Veterans changing teams is always a major focus of any offseason, and a resulting plotline is how footwear brands respond to their new environments. It’s not as often that we can discuss a new face without a built-up cachet in the league. The rookie signature shoe is a fewer-and-farther-between proposition, but it’s something that Sacramento fans can look forward to as Arkansas phenom Darius Acuff finds himself in the purple and white. We may have to wait a bit longer yet to see the Reebok Acuff 1, yet the American company still has something in store as he logs his first NBA minutes.

In this renewed version of Reebok Hoops, it’s been the Engine series that’s held down the basketball roster outside of Angel Reese’s own design. Though the series has since been iterated on with the Reebok Engine A 26, Acuff reaches for the original Engine A, understandably, as he explains his personal connection to the silhouette:

The Engine A was the shoe that brought me to the brand.…