{"id":348267,"date":"2013-11-22T08:16:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T14:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?page_id=348267"},"modified":"2022-09-13T02:01:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T07:01:54","slug":"lebron-james-nike-basketball","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/lebron-james-nike-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>LeBron James<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Nike<\/strong>\u00a0set a new record for the biggest shoe contract of all time when then an 18 year old high schooler signed a 7 year, $90 Million deal with Nike who had not played a single NBA game.<\/p>\n<p>In his rookie season, LeBron James played in the Nike Air Zoom Generation, but subsequent years followed with a sequential number for each shoe making the AZG the unofficial LeBron 1. \u00a0The AZG was designed by Eric Avar, the LeBron II-VI were designed by Ken Link, and LeBron VII-11 have been designed by Jason Petrie.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100px; height: 115px;\" align=\"center\"><a title=\"Nike Air Zoom Generation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/tag\/nike-air-zoom-generation\/\">Nike Air Zoom Generation<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25px; text-align: center;\">\u00a0 <a title=\"Nike Zoom LeBron II 2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/tag\/nike-zoom-lebron-ii\/\">Nike Zoom LeBron II<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 100px; height: 115px;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2023\/12\/404-dead-image.jpg'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2011\/10\/Zoom-Lebron-3-White-Black-Varsity-Crimson.jpg\" alt=\"Zoom Lebron 3 White Black Varsity Crimson\" width=\"200\" height=\"135\" \/>Nike Zoom LeBron III<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100px; height: 115px;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/tag\/nike-zoom-lebron-iv-4\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2023\/12\/404-dead-image.jpg'\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-187410\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2011\/10\/Zoom-Lebron-4-All-Star-Game1.jpg\" alt=\"Zoom Lebron 4 All Star Game\" width=\"200\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><a title=\"nike zoom lebron iv 4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/tag\/nike-zoom-lebron-iv-4\/\">Nike Zoom LeBron IV<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25px; text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2023\/12\/404-dead-image.jpg'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2011\/10\/Zoom-Lebron-5-Black-White-Varsity-Crimson-Black.jpg\" alt=\"Zoom Lebron 5 Black White Varsity Crimson Black\" width=\"200\" height=\"135\" \/>Nike Zoom LeBron V<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 100px; height: 115px;\" align=\"center\"><a title=\"nike zoom lebron vi 6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/tag\/nike-zoom-lebron-vi-6\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2023\/12\/404-dead-image.jpg'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2011\/10\/Zoom-Lebron-6-United-We-Rise.jpg\" alt=\"Zoom Lebron 6 United We Rise\" width=\"200\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><a title=\"nike zoom lebron vi 6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/tag\/nike-zoom-lebron-vi-6\/\">Nike Zoom LeBron VI<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100px; height: 115px;\" align=\"center\"><a title=\"nike air max lebron vii\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/tag\/nike-air-max-lebron-vii-7\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2023\/12\/404-dead-image.jpg'\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-187800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2011\/10\/Air-Max-Lebron-7-White-Black-Varsity-Red.jpg\" alt=\"Air Max Lebron 7 White Black Varsity Red\" width=\"200\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><a title=\"nike air max lebron vii 7 \" href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/tag\/nike-air-max-lebron-vii-7\/\">Nike Air Max LeBron VII<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25px; text-align: center;\"><a title=\"nike zoom lebron viii 8 \" href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/tag\/nike-lebron-8\/\">Nike Zoom LeBron VIII<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 100px; height: 115px;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/tag\/nike-lebron-9-ix\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2023\/12\/404-dead-image.jpg'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2012\/09\/NIKE_LEBRON_9_AS_GALAXY_1-325x200.jpg\" alt=\"Nike LeBron 9 &quot;Galaxy&quot;\" width=\"199\" height=\"123\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"nike lebron xi 9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/tag\/nike-lebron-9-ix\/\">Nike LeBron IX<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25px;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 25px;\">\u00a0<a title=\"nike lebron x 10 \" href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/tag\/nike-lebron-x-10\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2023\/12\/404-dead-image.jpg'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2012\/10\/lebron-x-crown-jewels-2.jpg\" alt=\"lebron-x-crown-jewels 2\" width=\"200\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"nike lebron x 10\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/tag\/nike-lebron-x-10\/\">Nike LeBron X<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 100px; height: 115px;\" align=\"center\">\u00a0<a title=\"Nike LeBron 11\" href=\"\/air-jordans\/air-jordan-10\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a title=\"nike lebron 11\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/tag\/nike-lebron-11\/\">Nike LeBron 11<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James\u00a0and\u00a0Nike\u00a0set a new record for the biggest shoe contract of all time when then an 18 year old high&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"2":"type-page"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.0 (Yoast SEO v24.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>LeBron James Shoes | Snkrs Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/lebron-james-nike-basketball\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LeBron James Shoes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LeBron James\u00a0and\u00a0Nike\u00a0set a new record for the biggest shoe contract of all time when then an 18 year old high&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/lebron-james-nike-basketball\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Snkrs Day\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NiceKicks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-09-13T07:01:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2011\/10\/Zoom-Lebron-3-White-Black-Varsity-Crimson.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@snkrsday\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"WebPage\",\"ItemPage\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/lebron-james-nike-basketball\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/lebron-james-nike-basketball\/\",\"name\":\"LeBron James Shoes | Snkrs Day\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/lebron-james-nike-basketball\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/lebron-james-nike-basketball\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2011\/10\/Zoom-Lebron-3-White-Black-Varsity-Crimson.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-11-22T14:16:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-13T07:01:54+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/lebron-james-nike-basketball\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/lebron-james-nike-basketball\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/lebron-james-nike-basketball\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2011\/10\/Zoom-Lebron-3-White-Black-Varsity-Crimson.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2011\/10\/Zoom-Lebron-3-White-Black-Varsity-Crimson.jpg\",\"width\":\"200\",\"height\":\"135\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/lebron-james-nike-basketball\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"LeBron James Shoes\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/\",\"name\":\"Snkrs Day\",\"description\":\"Sneakers News. Culture. Community.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Snkrs Day\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2020\/10\/nice-box-400-225.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2020\/10\/nice-box-400-225.png\",\"width\":400,\"height\":225,\"caption\":\"Snkrs Day\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NiceKicks\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/nicekicks\",\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nicekicks\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/asnkrsdaya\",\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@snkrsday\",\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/nicekicks\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"LeBron James Shoes | Snkrs Day","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/lebron-james-nike-basketball\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"LeBron James Shoes","og_description":"LeBron James\u00a0and\u00a0Nike\u00a0set a new record for the biggest shoe contract of all time when then an 18 year old high&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/lebron-james-nike-basketball\/","og_site_name":"Snkrs Day","article_publisher":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/snkrsday","article_modified_time":"2022-09-13T07:01:54+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2011\/10\/Zoom-Lebron-3-White-Black-Varsity-Crimson.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_site":"@snkrsday","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":["WebPage","ItemPage"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/lebron-james-nike-basketball\/","url":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/lebron-james-nike-basketball\/","name":"LeBron James Shoes | Snkrs Day","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/lebron-james-nike-basketball\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/lebron-james-nike-basketball\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2011\/10\/Zoom-Lebron-3-White-Black-Varsity-Crimson.jpg","datePublished":"2013-11-22T14:16:54+00:00","dateModified":"2022-09-13T07:01:54+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/lebron-james-nike-basketball\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/lebron-james-nike-basketball\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/lebron-james-nike-basketball\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2011\/10\/Zoom-Lebron-3-White-Black-Varsity-Crimson.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2011\/10\/Zoom-Lebron-3-White-Black-Varsity-Crimson.jpg","width":"200","height":"135"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/lebron-james-nike-basketball\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"News","item":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"LeBron James Shoes"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/","name":"Snkrs Day","description":"Sneakers News. Culture. Community.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#organization","name":"Snkrs Day","url":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2020\/10\/nice-box-400-225.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2020\/10\/nice-box-400-225.png","width":400,"height":225,"caption":"Snkrs Day"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/snkrsday","https:\/\/x.com\/snkrsday","http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/snkrsday","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/asnkrsdaya","https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@snkrsday","http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/snkrsday"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/348267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/348267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100627,"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/348267\/revisions\/1100627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}