{"id":788974,"date":"2026-07-09T10:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/788974\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T10:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:29:13","slug":"aj-dybantsa-teases-new-nike-shoe-with-signature-logo-in-video-ahead-of-wizards-summer-league-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/788974\/","title":{"rendered":"AJ Dybantsa Teases New Nike Shoe with Signature Logo in Video Ahead of Wizards Summer League Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

AJ Dybantsa hasn’t even made his NBA Summer League debut, but he already has his own Nike logo and is rocking never-before-seen shoes from the brand. <\/p>\n

The Washington Wizards rookie was wearing a new Nike silhouette featuring his Starboy signature logo during Summer League practice on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

Dybantsa joined the Nike team in 2024 before even beginning his college career, and he helped debut the brand’s G.T. Future earlier this year. <\/p>\n

“When Nike first brought me the G.T. Future, I said, ‘I can be the face of this shoe.’ Everybody thinks I’m the future \u2014 and I think I’m the future,” he said<\/a>. “So it makes sense that I debuted the G.T. Future.”<\/p>\n

In April, Dybantsa unveiled his signature logo with Nike. <\/p>\n

While plenty of NBA stars have partnerships with Nike, few have the privilege of being brought on as one of the faces of the brand so early in their career. That kind of recognition has been saved for players like Michael Jordan, LeBron James and Victor Wembanyama. <\/p>\n

Clearly, Nike thinks highly of Dybantsa, and it has every reason to. <\/p>\n

Dybantsa led the nation in scoring at BYU last year, putting up 25.5 points per game on an efficient 51 percent from the field. He already has the makeup of an NBA star, and it likely won’t be long before he’s making a serious impact in the league. <\/p>\n

He’ll have his first chance to go up against NBA competition when the Wizards face No. 2 overall pick Darryn Peterson and the Utah Jazz on Thursday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AJ Dybantsa hasn’t even made his NBA Summer League debut, but he already has his own Nike logo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-788974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}