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Coming off of a stellar “Summer Is Serious” run last year, Nike Basketball<\/strong> is once again looking for the baddest ballers across the globe. This season, the Swoosh stars are taking the game to the next level with “Summer Is Serious 2”<\/strong>, turning the competition to earn a spot in the world’s largest pickup game global, culminating in Spain on September 7th. Nike notables Kevin Durant, James Harden, Kyrie Irving, Skylar Diggins<\/em> and more are conducting the search and draft of the best hoopers in both hemispheres. To enter the pool and try to impress the scouts, all you have to do is film and post a video clip of yourself putting on a show with the hashtag #summerisserious, and basketball’s elite will find you. Watch the video below for all of the details, and register for the big show here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coming off of a stellar “Summer Is Serious” run last year, Nike Basketball is once again looking for the baddest…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4655,"featured_media":394838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1224791,1225493],"tags":[],"cultivate_rss":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNike Basketball's Search for the Baddest | Snkrs Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nike Basketball and their star-studded roster are once again holding a "Summer Is Serious" competition to find all of the baddest ballers.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/nike-basketballs-search-baddest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nike Basketball's Search for the Baddest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nike Basketball and their star-studded roster are once again holding a "Summer Is Serious" competition to find all of the baddest ballers.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/nike-basketballs-search-baddest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Snkrs Day\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NiceKicks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-07-24T17:40:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-09-17T03:32:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2014\/07\/Nike-Basketball-Summer-Is-Serious-21.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"356\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jordan Howenstine\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@snkrsday\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@snkrsday\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jordan Howenstine\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"WebPage\",\"ItemPage\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/nike-basketballs-search-baddest\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/nike-basketballs-search-baddest\/\",\"name\":\"Nike Basketball's Search for the Baddest | Snkrs Day\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/nike-basketballs-search-baddest\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/nike-basketballs-search-baddest\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2014\/07\/Nike-Basketball-Summer-Is-Serious-21.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-07-24T17:40:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-17T03:32:58+00:00\",\"description\":\"Nike Basketball and their star-studded roster are once again holding a \\\"Summer Is Serious\\\" competition to find all of the baddest ballers.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/nike-basketballs-search-baddest\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/nike-basketballs-search-baddest\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/nike-basketballs-search-baddest\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2014\/07\/Nike-Basketball-Summer-Is-Serious-21.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2014\/07\/Nike-Basketball-Summer-Is-Serious-21.jpg\",\"width\":700,\"height\":356,\"caption\":\"Nike-Basketball-Summer-Is-Serious-2\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/nike-basketballs-search-baddest\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Nike\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/nike\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Nike Basketball\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/nike\/nike-basketball\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":4,\"name\":\"Nike Basketball’s Search for the Baddest\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/\",\"name\":\"Snkrs Day\",\"description\":\"Sneakers News. 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