The Cooper Flagg-Approved New Balance 950 Is Here
What to know
ClosetKept AI- New Balance 950 collaborates with Dallas Mavericks star Cooper Flagg, NBA Rookie of the Year.
- Hybrid design fuses 550 hoops aesthetic with T500 tennis sneaker silhouette and midsole construction.
- Two colorways available: Angora/Silver Moss and Angora/Shipyard at $120 retail price.
- Releases July 1, 2026 via New Balance website, Foot Locker, and select retailers.
- $10 price increase over the New Balance 550 model; lifestyle retro hoops shoe.
Sneaker trends are coming and going at an unprecedented pace, a not-so-indirect product of shortened attention spans in the social media era. Exhibit A: the New Balance 550, the market’s de facto “it shoe” of a few years back that seemingly evaporated from everyone’s rotation as quickly as it arrived. But New Balance isn’t abandoning the retro hoops aesthetic entirely, instead revamping it with a new lifestyle model and an assist from the reigning NBA Rookie of the Year.
Meet the New Balance 950, a slightly more streamlined take on the 550 rooted in the same ’80s hoops DNA. The best way to describe it is as a fusion of the 550 and the New Balance T500 tennis sneaker, borrowing the layering and midsole of the former while adopting the cleaner, more tapered shape of the latter.
New Balance has tapped Dallas Mavericks star Cooper Flagg to front the model in the lead-up to its debut, outfitting him with early pairs for his pregame tunnel fits last season. Two colorways are available now via the New Balance website, “Angora/Silver Moss” and “Angora/Shipyard.” The model comes in at $120, ten dollars more than the 550. See official images below alongside purchase links for each style.
