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NBA Kicks: Mavs Star Kyrie Irving Reveals Shoe Deal Signing?

After being dropped by Nike while he was with the Brooklyn Nets, Dallas Mavericks star point guard Kyrie Irving is close to having a new kicks partnership elsewhere.
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NBA Kicks: Mavs Star Kyrie Irving Reveals Shoe Deal Signing?
NBA Kicks: Mavs Star Kyrie Irving Reveals Shoe Deal Signing?

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Dallas Mavericks star point guard Kyrie Irving is a free agent in more ways than one this offseason. He is an NBA free agent on June 30, when the Mavs plan to re-sign him to a long-term contract, and he's also a free agent when it comes to having a sneaker deal.

Irving had been with Nike since his rookie year in 2011, but that partnership ended abruptly in December after he made a post on social media that contained a link to an antisemitic movie. After Nike dropped Irving, he still wore his signature shoes, but he covered up the 'swoosh' with tape that had personally-written messages on it.

It appears that Irving's seven-month shoe deal drought could be coming to an end, as he was seen sporting the Anta Shock Wave Pro 5 at his annual basketball camp last week. Anta, which is a Chinese brand, has a handful of NBA players on its sneaker roster, including Golden State Warriors star Klay Thompson, Chicago Bulls' Alex Caruso and Charlotte Hornets' Gordon Hayward.

"I will be signing my new shoe deal very, very soon. I won’t even call it a shoe deal. I’m about to blow this out the water. I’m so excited about it," Irving said on a recent Instagram Live video.

Whatever Irving wants to call it, the fact of the matter is that he will no longer be on the sneaker free-agency market soon. If the Mavs have it their way, that will be the case in NBA free agency as well, with Irving re-signing in Dallas and continuing to work toward a championship with Luka Doncic.

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DALTON TRIGG

Dalton Trigg is the Editor-In-Chief for Dallas Basketball, as well as the Executive Editor overseeing Inside The Rockets, Inside The Spurs, All Knicks, and The Magic Insider. He is the founder and host for the Mavs Step Back Podcast, which is a proud part of the Blue Wire podcast network. Trigg graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business and Economic Development with a bachelor’s degree in entrepreneurship in 2016. After spending a few years with multiple Dallas Mavericks-related blogs, including SB Nation’s Mavs Moneyball, Trigg joined DallasBasketball.com as a staff writer in 2018 and never looked back. At the start of 2022, he was promoted to the EIC title he holds now. Through the years, Trigg has conducted a handful of high-profile one-on-one interviews to add to his resume — in both writing and podcasting. Some of his biggest interviews have been with Mavs owner Mark Cuban, Mavs GM Nico Harrison, now-retired legend Dirk Nowitzki and many other current/former players and team staffers. Many of those interviews and other articles by Trigg have been aggregated by other well-known sports media websites, such as Yahoo Sports, CBS Sports, Bleacher Report and others. You can find Trigg on all major social media channels, but his most prevalent platform is on Twitter. Whether it’s posting links to his DBcom work, live-tweeting Mavs games or merely giving his opinions on things going on with Dallas and the rest of the NBA, the daily content never stops rolling. For any inquiries, please email Dalton@MavsStepBack.com.

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