Nike Ja 3 "Uncle Phil"
Retail: $135 | Style Code: IH1097-400
Release Date: May 4th, 2026
Nike Ja 3 "Uncle Phil"
The village gets its flowers. The Nike Ja 3 "Uncle Phil" arrives as one of the most personally motivated colorways in Ja Morant's signature line — a shoe that steps away from the grind-and-prove-it themes that have defined earlier releases and turns toward gratitude, toward the people who were there before the draft, before the highlights, before the world knew the name. Ja Morant has never been quiet about the village that built him. The "Uncle Phil" is the colorway that makes that acknowledgment wearable.
The Blue Chill and Blue Legend navy knit base moves across the Ja 3's breathable upper with the relaxed, vacation-warm energy of a colorway inspired by tropical getaways and the specific kind of joy that only comes from family time that has nothing to do with basketball. Fire Red arrives at the Swoosh and select accent points with the warmth of a color that cuts through the cool blue base the way a sunset hits the water — vivid, precise, and entirely right. Zitron yellow-green completes the palette in the accent tone that gives the "Uncle Phil" its most tropical register, the three colors working together in the loose, vibrant language of somewhere warm, somewhere away from the season, somewhere Uncle Phil has always been waiting. The Ja signature branding sits throughout with the understated confidence of a shoe that knows the story it is telling and trusts the colors to carry it.
Full-length Hybrid ZoomX foam delivers the jet fuel energy return that Ja calls the most responsive cushioning he has ever played in — the same explosive platform beneath the "Uncle Phil" that carries him past defenders on the court, now carrying the memory of the people who made that possible off of it. The village raised him. The colorway remembers. Available May 4, 2026 at $135.