Nike Kyrie 7 TD 'BK Black'
Colorway: Black/Off Noir/Chile Red/White · Style code: CT4980-002 · Release date: November 19, 2020 · Price: $79 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Nike Kyrie 7 TD 'Pixel Camo' (CT4980-008) · Nike Kyrie 7 TD 'Hip-Hop' (CT4980-105) · Nike Kyrie 7 TD 'Ripple' (CT4980-207) · Nike Kyrie 7 TD 'Sisterhood' (CT4980-400) · Nike Kyrie 7 TD 'Daybreak' (CT4980-500)
Irving joined the Brooklyn Nets as a free agent in July 2019, two years after Cleveland traded him to Boston. Black and white are the team's colors, and BK is how the borough writes itself; by the time the seventh signature shoe reached toddler sizing in November 2020, the initials alone were enough to carry the association.
A toddler basketball shoe is not a scaled-down basketball shoe, it is a different problem. There is no lacing to speak of - elastic cord runs through the eyestays and never gets untied - and an adjustable strap across the ankle does the actual securing, so an adult can open the shoe wide and drop a foot into it. The mesh upper is soft enough to fold flat. A molded heel piece is the one properly structural element, there to stop the back of the shoe collapsing while it is being pulled on.
Underneath, a two-tone rubber outsole runs a multi-directional pattern, which at this size has less to do with lateral cuts than with not sliding across a kitchen floor.