Basketball shoes can be used for much more than performance.<\/p>\n
On Sunday night, Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond<\/strong> chose to bring awareness to the one-year anniversary of the Newtown, Connecticut shooting through his sneakers. The names of all 26 victims involved in the Sandy Hook shooting graced Drummond’s “Old Royal” Air Jordan 10s<\/strong> in the Pistons’ game against the Portland Trail Blazers. The former UCONN Husky also stated that he will give his game-worn jersey to the school.<\/p>\n The honorable gesture to Sandy Hook is not the only one we’ve seen on the NBA courts. You may recall Kevin Durant writing, “Newtown, Connecticut” on his shoes just one day after news broke of the shooting last season. View multiple photos of Drummond’s tribute below.<\/p>\n Andre Drummond at the free throw line in his Air Jordan 10 “Old Royal” honoring the Sandy Hook victims\n Andre Drummond honoring the Sandy Hook victims in his Air Jordan 10 “Old Royal”\n <\/p>\n Andre Drummond honoring the Sandy Hook victims in his Air Jordan 10 “Old Royal”\n Andre Drummond honoring the Sandy Hook victims in his Air Jordan 10 “Old Royal”\n Andre Drummond honoring the Sandy Hook victims in his Air Jordan 10 “Old Royal”\n <\/p>\n Derrick Williams dunking in the Nike Hyperdunk “Aston Martin”\n Nate Robinson shooting in the Air Jordan 5 Black\/Metallic Silver\n Wilson Chandler shooting in a Nike KD VI ‘Blue Hero’ iD\n Jason Thompson dunking in a Nike KD VI ‘Chroma’ iD\n <\/p>\n Mike Conley, Jr. and Ricky Rubio both wearing the adidas adiZero Crazy Light 3\n Goran Dragic and Steph Curry in the adidas Crazy Ghost and the Under Armour Anatomix Spawn, respectively\n Marcus Morris shooting in the Nike LeBron X “Extraterrestrial”\n Jrue Holiday shooting in the adidas Crazy 8\n <\/p>\n Ty Lawson shooting in a Nike Zoom LeBron Soldier VII iD\n Jeremy Lamb shooting in a Nike KD VI iD\n Arron Affalo and Russell Westbrook in the adidas adiZero Crazy Light 3 Low and an Air Jordan XX8 SE PE, respectively\n Kevin Durant wearing the Nike KD VI “Seat Pleasant”\n <\/p>\n DeMarcus Cousins wearing a Nike LeBron 11 iD\n Nicolas Batum and Josh Smith in the adidas adiZero Crazy Light 3 and the adidas Crazy Ghost, respectively\n Kentavious Caldwell-Pope in the Nike KD VI “Precision Timing”\n Mo Williams and Chauncey Billups in the Nike Hyperfuse 2012 Low and the adidas adiZero Crazy Light 3, respectively\n Corey Brewer wearing an Under Armour Micro G Torch PE\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Basketball shoes can be used for much more than performance.<\/p>\n On Sunday night, Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond chose to bring awareness to the one-year anniversary of the Newtown, Connecticut shooting through his sneakers. The names of all 26 victims involved in the Sandy Hook shooting graced Drummond’s “Old Royal” Air Jordan 10s in the Pistons’ game against the Portland Trail Blazers. The former UCONN Husky also stated that he will give his game-worn jersey to the school. <\/p>\n The honorable gesture to the Sandy Hook casualties is not the only one we’ve seen on the NBA courts. You may recall Kevin Durant writing, “Newtown, Connecticut” on his shoes just one day after news broke of the shooting last season. View multiple photos of Drummond’s tribute below. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":353931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[835],"tags":[1216481,1225551],"cultivate_rss":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n