{"id":453018,"date":"2015-06-23T18:46:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T22:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?p=453018"},"modified":"2015-06-24T01:31:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T05:31:15","slug":"kevin-durant-and-designer-leo-chang-explain-inspiration-behind-nike-kd-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/kevin-durant-and-designer-leo-chang-explain-inspiration-behind-nike-kd-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant and Designer Leo Chang Explain Inspiration Behind Nike KD 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/tag\/nike-kd-8\/\">Nike KD 8<\/a> slated to make its official debut in stores later this month, the inspiration behind Durant&#8217;s eighth signature shoe with Nike Basketball continues to evolve, as exampled today by KD himself and the shoe&#8217;s designer, Leo Chang.<\/p>\n<p>Completely unique from any of Durant&#8217;s past signatures, the shoe takes on a running aesthetic, one that includes the newly introduced\u00a0Flyweave upper and segmented Zoom Air bag implementation. Both Durant and Chang champion a matte red Camaro Durant once owned as inspiration, alongside the cold-blooded killer that is the saber tooth tiger for the shoe&#8217;s first &#8220;Bright Crimson&#8221; colorway.<\/p>\n<p>Chang goes on to detail engineered textiles and advancements in performance cues to the <strong>Nike KD 8<\/strong> being the most innovative hoops silhouette of its time. Read more on this story over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complex.com\/sneakers\/2015\/06\/kevin-durant-completely-reinvents-signature-sneakers\" target=\"_blank\">Complex<\/a> and look out for the KD 8 on June 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Nike KD 8 slated to make its official debut in stores later this month, the inspiration behind Durant&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137731,"featured_media":453020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1224791],"tags":[1083,1205302,1222445],"cultivate_rss":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.0 (Yoast SEO v24.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kevin Durant and Designer Leo Chang Explain Inspiration Behind Nike KD 8 | Snkrs Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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