Jurassic Park x Nike Ja 3 "Raptor"
Retail: $135 | Style Code: IU7240-001
Release Date: April 10th, 2026
Jurassic Park x Nike Ja 3 "Raptor"
The most feared predator in the park gets its shoe. The Jurassic Park x Nike Ja 3 "Raptor" takes the darker, more dangerous half of the collaboration pack and builds it around the creature that made Isla Nublar's real threat clear — not the T. rex, not the chaos theory, but the Velociraptor, the hunter that moves in coordinated silence and arrives from angles you were not watching. Ja Morant plays that way. The "Raptor" was built for exactly that player.
The anthracite base sets the tone immediately — a dark, predatory foundation across the Ja 3's breathable mesh upper that the yellow ochre overlays cut through in jagged, textured patterns referencing raptor skin, the gradient fading from gold to near-black in the kind of color shift that rewards attention without demanding it. The layered build adds visual dimension that photographs as aggressive and wears as intentional, the texture sitting between scaled and claw-marked in the language of a franchise that has always known what its most compelling creature looks like in motion. A bright crimson Swoosh slices down the lateral panel with the sharp conviction of a design decision that makes the darker upper come alive — paired with a matching stylized "A" that completes Ja's signature branding in the color of something that has already made its move. Mismatched tongue branding — Ja Morant on one shoe, Jurassic Park on the other — connects both identities without forcing either to yield, the collaboration wearing both names with equal authority. Velociraptors printed across the insoles complete the narrative for the wearer who opens the box and looks inside.
The full-length Hybrid ZoomX foam, multidirectional outsole with allover mini Ja logos, and the Ja 3's explosive performance architecture sit beneath the "Raptor" treatment unchanged — the same jet fuel beneath the franchise's most calculating predator. The "Explorer" announces the park. The "Raptor" owns it.