{"id":203847,"date":"2012-02-24T10:38:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T16:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicekicks.com\/?p=203847"},"modified":"2022-09-16T04:27:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T09:27:29","slug":"kicks-on-court-2-24-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/kicks-on-court-2-24-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Kicks On Court: King James Debuts &#8220;Black History Month&#8221; Nike LeBron 9 On Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were wondering when or if Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant and\/or LeBron James would debut their Black History Month sneakers on court seeing that the month of February is winding down. Last night, King James granted our wishes by rocking his &#8220;Black History Month&#8221; <strong>LeBron 9<\/strong> in a win against the New York Knicks on national television. If you recall, the Nike Basketball &#8220;Black History Month&#8221; Collection released a couple of weeks ago to many sneaker enthusiast&#8217;s excitement. View these kicks plus more, worn by Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony, Tim Duncan and others, below.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_203863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203863\" style=\"width: 608px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-203863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LeBron James wearing the Nike LeBron 9 &quot;Black History Month&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_203863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203863\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-203863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LeBron James attacking the rim in the Nike LeBron 9 &quot;Black History Month&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_203863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203863\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-203863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LeBron James in the Nike LeBron 9 &quot;Black History Month&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_203863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203863\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-203863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LeBron James defending in the Nike LeBron 9 &quot;Black History Month&quot; and Carmelo Anthony posting up in the Jordan Melo M8<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_203863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203863\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-203863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LeBron James shooting in the Nike LeBron 9 &quot;Black History Month&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_203863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203863\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-203863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dwyane Wade defending in the Jordan Fly Wade 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_203863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203863\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-203863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Norris Cole and Baron Davis in the Nike Zoom LeBron Soldier V and the Li-Ning BD Doom, respectively<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_203863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203863\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-203863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amar&#39;e Stoudemire wearing a new colorway of the Nike Air Max Sweep Thru<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_203863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203863\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-203863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kawhi Leonard wearing the Nike Zoom Rookie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_203863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203863\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-203863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremy Lin and Chris Bosh in the Nike Zoom Hyperfuse 2011 Low and the Nike Air Max Hyperdunk 2011, respectively<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_203863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203863\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-203863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Smith and Dwight Howard in the adidas adiZero Shadow and the adidas adiPower Howard 2, respectively<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_203863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203863\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-203863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Duncan in the adidas Misterfly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_203863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203863\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-203863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Durant posting up in the Nike Zoom KD IV<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_203863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203863\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-203863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russell Westbrook shooting in the Nike Zoom Hyperfuse 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_203863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203863\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-203863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Harden in the Nike Zoom Hyperfuse 2011 Low<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_203863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203863\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-203863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spike Lee standing courtside at the Knicks vs. Heat game while wearing the orange Jordan Spizike &quot;New York Knicks&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Black History Month sneaker finally appears on court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":203868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[835],"tags":[1225551],"cultivate_rss":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"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>Kicks On Court: King James Debuts &quot;Black History Month&quot; 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