{"id":180387,"date":"2025-09-30T15:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/180387\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T15:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:58:09","slug":"suns-jalen-green-reportedly-turned-down-lucrative-adidas-contract-before-nba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/180387\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns&#8217; Jalen Green Reportedly Turned Down &#8216;Lucrative&#8217; Adidas Contract Before NBA Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Phoenix Suns guard Jalen Green is a sneaker free agent for the first time in his NBA career, according to footwear industry reporter <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NickDePaula\/status\/1973029062429028807\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Nick DePaula<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">DePaula reported Tuesday that Green turned down a &#8220;lucrative multi-year&#8221; extension of his previous shoe deal with Adidas ahead of his first season with the Suns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The decision will make Green &#8220;one of the NBA&#8217;s top current sneaker free agents,&#8221; DePaula wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Green is now &#8220;expected to begin the NBA season and highlight his style by wearing a variety of sneaker companies&#8221; before signing his next footwear deal, DePaul wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The news comes just over eight months after Green debuted his signature logo on the Adizero 3.0 in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Adidas <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/10003974-jalen-green-adidas-agree-to-contract-ahead-of-2021-nba-draft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">first signed<\/a> Green ahead of the 2021 NBA draft, just over two months before the Houston Rockets selected him with the No. 2 pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Green starred for the Rockets for four seasons before he was traded to Phoenix in June as part of the blockbuster deal for Kevin Durant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">He is now set to make his regular-season debut for the Suns, potentially while wearing a new sneaker brand for the first time in his NBA career, in his new team&#8217;s Oct. 22 season opener against the visiting Sacramento Kings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns guard Jalen Green is a sneaker free agent for the first time in his NBA career,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-180387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}