As LeBron spent so much time in the nike shoes post season that year, it was only fitting that his on-feet offerings morphed at that juncture to provide a silhouette better fitted for the post-season push. Thus was born the Nike Elite Basketball line, a trio of models that included the reinforced Nike LeBron 9 Elite. That same shoe would be doubled up on for LeBron James first ever Championship Pack set of sneakers.

Our 11 Days of Nike LeBron series has brought us all the way here, to the 2012/13 entry the Nike LeBron X . The shoe made its debut on the grandest of stages-the 2012 post-season was no normal one for LeBron as he headed out to London to represent for Team USA in the 2012 Summer Olympics. The eventual gold medal game that the world nike air max had anticipated saw him bring out the Nike LeBron X at last, an event that coincided with Nike s official unveil of the shoe in that USA flavored, gold tinted colorway.

Over the past 11 days Sneaker News has treated you to 11 Days of nike roshe Nike LeBron , a sneaker career retrospective of sorts culminating on this, the eleventh day. 11/11 of course brings us to the Nike LeBron XI , that sneaker that so recently arrived at retail. As the current generation of LeBron shoes is a story that s still being told, so there isn t nearly as much retrospective and reminiscence to be had.

The shoe s overall shape was one confirmed by semi-official sources a bit earlier than normal thanks to the advent of social media: one of the first good looks at nike huarache the shoe came from the Instagram of Mav Carter, a close associate and manager of sorts to LeBron. It was then that we first ogled the Hyperposite built frame that seemed more armored up than any previous LeBron delivery (Keep in mind that the week prior had given us a speculative look at a black-out pair on feet for Bron during a practice session).

Then again, previous Elite releases seemed to be a mainstay at Nike outlets, so perhaps the sales numbers won t justify another go-round (We ve seen that Nike s not afraid to pull the plug on certain ideas give that Nike Basketball seems non-existent at this point). And will there be another championship shoe in the event that King James and the Heat can clinch it again with a rare three-peat performance? We ll have to wait and see on that one. Take a look at some past and present LeBron 11 releases below and tell us where you anticipate this sneaker ending up in terms of LeBron s lengthy nike air force 1 lineage with the Swoosh.

Where the sneaker did take strides was in its overall number of releases. Between the high and the low versions the Nike Zoom LeBron III had around sixteen colorways-that ballooned number finally suggesting that Nike believed sneaker acolytes were ready to support LeBron s line en masse. Amongst those were plenty of special editions: Nike LeBron III  All Star was on feet for James as he grabbed his first MVP award in that game, the  Kid colorway was pulled from the LeBrons commercials, and that brown/gold made sure he had appropriate birthday footwear.