His first few years in the league, Shai immersed himself in high fashion: climbing the Met Gala steps; walking a Thom Browne show in Paris; peppering Virgil Abloh with design questions over text. These days, though, he’s mostly over the luxury brand stuff. “You go to Rodeo Drive and every NBA player is there fighting to get the same pieces, you know what I mean?” Shai says. “You can always tell when someone has real taste and when they’re just wearing it because it was on Instagram.” The few guys he looks up to, fashion-wise, have that authenticity in spades: 2Pac, Kanye, A$AP Rocky, Lil Yachty. “You can see who they are in what they wear.”

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