{"id":469664,"date":"2015-10-29T18:22:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T22:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?p=469664"},"modified":"2020-03-02T16:30:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T21:30:41","slug":"my-5-jr-duperriers-adidas-sneaker-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/my-5-jr-duperriers-adidas-sneaker-rotation\/","title":{"rendered":"My 5 \/\/ JR Duperrier’s Adidas Sneaker Rotation"},"content":{"rendered":"
words, interview & images \/\/ Nick DePaula:<\/strong><\/p>\n With the NBA season getting underway this week, there’s a new 82-game campaign on deck for the league’s biggest stars to showcase their skills and reach a new audience of fans across the globe.<\/p>\n At each of the major footwear companies, countless people, like adidas Basketball’s JR Duperrier<\/a>,\u00a0are working behind the scenes to promote the emerging brands of their top athletes. After studying Sports Management at St. John’s University and working as the Red Storm’s hoops team manager, he landed a role in Portland with The Three Stripes, where he’s worked for the past nine years.<\/p>\n As one of the members of the adidas Basketball Sports Marketing team, Duperrier works with several of their biggest\u00a0endorsers, like James Harden<\/a>, Damian Lillard<\/a>, Andrew Wiggins and many others, to make sure they’re taken care of, both on and off the court. He’s also had a chance to have his share of commercial cameos <\/a>too.<\/p>\nFor our world, a new season also means a new batch of marquee sneakers launching, new campaigns for each of the key signature athletes and new on-court moments to look forward to as the season progresses.<\/p>\n