Sneaker Wars take a break as Nike, Under Armour not directly competing in August (UPDATED)

NEW YORK — The sneaker wars are taking a break this summer.

Under Armour and Nike won’t go head-to-head with their events in August because each sneaker company is holding a showcase event on a different weekend next month.

For the last couple of years, Nike has held an event in the Bahamas that competed directly with the Under Armour Elite 24 Game in late August, the idea being to draw attention from the Elite 24.

Under Armour is shifting its Elite 24 Game to the San Francisco Bay area and will fold it into the Steph Curry SC30 Select camp Aug. 6-8, as first reported by ZAGSBLOG.

Under Armour announced Wednesday that “the first-ever SC30 Select Showcase” will air on Tuesday (Aug. 8) at 9 p.m. ET on ESPNU.

Stephen Curry and his brother Seth Curry of the Dallas Mavericks will each coach a team, with fellow Under Armour athletes Josh Jackson and Emmanuel Mudiay serving as assistant coaches. Rosters are below.

The event includes several New York/New Jersey area standouts in Moses Brown, Naz Reid, Jahvon Quinerly, Precious Achiuwa, Bryan Antoine and Scottie Lewis.

Last year the Elite 24 Game was held Aug. 20 in Brooklyn, where New York native Isaiah Washington (Minnesota) took home MVP honors. The event has also been held in Los Angeles and Charlotte.

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Meantime, adidias will also hold its Adidas Nations event Aug. 4-8 in Houston.

Nike will hold an event called “The Academy” in Thousand Oaks, Calif., Aug. 19 that it advertised on ESPN’s coverage of the Peach Jam final on Sunday. The event purportedly will feature 18 of the top 20 players in the nation.

The crown jewel of the Nike summer circuit, the Peach Jam in North Augusta, S.C., completed with the Oakland Soldiers beating Team Takeover in the final.

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WE-R1 won the Under Armour 17U championship near Atlanta. Under Armor will host its All-American Camp later this week at Philadelphia University.

Congratulations, @WeR1Basketball

Back to back UAA 17U Champs. #StartYourStory pic.twitter.com/4uevx82Vce

— UAA (@UAassociation) July 15, 2017

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Meantime, sources said the Big Strick Classic that has been held in New York the last several years with high-profile players is not slated to go in 2017.

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STEPH CURRY SC30 SELECT SHOWCASE

TEAM TCC (BLACK)

#	NAME	POS	HGT	CLASS	HOMETOWN
0	Elijah Weaver	G	6’5″	2018	Cocoa, FL
1	Moses Brown	C	7’1″	2018	Queens, NY
2	Eric Ayala	PG	6’3″	2018	Wilmington, DE
3	Naz Reid	PF	6’10”	2018	Asbury Park, NJ
4	Cassius Stanley	G	6’6″	2019	Los Angeles, CA
5	Jahvon Quinerly	PG	6’1″	2018	Hackensack, NJ
10	Keldon Johnson	SG	6’6″	2018	South Hill, VA
11	Shareef O’Neal	F	6’9″	2018	Los Angeles, CA
12	Precious Achiuwa	SF	6’9″	2019	Bronx, NY
15	Joey Baker	SG	6’7″	2019	Fayetteville, NC
20	Chol Marial	C	7’1″	2019	Cheshire, CT (South Sudan)
22	Anfernee Simons	SG	6’3″	2018	Altamonte Springs, FL
23	Scottie Lewis	SG	6’5″	2019	Hazlet, NJ

 

COACHES

Stephen Curry	HC
Bruce Fraser	Asst
Shonn Brown	Asst
Brandon Payne	Asst
Josh Jackson	Asst

TEAM JUST US (WHITE)

#	NAME	POS	HGT	CLASS	HOMETOWN
0	Tyler Harris	PG	5’10”	2018	Memphis, TN
1	Bryan Antoine	SG	6’5″	2019	Tinton Falls, NJ
2	Aaron Wiggins	SG	6’6″	2018	Greensboro, NC
3	Prentiss Hubb	PG	6’3″	2018	Upper Marlboro, MD
4	Devon Dotson	PG	6’2″	2018	Charlotte, NC
6	Josh Green	SG	6’5″	2019	Phoenix, AZ (Australia)
9	Bol Bol	PF/C	7’1″	2018	Santa Ana, CA
10	Darius Garland	PG	6’2″	2018	Nashville, TN
12	Silvio De Sousa	PF/C	6’9″	2018	Bradenton, FL (Angola)
22	Cam Reddish	G	6’7″	2018	Norristown, PA
23	Jeremiah Robinson-Earl	PF	6’9″	2019	Kansas City, KS
24	Chris Herren, Jr	SG	6’3″	2019	Portsmouth, RI
33	Jontay Porter	F	6’10”	2018	Columbia, MO

 

COACHES

Seth Curry	HC
Fran Fraschilla	Asst
Emmanuel Mudiay	Asst
Tim Legler	Asst
Rob McClanaghan	Asst