A.J. Dybantsa didn’t just pull up under the TD Garden lights – he hijacked the spotlight with a pair of neck-craning PEs. The Brockton-bred bucket machine laced up a wild new Nike GT Future, giving us yet another close-up of the Swoosh's next big performance weapon.
The base mirrors the upcoming ‘Metallic Silver’ retail colourway, but the PE goes full-court press mode: a silver upper blasted with a green-to-silver fade through the midsole, a green Swoosh on the tongue, and a golden-yellow hit on the heel and medial side. It’s equal parts hardwood heat check and Boston flex – a make-you-lean-in kind of colourway.
Tech-wise, the GT Future is stacked. We’re talking forefoot Zoom Air, full-length Zoom Strobel, and a Cushlon 3.0 midsole that’s built to snap back every time Dybantsa tries to erase someone at the rim. It’s low, fast, springy, and exactly the kind of silhouette Nike would pin to a young star they fully expect to be headlining arenas in a few years.
The GT Future itself is shaping up to be the next big swing in Nike’s Greater Than (GT) lineage – the experimental playground responsible for some of the brand's most unhinged performance tech over the past few years. After the GT Cut, GT Jump, and GT Hustle carved out their own niches, Nike shifted gears for 2025, building the GT Future as a hybrid engine designed for players who live above the rim and slither through traffic.
Nike’s first official GT Future drop lands on December 20, 2025. Whether Dybantsa’s PE ever escapes the locker room is anyone’s guess, but you can bank on a rim-rattling wave of GT Future colourways rolling out in the months ahead.
For more cosmic hooping, make sure to check out Wemby’s cosmic cow print GT Hustle 3 – straight from the Milky Way to the hardwood.