Shoe-gazing at an NBA practice, one of the few things that rarely turns up is unity. Players wear different models, different brands and often different colors.
So it was notable on Monday at Jazz practice that several members of the team were wearing red shoes: Donovan Mitchell, Royce O’Neale and Joe Ingles among them. Is it related to Utah’s redrock-themed City Edition jerseys and court that debut Tuesday night against the Golden State Warriors?
“I haven’t seen them so I can’t get too excited,” Ingles said after practice. “But it’s pretty cool. It’s obviously something we haven’t had.