Nike Book 1 'Chapter One'
Colorway: Clay Orange/Ice Peach/Campfire Orange · Style code: FJ4249-800 · Release date: December 10, 2023 · Price: $1500 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Book 1 "Flagstaff" (FJ4249-300) · Nike Book 1 'Haven' (FJ4249-001) · Nike Book 1 'Halloween' (FJ4249-003) · Nike Book 1 'Mirage' (FJ4249-100) · Nike Book 1 'Rattlesnake' (FJ4249-101)
On 24 March 2017, against Boston, Devin Booker became the sixth player in NBA history to score 70 points in a game. He was twenty years old, which made him the youngest to reach both 70 and 60, and no one had scored more in a single game since Kobe Bryant's 81 in January 2006. It took another six years for a signature shoe to follow.
The Book 1 launched in December 2023 and takes its cues from workwear rather than from basketball. The quarter panels are canvas, the forefoot is a scaled leather, and the whole upper is finished in a single flat orange. The name is worked into the object literally: a woven tongue tag reads Book, and the pull tab at the heel is shaped and printed like the spine of a hardback, with Chapter One on it.
Underneath it is a straightforward performance build: a Cushlon 2.0 midsole wrapped in matching orange TPU for sidewall support, with a top-loaded Zoom Air unit set into the heel. It listed at $150.