Nike Dunk Low Pro SB Raygun Home

In 2005, Nike published Raygun which has black and white colors. Black edition is NA home game color, and white edition is Asia away game color. The full name of Raygun is Roswell Raygun. On July 5th of 1947, an UFO crashed on New Mexico state, Roswell. Roswell therefore became a famous place. Raygun was inspired by this supernatural event. In 2002, in the memory of the return of street basketball fashion, Nike published an advertisement called "Rucker Park". Vince Carter, Stackhouse, Baron Davis, Paul Pierce and Jermaine O'Neal showed up in this advertisement. In this Ad, they all belong to a team called Roswell Raygun--a team that is created by Nike and doesn’t exist in the real world. As NBA players have impressive talent in basketball, people tend to call them “Aliens' ', and that is where the inspiration of this fictional basketball team came from. The SB Dunk Raygun was published to commemorate this advertisement, The color palette originated from the Raygun uniform: yellow red black(home game) and yellow red white(away game). There is a logo of Raygun on the side of the heel--a little alien that has two raygun on his hands and a basketball as his head. Raygun has a children edition but is only limited as black NA edition. Three years before the official publication of Raygun, the samples of black and white had already existed. The Sample was produced on December 3rd of 2002, and it's said that the total amount of black samples is four pairs. The word “sample” can be found inside Sample edition, and it also has different shoelace compared to general released edition--Sample edition has green and white shoelace, while massive produce edition has white and black edition. Besides, the leather edges of the general released edition is white, yet the Sample has black leather edges. On the tongue of Sample edition, there is a printed “Nike”, but on the tongue of the massive produce edition the word becomes “Nike SB”. The price of a Sample edition on Ebay used to reach an astonishing price of $5500. Raygun is rich in peripheral products such as caps, hoodies(deceased creator of SB Dunk Sandy Bodecker used to wear a Raygun jacket, and this inspired the re-edition of 2019), T-shirt, bracer, track pants, Polo shirt, and sports jacket. During the Golden Box Era, Nike published socks that shared the same palette with Raygun to shout out to this classic series. The container of the socks is a golden tiny SB Dunk box. In 2012, Nike published three raygun basketball shoes that belong to Raygun series to commemorate this epic story. On the tongue of Raygun re-edition of 2019, number 58 is printed. This number looks like “SB”, and by adding 58 with 1947--the year that the Roswell incident happened--we can get 2005, the year that the first Raygun was published.

Nike在2005年发售了拥有黑白两种配色的Raygun。黑色版本是北美主场配色，白色版本是亚洲客场配色。这双鞋的全称为罗斯威尔光枪队。传说在1947年7月5日，美国新墨西哥州的罗斯威尔地区发生了UFO坠毁事件。这个事件有许多不同的版本，久而久之，一些UFO爱好者和阴谋论爱好者便把神化了罗斯威尔事件，使罗斯维尔变成了一个世界著名的地区。这双鞋的设计灵感便有一部分来自于这个著名事件。在2002年，Nike为了纪念街球风潮的回归，推出了一部叫做Rucker Park的广告。这则广告的代言人包括著名球星文斯卡特，斯塔克豪斯，巴朗戴维斯，保罗皮尔斯以及小奥尼尔。在广告中他们所效力于一支虚构的，名为罗斯威尔光枪队的球队。由于NBA（ABA）球星都有着惊人的篮球天赋，所以很多人把他们称为外星人，而Nike就以外星人作为灵感，虚构了这支球队。这次发售的SB Dunk就是对这支广告的致敬。其配色来源于罗斯威尔光枪队球衣上的黄红黑（主场球衣）和黄红白（客场球衣）。鞋跟侧面印有一个罗斯威尔光枪队的logo——一个双手持有光枪的小外星人，外星人的头部是一个篮球。除此之外，这双鞋还发售了童鞋版本，不过仅限于黑色北美主场，这也是为数不多的一次SB Dunk进行童鞋发售。在这双鞋发售的三年前就已经有了黑色和白色的Sample。Sample版本生产于2002年12月3日，据说全球只有四双。Sample的鞋帮里侧印有“sample”的字样，而且Sample版本还拥有着不同于市售版本的鞋带。市售版本附赠的是黑白两色鞋带，而Sample版本则会附赠绿色鞋带。此外，黑色市售版本皮革的包边是白色的，而黑色Sample版本皮革的包边是黑色的。Sample版本的鞋舌上写着Nike，而在市售版本的鞋舌上写的则是Nike SB。Sample版本在ebay的拍卖价格曾经达到惊人的5500美元。这双鞋拥有无比丰富的周边，包括帽子，帽衫（已故的SB Dunk创始人Sandy Bodecker曾经身着扎染版本的raygun帽衫，这也成为了2019年复刻版本的配色灵感），T恤，护腕，运动裤，Polo衫，运动夹克。在金盒时期，Nike发售了一双raygun配色的袜子用以致敬，袜子的包装是金色的SB Dunk迷你盒子。2012年，Nike发售了三双raygun系列的篮球鞋来致敬这个故事。 还有一个小彩蛋，2019复刻款的raygun鞋舌的里侧印有58的字样，这两个数字看起来很像“SB”。而罗斯威尔事件发生于1947年，加上58，就等于raygun元年款发售的时间2005年。