The UNDTD x adidas Los Angeles will be available beginning Adidas Flux Black June 13th exclusively at Undefeated stores, and then globally at select adidas Consortium retailers on June 20th.Last we saw from French skateboarding star Lucas Puig's adidas pro model, he was offering a taste of what was to come in 2014's Stan Smith revival. ?This latest adidas Skateboarding Lucas Pro skips the tennis tie-in and moves from the land of  Image is Everything' into the  Obey Your Thirst' territory with a Sprite-ish mix of blue and neon green that always seems to satisfy come springtime. ?Click in to see how the mostly tonal upper and carefully placed vibrant pops make this one of the most attractive Lucas Pros yet, then cop yours at shops like Politics .

Lucas is no longer the most famous professional athlete with the surname Puig, but he is the first and only with a signature shoe. ?Puig's Rod Laver-inspired adidas Skateboarding Lucas Pro begins its second year with a couple of fall 2013 colorways, including one in tonal red with black on Adidas Football Cleats 2017 the heel and another in black and grey with adidas' own royal blue at the back. ?Both utilize gum soles for that classic skateboarding look and you can see them individually in greater detail after the jump.

Kris Aman, GM of adidas Global Basketball: That's one of the most exciting things about what adidas as a whole and what Adidas Eqt 93 17 adidas basketball is doing  when you have a brand that's wired around creativity and focusing on creators. That creates amazing opportunities. I think what you're seeing with the athletes is that they are grabbing that with both hands and wanting to partner not only with us, but one of the philosophies that we believe in pretty strongly around here is this idea of open-source partnerships. So what ends up happening is you have a brand that's wired around creators and creativity, athletes that are wired around how they create, and that's kind of cool because it's not just in their game, right? It's in their life and in their world.

And not just the future through Adidas Eqt Cushion Adv aesthetic, it's the future through how do you help an athlete play better. How do you get a baller a competitive advantage? The style and the flavor and the life side of the game is a big part of it too, and we have a lot of big things coming in the future. Our goal is to become the best basketball brand and we want to be the most creative basketball brand. And when we think about creating the future, all of those creative elements come together.

As far as where I think creativity comes from in general, I think everybody has it. At least what I see and what consumers tell us, and what our partners tell us is that the opportunity for adidas Basketball and adidas at large is to help people express their creativity. Everybody has it. What we want to do is partner with people in very engaging ways and sort of open up the tool box and invite them to partner with us so that we can create the future together. That's the secret sauce of it. Everybody has it. Just some people are more blessed to express it but I think what we see and the kind of approach we like to take is focusing on the fact that anybody can create.

You can create on the court and you can create in your life, and by doing that you can create in the world. And that's what gets us excited.Alex Zerzan has been with adidas for Adidas Eqt Support 93 17 almost a decade and has helped athletes get the most out of their footwear with innovative designs all while balancing performance and refined aesthetics. His role as adidas Crazy Explosive 17 Product Manager couldn't be more exciting with the current generation of signature athletes and new technologies from Boost, to Bounce, to Forged Primeknit ushering in more interest than ever for the brand. We took a few minutes out of Alex's more-than-hectic Las Vegas LVL 3 schedule to talk about working with designer Jesse Rademacher on the adidas Crazy Explosive 17, Damian Lillard's preference for Bounce over Boost, and more.