When LeBron James releases the LeBron 16, it will be his first shoe as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers, and sneakerheads worldwide are surely holding their collective breath to see if Nike can live up to our exceed expectations.
We might have gotten an early look at their attempts to do just that, as the LeBron 16 — or at least an early model of it — appeared to leak on Twitter on Tuesday morning:
Now these early samples aren’t always accurate. so this look could always change. But as some have pointed out, if the look stays the same, the LeBron 16 looks like a LeBron 15 mated with a KD 10, mixing the sole of the former with the top of the latter:
The above description is not a criticism.