Marcus Thuram’s latest boots are modelled on a basketball shoe from 2013. Behind them lies one of Kevin Durant’s childhood memories – and a passion the Inter striker was already showing at Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Peanut butter, jelly and a basketball shoe from 2013: that’s the recipe behind Marcus Thuram’s latest football boots. The France international debuted a custom Nike Mercurial Superfly inspired by Kevin Durant’s KD 6 “Peanut Butter & Jelly” in Inter Milan’s 2-0 win over Como – and it took him 19 minutes to put Inter two up in them.
The one-off pair is the work of customiser LeoCustomX, who unveiled it on Instagram as a special custom for Thuram. He carried the basketball shoe’s colourway across to the Mercurial, with yellow and black panels set against purple and gold Swooshes. The yellow heel carries Durant’s KD logo and LeoCustomX’s signature.
Kevin Durant’s KD 6: A Basketball Shoe Inspired by a Sandwich
The original goes back to Seat Pleasant, Maryland, where Durant grew up. As a kid, he loved peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, whether as an after-school snack at the local rec centre or at his Aunt Pearl’s house. His mum, his grandma or his aunt made them. That was how Nike told the story when the shoe dropped in October 2013.
Nike translated that childhood memory into a basketball shoe. The upper came in warm peanut-butter tones, and the Swoosh was made to look like a smear of grape jelly – according to Nike, the first food-themed Swoosh in the company’s history.
Nike brought the KD 6 “Peanut Butter & Jelly” back in March 2026, more than 12 years after the original release. Some eight months later, the colourway has made it to San Siro.
From Travis Scott to Kevin Durant
Thuram has been here before. In November 2021, while still at Borussia Mönchengladbach, he had a Nike Mercurial Vapor 14 made in the image of one of his favourite sneakers: the Air Jordan 1 that Travis Scott created with Fragment Design.
French company Footpack and designer Joaquim Soub handled the build. They recreated the white-and-blue colourway and the reversed Swoosh, Travis Scott’s signature, and swapped “Cactus Jack”, the name of Scott’s label, for “Marcus Jack” on the heel.
Back in 2021, Thuram put his own name on a rapper’s logo. Five years later, he’s wearing a basketball player’s initials on his heel – and a design rooted in an afternoon snack in Maryland.
