBA signature model before that was Diana Taurasi’s Shox DT all the way back in 2006.Īhead of today’s unveiling, Complex caught up with Ionescu, as well as Nike footwear product director of basketball Deepa Ramprasad and senior designer of performance basketball footwear Ben Nethongkome, to find out more about how the sneaker came to fruition. For Nike, the Sabrina 1 joins Delle Donne’s Air Deldon from 2022 as the brand’s second women’s signature basketball shoe after a lengthy period away from the category. Ionescu’s Nike Sabrina 1 was revealed today, making the New York Liberty guard the third active WNBA player to have her own shoe, following new teammate Breanna Stewart and fellow Swoosh endorsee Elena Delle Donne. Around a year and a half later, that hypothetical is becoming a reality. “It’d be awesome.Hopefully that will kind of take care of itself as long as I take care of my business on the court,” she responded. In a September 2021 episode of Sneaker Shopping, host Joe La Puma asked WNBA superstar Sabrina Ionescu about the prospect of receiving her own Nike signature shoe.
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