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While the event date has changed, there are VERY good reasons why and unfortunately there is no amount of money that can change this - otherwise it would have been done. Last weekend, I was at the Nike Mag event at The Montalban in Hollywood and it was a real pleasure hanging out with many of you. It reinforced why we are continuing to host events and launch some next level sneakers - because of you - the person into kicks for the right reasons. I loved hanging out with everyone in line and can't wait to see many of you at the Vegas event next month.

Good times ahead. Galaxy took over the entire spring and became a phenomenon larger than anyone expected, but do you remember when you saw the theme's first appearance? The version that Humphrey wore that night was actually an early round trial sample and would go on to change quite a bit by the time the eventual Galaxy Foamposite One tried to be released in February, but the first look at the event was impactful enough.

Already in development for the entire year, the concept came about after the creative minds in the Nike Basketball group met with the Nike Sportswear team to discuss a direction and approach for the upcoming Orlando All-Star Weekend. One thing was for sure, they weren't going to slap together some beach-inspired backstory, with the coast a good two hours away. This theme was rooted in storytelling and rich with detail. Once the team had that direction to work with, they began to look at new ways to tell the story, leading Barnes down the path of applying graphics for the very first time atop Penny Hardaway's most iconic sneaker.

I worked with developer George Chiou and we just started sending out pattern trials with different methods of printing to see which one looked best to make sure it would come out the way that we wanted. One of those first trial samples was the pair that Humphrey would eventually rock for the Las Vegas launch event of Penny's newest sneaker.

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