LeBron XI WTL(US 9/13), Maison Collection(8/23) - Updated 8/18

[domosirchazzo]

Lmao @ all the overreactions.

Now how many of the people claiming that this little dilemma will hurt LebronXI sales and are anticipating price cuts, will be super salty once they strike out on the Forging irons

...at $250? I'm guessing all of them lol

I don't have a problem with people who like to see Lebron wear the shoes that are available to us, I get it.

But it is ridiculous to think that everyone, or even the majority, buys shoes for the same reasons that you do.

Nike will be alright.

 

[sneakersnake12]

Any pics of what he's wearing?

Didn't he switch to the Xs in that commercial also?[/

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[combo gd]

Any reaction  from Nike or anyone else acknowledging an issue or giving reasoning for him not wearing them?

 

[kdawg0508]

Game 1: All 4 quarters
Game 2: 2 quarters
Game 3: 1 quarter
Game 4: No quarters
Game 5: ?

Game 5: -1 quarters if the trend continues.

 

[T0INE]

I think Lebron lets Jason Petrie do all the work during the design process because he is 100% clueless when it comes to shoe technology. His job is to play ball, not know about Hyperfuse, Flywire, Lunarlon, Zoom, etc.

I'm confident that Nike's Big 3 and other basketball players with their own signature shoes like Melo, CP3, Rose etc. have some input into design of their shoes. Just how much input is the question.

As for the "controversy" of LeBron not wearing the XIs in games, personally I don't care. LeBron wearing or not wearing a particular shoe or colorway doesn't effect my opinion of them, good or bad. Out of the 7 pairs of Xs I have now, LeBron has only worn 3 of them in a game.

That said, I understand why this is an issue for some people.

Nike Basketball's top athlete reluctant to wear his new, heavily promoted, very expensive sig shoe. It's not a good look.

 

[T0INE]

Hold up.

Please don't tell me that LeBron finally wore  the White/Black/Gold X Elites tonight?

First class troll.

 

[ronsweedroom]

I'll tell why...cause the shoe cause lebron toe!

Don't care what kick-genius said or what you guys are saying that say they're comfortable. The toe box is suffocating to no end.

 

[calye2da]

Jason Petrie Era about to come to an end??

Let's hope not he's lebron's tinker

 

[macky]

This thread will implode when Lebron starts wearing Soldier/Ambassadors over the XI.

I lol'd

Any pics of what he's wearing?

Didn't he switch to the Xs in that commercial also?

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Here you go.

next 3 pages gonna be about why he's not wearing the lace lock?

 

[jango]

Well Lebron is a pretty big guy, and I guess the wimpy Lunarlon can't handle the pressure like the 360 full length zoom can.

 

[domosirchazzo]

I lol'd
next 3 pages gonna be about why he's not wearing the lace lock?

Lol or why his NBA socks are longer than the NBA sock they sell to us.

#PEsockGame

 

[Mr Dink]

Well Lebron is a pretty big guy, and I guess the wimpy Lunarlon can't handle the pressure like the 360 full length zoom can.

Lunarlon is basically foam and Zoom is a thin air bag. If anything, it should've been the other way around.

 

[orsrt8]

I must be the only one who doesn't care what Lebron wears. I just want the shoes because I think they look nice.

Exactly. It's a dope shoe regardless. It's dumb to "boycott" a shoe because Lebron isn't wearing them at the moment. He obviously likes the style because if he didn't they wouldn't be the 11's. I'm sure he'll be back to wearing them soon when he gets a retooled version specifically for him. Will probably took out the lunarlon so he can use his orthortics and have incapsulated zoom and a harder sole.

 

[chrisboshgoat]

I just sent Nike support a couple tweets asking them, but I don't think there gonna reply.

 

[Mr Dink]

You know what, let the guys boycott. It'll make it a lot easier for me to buy all the colorways I want.

 

[yotk13]

If lebron doesnt want to wear the xi then he should give all his pairs to me 

 

[Quincy McCall]

 

[Gordonson]

Are you dudes serious right now, asking Nike for answers and ****?

 

[yeezy83]

Quincy McCall

good find, music's lame...just wondering how hard it is to keep 'em in place in the case after you take 'em out

#strugglecase

 

[jango]

Lunarlon is basically foam and Zoom is a thin air bag. If anything, it should've been the other way around.

but Lunarlon doesn't have near as much spring in the step that the 360 zoom does. And when you're as big as LBJ and making hard cuts, he prolly just sinks into the Lunarlon without any spring-back. One thing I don't understand is that we can safely assume that LBJ has been practicing and self testing the XI's, and you would think that he would have discovered that he doesn't like playing in the shoe before the first few games. Perhaps he's just trying to build more attention to the upcoming releases?

 

[djlunchbox]

Wait some of y'all wear this shoe because you actually ball in it? Damn I'm doing it wrong i guess

 

[grup]

The FI and the Carbons are both very nice but clear bottoms will turn piss yellow. :x

 

[jinkazama]

$100 says nike has picked up LJ's personal 11's and are doing some major reworks as we speak. How cool would it be if they stuffed a zoom max bag in the 11's insole. the only sucky thing would be we'd never see a pair for retail.

 

[redrum3281]

I've decided regardless of what LeBron wears all I want so far are the graffiti's, I thought about the gamma's but nah I don't need them.

 

[xplosivejeff]

If yall have the Jordan 2012 inserts you can play in the XI with full length air max. It ain't hard for Nike to equip LeBron with it