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From the Vault: Nike SB Dunk Low “Supa”

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From the Vault: Nike SB Dunk Low “Supa”

A look at one of the first, and still greatest, Nike SB Dunks of all time.

Matt DeSciora

The New York Mets have always lived in the New York Yankees’ shadow. The numbers speak for themselves: the Mets two World Series championships pale in comparison to the Yankees’ twenty seven titles. Where the Yankees have twenty four players enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame, only two players, Tom Seaver and Mike Piazza, wear the Mets’ interlocking blue-and-orange “NY” hat in Cooperstown. There are even more comparisons that could be made, but the bottom line is this: No matter how you slice it, the Yankees have historically been the more successful baseball team.

But the Mets have a leg up on the Yankees in one, very meaningful regard. It’s the Mets—not the Yankees—that are the inspiration for one of the earliest, most sought after Nike SB Dunks: the “Supa.”

Courtesy of pro skater Danny Supasiritat—commonly known as Supa—the SB Dunk Low “Supa” was one of the silhouette’s first-ever releases back in March 2002. The “Supa” spearheaded the “Colors By” series that saw popular skaters like Supa, Richard Mulder, Reese Forbes, and more design Dunks in exciting, lifestyle-based colorways that were very much a reflection of each skater’s personality.

Supa’s Dunk is a nod to his hometown Mets, the team he grew up rooting for despite living in the Bronx—which is Yankees territory—and Florida for much of his childhood. Its white, blue, and orange color scheme is also a salute to the New York Knicks, who famously share the same team colors as the Mets. Whichever way you choose to look at it, the “Supa” Dunk puts on for New York City to the fullest.

Well, most of New York City, anyway. Maybe just not the Yankees.

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Richard Mulder skating in the “Supa” Dunks