Nick DePaula is a Creative director of Nice Kicks and NBA Features at ESPN.

Nick started his career as a Performance Product Tester at Nike Inc and AND1. From 2005 to 2014 he worked at Sole Collector, firstly as a Senior Writer/Performance Reviews and later as a Creative director / Editor-in-chief.

In 2013-2015, he was a Feature Writer at Slam. In 2016-2017, Nick served as a Feature Writer at Yahoo.

Currently, Nick is Creative director of Nice Kicks and NBA Features at ESPN.

In addition, he has own blog with sports interviews and reviews.

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In 2007 Nick received a B.Sc

in Journalism from University of Oregon. ^[2]