Nike JA 3 "Tri-State"
Retail: $135 | Style Code: IQ6705-001
Release Date: March 19th, 2026
Home runs deep. The Nike JA 3 "Tri-State" is Ja Morant's ode to the geography that made him — the stretch of the American South where Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas meet at the Mississippi River, a region that does not always make the headlines but has produced more than its share of the people who do. The third signature colorway goes back to the beginning, to the courts and the communities that shaped the player before the league knew his name.
The palette draws from the land itself — deep river blue, Mississippi mud brown, and a warm off-white that references the cotton fields and open skies of the Tri-State region, applied across the JA 3's performance upper with the kind of geographic specificity that transforms a colorway into a coordinate. Tri-State regional details work through the lining, the insole graphic, and the co-branding in a narrative thread that connects the shoe to the story without overwhelming the performance architecture it sits on. The JA 3's explosive cushioning platform, dynamic fit system, and multidirectional traction pattern remain at the center — built for the player whose game has always been defined by what it feels like to be completely uncontainable.
Ja Morant has never hidden where he comes from, and the "Tri-State" does not ask him to. Some players build a signature line around an image. Morant builds his around a truth — that the Tri-State made something the rest of the world is still trying to keep up with. The JA 3 lands in that spirit: rooted, proud, and moving at a speed that the region always knew was in him. The river runs through it. So does everything else.