Nike didn’t waste time in giving the new Vapor 12 a distinct throwback theme, releasing the Vapor 12 Hypersmash ahead of Indian Wells. The shoe is a play on the Hyperdunk basketball shoe from 2008. Nike took the Vapor 12 technology and gave it a colorway to celebrate the “shared respect between hoopers and hard-court stars.” The design takes the popular 2008 Hyperdunk basketball colorway—even re-creating the key Flywire look on the upper with a haptic print on the Vapor 12—and tosses it atop the latest shoe from Nike’s Vapor line. Past Vapor X basketball inspirations include the 2019 Vapor X x Kyrie 5 design based on a signature basketball shoe from Kyrie Irving that was worn on court by Nick Kyrgios and the famed Vapor 9 x Jordan 3 mash-up worn by Roger Federer at the U.S. Open in 2017 (he had previously worn a similar design in 2014).