Nike Killshot 2 Black Gum

Part of the Killshot line. This release has a leather upper in Black/Sail/Gum Yellow. Nike got into tennis before it got into most things off the running track: Ilie Nastase was the first professional athlete the company ever put under contract, and court shoes of that period were built low, plain and quiet because club dress codes wanted them that way. The Killshot carries that logic forward, a shoe with no cushioning story to tell and no branding beyond the Swoosh stitched on the quarter, the mark Carolyn Davidson drew as a design student and Nike first used in June 1971. Black Gum is the version that reads least like sportswear. A black upper drops the shoe out of the outfit entirely, then the gum sole puts one warm amber line back under it. It is the Nike you wear when you would rather not announce that you are wearing Nike.