Dylan Harper's TITAN x Nike Air Zoom GT Cut EP "Daybreak" Pays Homage To His Filipino Roots

Name: Dylan Harper x TITAN x Nike Air Zoom G.T. Cut EP “Daybreak”
Colorway: Bleached Aqua/Cashmere/Sport Gold/Chile Red/Metallic Silver/Glacier Blue
SKU: IU0779-400
MSRP: $200 USD
Release Date: June 17
Where to Buy: TITAN

Nike, TITAN, and San Antonio Spurs rising star Dylan Harper have unveiled “Daybreak,” the first colorway in the Nike Air Zoom GT Cut EP “DUSK 2 DAWN” series, releasing June 17. The light blue upper and soft gradients on the Swoosh draw directly from a sunrise over Bataan, the Philippine province that is the hometown of Harper’s mother, making the colorway a tribute to both his Filipino heritage and the values she instilled in him.

The colorway’s design brief is specific and personal. Bataan is not a generic cultural reference but a precise geographic anchor — Harper’s mother’s hometown — and the decision to build the “Daybreak” colorway around its morning light connects the shoe to a particular place and a particular influence rather than to Filipino heritage in the abstract. The light blue upper carries the calm of that sunrise, while the soft gradients on the Swoosh introduce a warmth that shifts the palette without disrupting its serenity. The GT Cut EP’s performance-first construction holds the colorway’s narrative without competing with it: the shoe is built for the court, and the color is built for the story behind the player on it.

That story is the “DUSK 2 DAWN” narrative’s organizing principle. For Harper, basketball is a 24-hour pursuit, and the three-colorway series maps his journey from top prospect to professional pillar across the arc from dusk to dawn. “Daybreak” opens that arc at the moment of transition — the hours before the world sees the result of the work that has already been done. The values the colorway honors — humility, resilience, and an unrelenting drive to rise — are framed explicitly as a Filipino inheritance, passed from mother to son and from the province of Bataan to the San Antonio Spurs.

The collaboration launches alongside the TITAN Daybreak Tournament, giving the shoe a live basketball context at its moment of release. TITAN, the Manila-based basketball collective founded in 2010, has spent more than a decade building itself into the cultural authority on hoops and sneaker culture in the Philippines, and its Nike collaborations have consistently used that platform to tell stories rooted in the archipelago’s relationship with the game. Dylan Harper’s Filipino heritage makes him a natural subject for that storytelling — a player whose roots connect directly to the community TITAN was built to serve, now competing at the highest level of professional basketball.