{"id":795267,"date":"2018-11-05T17:02:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T22:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?p=795267"},"modified":"2018-11-05T17:02:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T22:02:12","slug":"pj-tucker-lets-us-in-on-the-shoes-hes-still-chasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/pj-tucker-lets-us-in-on-the-shoes-hes-still-chasing\/","title":{"rendered":"PJ Tucker Lets Us In On The Shoes He’s Still Chasing"},"content":{"rendered":"

words by Christopher Cason<\/em><\/p>\n

Last weekend, during the second stop on the Houston Rockets’ five-game road trip, I watched PJ Tucker<\/strong> cycle through the Nike Air Force 1 Sheed PE, Nike Zoom LeBron III \u201cSuperman,\u201d UNDFTD x Nike Hyperdunk before settling on the Air Jordan 10 \u201cJBC.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just a day before in Brooklyn, he gave us all the first look at the Nike Air Fear of God 1 against the Nets<\/a>. That was something that had been in the works for months after Jerry Lorenzo showed him the design in Paris during Fashion Week. With the two being friends and Lorenzo being one of Tucker\u2019s favorite designers, it didn\u2019t take long for an agreement to be reached.<\/p>\n

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Arriving in Chicago donning the Air Jordan 3 Oregon PE, Tucker sees to it that Rockets Equipment Manager, Anthony Nila, will spend each game day on his toes, ready to swap from the assortment of the forward\u2019s selection. Along with what Nila is responsible for, Tucker may also arrive at the game with another pair or two in hand. This is on top of the 12-14 pairs he\u2019ll typically travel with for casual wear.<\/p>\n

\u201cI stopped [counting] at 4,000 in like 2011 or 2012 and I haven\u2019t counted since.\u201d – PJ Tucker<\/h3>\n

While I had always thought of his footwear showcase as flexing \u2013 and it is to a degree \u2013 I learned that a lot more thought goes into the decisions of what he\u2019s wearing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I pack, it usually depends on how many games we\u2019re on the road and where we\u2019re going,\u201d Tucker says. \u201cI have to know where we\u2019re playing, know what colors we\u2019re wearing and I kind of base my selection off of that. If it\u2019s a one-game trip, I\u2019m going to have about six pairs because I\u2019ll switch it up. Some days, I\u2019ll feel a certain way, then we\u2019ll land somewhere and I\u2019ll feel another and on game day, I might feel another.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t try to show off a bunch of shoes. It literally is about my superstitions,\u201d he continued. \u201cIf I start a game off and miss a couple of shots, I\u2019m probably going to switch those out. If I\u2019m getting scored on, I\u2019m not moving right and I\u2019m missing my rotations, I\u2019m going to switch the shoes out.\u201d<\/p>\n

He estimated that he spent around $200,000 on sneakers last season. As much as he enjoys playing in some of the most coveted kicks in the world, Tucker seems to enjoy the thrill of tracking down limited releases and rare gems.<\/p>\n

Given how long he\u2019s been at it, it\u2019s now all about quality over quantity.<\/p>\n

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photo by Bill Baptist\/NBAE via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI stopped [counting] at 4,000 in like 2011 or 2012 and I haven\u2019t counted since,\u201d he says. \u201cI give away so many and we get so many every day \u2013 me and my brother. I have a room where I store and stock them and there\u2019s a room with all the stuff I wear and the things I\u2019m going to wear.\u201d<\/p>\n

While there isn\u2019t anyone in the league coming close to taking his crown as the league\u2019s undisputed sneaker king, off the floor, you\u2019re more likely to see him in the Epic Reacts, Air Skylon IIs, Air Max 1s, Air Force 1s and SB Dunks. “When kids see me off the court they\u2019ll always be like, ‘Man, I thought you would have some heat on?’<\/em> Man, I don\u2019t wear that stuff off the court,” Tucker says. “I\u2019m 33 years old, got kids and I don\u2019t have time to find heat every day to wear.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the sheer number of choices at his disposal, I figured it would be difficult to conduct a My<\/em> 5<\/em>\u00a0that PJ would truly be comfortable with. So, we changed things up to see what five shoes he\u2019s currently on the hunt for, has acquired and what we might see him rocking very soon.<\/p>\n

Nike LeBron 6 “Stewie Griffin”<\/h2>\n
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photo by NBA<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PJ Tucker:<\/strong> I don\u2019t have any grails at the moment because I feel like I have everything that I really want. That sounds crazy but when you do it every day for most of your life up until this point, there are no grails for me anymore. The hardest pair for me recently was the \u201cStewie Griffin\u201d LeBron 6. It took me a long time to get those because that\u2019s a hard pair to find \u2013 probably the hardest. I was able to get them and that was big.<\/p>\n

Nike KD 2 “All-Star” & Nike KD 3 \u201cHorse Hair\u201d<\/h2>\n
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Nike KD II All Star<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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photo via SC<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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PJ Tucker:<\/strong> The All-Star KD 2s \u2013 the all red ones are crazy! That and the Horsehair KD 3. I haven\u2019t seen anyone with those but I\u2019m going to bring those out soon. I was going to surprise people but I\u2019ve told you. [Laughs<\/em>] I think they\u2019re going to go over a lot of people\u2019s head, but those are crazy.<\/p>\n

Nike Air Yeezy 1 Grammy PE<\/h2>\n
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photo via The Heat Check<\/a>\/TSG<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PJ Tucker:<\/strong> I\u2019m working on this Grammy Edition Air Yeezy. A lot of people don\u2019t know, it\u2019s an all, all black pair that\u2019s crazy! It\u2019s a pair out there that\u2019s floating around and I know this dude that has them. He\u2019s holding onto them with dear life but I\u2019m going to get them off of him and I\u2019m going to hoop in them. I want to hoop in those so bad. I\u2019m working on that now.<\/p>\n

Nike SB Dunk Low “Yellow Lobster”<\/h2>\n
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Nike SB Dunk Low “Yellow Lobster”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PJ Tucker:<\/strong> They\u2019re just crazy.<\/p>\n

Nike LeBron X \u201cReverse Championship Pack\u201d<\/h2>\n
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photo via NikeLeBron.net<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PJ Tucker:<\/strong> It\u2019s a reverse LeBron X Championship Pack. A lot of people don\u2019t know about those but the red pair are low and the green pair are high. It\u2019s crazy.<\/p>\n

For every sneaker PJ has worn on-court and pre-game this season, click here<\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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