The 2026 NBA draft was a major moment for Reebok. With the revival of its basketball division, the brand already has a “face of the franchise” on the women’s side, with WNBA finalist and perhaps soon-to-be champ Angel Reese developing her signature shoe throughout the past year or so. It’s no discredit to current brand wearers like Matas Buzelis or Tre Mann, but we already knew that the first men’s signature athlete would come from this year’s talent pool, as Darius Acuff’s NIL deal confirmed a sig shoe before he ever logged a minute in the NBA.

With Acuff sporting a fire red colorway of the Reebok Engine A for his regular-season debut as a King , it’s only right that his cohort peer follows suit. Nate Ament will touch the floor in Milwaukee to begin his rookie campaign time wearing a “Brew Crew” colorway of the Reebok Engine A 26, the follow-up to the brand’s first basketball design in a decade-plus.…