MAC ATTACK! A 540-degree dunk, that is one-and-a-half rotations in the air. 🤯. On the weekend, PUMA athlete Mac McClung accomplished three perfect scores out of four dunks at the NBA All-Star Dunk Contest wearing our PUMA Rise Nitro basketball kicks. You need to watch him!

Coming off a successful first year in elite French basketball, PUMA designed and produced jerseys in collaboration with local designer Soto for three additional BetClic Elite teams: the Metropolitans 92, Cholet Basket and Le Mans Sarthe-Basket.🏀 All three clubs play in LNB Pro A – the highest level of French basketball. The Metropolitans 92 were established in 2007 and are based in Levallois-Perret in Paris. Cholet Basket were established 1975 and are based in Cholet, while Le Mans Sarthe-Basket was established in 1993 and are based in Le Mans. They also play in the EuroCup, the second most important European competition of the Union of European Leagues of Basketball. Check out their new jerseys below!

PUMA’s Nitro strikes again! The technology behind our performance basketball sneakers has been applauded in an article from Forbes.  The review highlights Nitro technology as a definer of basketball at PUMA  – with the technology tying PUMA basketball to running and training. Our basketball shoes are ones you don’t want to miss out on!⚡️ According to Forbes, “PUMA developers have dissected the sweet spot that allows them to “nail the placement”, in order to decrease volume to shed weight.” The review notes our range of signature shoes, placing emphasis on our ability to adapt Nitro for each model. From having Nitro throughout the midsole of our 2022-23 season Rise Nitro shoes, to Nitro in the heel of our MB.01 shoes and heel and forefoot of our MB.02s, our Nitro foam has been adapted to every need.  Our fusion of pinnacle Nitro technology with other technology is also highlighted in the review. Our Fuzionfit, an adaptive compression band, and Pwrtape, kinesiology tape overlay for support, “includes zoned areas of strength to give lockdown on the footbed for stability, but also lateral movement.” Last but certainly not least, the article puts the personal storytelling of an athlete in the spotlight. The author admires the Stewie 1 for its focus on colour that “led PUMA to a two-layer neoprene mesh that allows the colours to pop through the top layer and tell the Seattle star’s story while ensuring weight reduction in the performance silhouette.”  Beautiful descriptions and an awesome review! We could not be prouder of our Nitro. You can read the article yourself here!

“Build Courts, Not Walls”! That´s the name of a programme by Veniceball. And we agree 100%! Veniceball started as a community tournament on the courts of Venice Beach and has since developed several initiatives that empower underprivileged communities, using basketball as a means to connect communities. PUMA proudly partners with Veniceball and here we present to you an important project – a PUMA Hoops court at the geographic border between Mexico and the USA. PUMA has collaborated with Veniceball since we first recognised their Venice Basketball League, a summer basketball league in Venice Beach California, four years ago. ´CATch up´ sat down with the founder of Veniceball and Hoopbus Nick Ansom to discuss their latest project on the USA-Mexico border. Looking to create a new basketball court to raise more attention on the migrant situation at the border, they created both a piece of art and place for exercise where people can come together for their joint love of the game. 🏀 With the court’s opening, Nick and his team also brought the Tijuana community 20 basketballs and 50 pairs of PUMA sneakers. 👟