NBA Sneaker King Power Rankings: Kawhi Leonard shows off fresh New Balance colorways, LeBron James makes a run - CBSSports.com
NBA Sneaker King Power Rankings: Kawhi Leonard shows off recent New Balance colorways, LeBron James makes a run
This NBA season mighty never feel like your normal run for obvious reasons, but things are starting to go down that have made it feel a little more familiar. The Clippers are blowing leads, Stephen Curry is dropping 60-plus points and LeBron James corpses (even in Year 18) remarkably good at basketball. Another unusual feeling is the consistency in which hoopers have been showing off their shoe game so far this season. It feels like no one is wasting time for later in the season or primetime games to break out the good stuff.
Believe the hype and keep scrolling to check out this week's best on-court kicks.
10. Taurean Prince
Taurean Prince has been showing love to multiple brands this season, counting Jordan, New Balance and now Anta. Prince worn out a super clean colorway of Gordon Hayward's signature sneaker - the Anta GH2. Some of you worthy be surprised Hayward has a signature shoe, and that's fair, but you can't hate on the productions itself. Shutout to Prince for showing off the versatility this season.
Carsen Edwards is doings something only a handful of players have ever done before: hooping in the Adidas Yeezy QNTM basketball sneaker. The kicks are Kanye West's effort to get his Yeezy line to undiluted out as a mainstream basketball product. There have been mixed reviews on how the shoe does on the court, but Edwards has been wearing them much of this season, so they certainly do the trick for him. The kicks are dope no doubt.
Damian Lillard is already on his seventh signature shoe in his line with Adidas! That's magnificent remarkable and it doesn't seem like anything is touching to slow it down, especially the way Lillard leftovers to thrive on the court. So far this season, he's been shaking things up and breaking out different silhouettes from his line. Below you'll see him in the Dame 5 'Chinese New Year' and in a Dame 7 player unusual colorway.
The New Balance KAWHI seems to get better with every new colorway that Kawhi Leonard breaks out. If you've viewed closely you'll notice that Leonard has slowly contract more open to flashier colorways over the ages with his New Balance kicks. Keep scrolling to check out two subtle, but absolutely fire, colorways of the KAWHI.
Cameron Payne has carved himself a magnificent nice role for the Phoenix Suns, who are executive some serious noise to start the season in the Western Conference. And once the Suns are also loaded with Sneaker King contenders, it's been Payne who has recognized out this year. He makes frequent use of Giannis Antetokounmpo's debut signature shoe - the Nike Zoom Freak 1 - which is one of the better debut sneakers from any line in a long time. Check out the colorways that helped Payne make this week's cut below.
This shouldn't be news to anyone at this present, but Russell Westbrook knows style, he knows worn and he knows good sneakers. Say what you want near his signature line with Jordan Brand, but you always have to give credit for the immaculate colorways they construct with every silhouette. Here he is showing off two colorways of the Jordan Why Not Zer0.4.
We've documented this time and again: Tobias Harris is with a very select group of NBA players that on any given night can break out something from the Nike Kobe Bryant line that you've never seen before. "This is all I rock," he told CBS Sports last year when discussing where he ranks himself with the league's biggest Nike Kobe collectors. It was true then and it leftovers true now, and the proof is in the portray below with two pristine colorways.
As far as young players with keen futures go, Jayson Tatum is near the top of the list. He's 23 ages old, already an All-Star and is on a Jordan Brand deal. How many 23-year-old hoopers wish they could check some of those boxes? As far as the footwear on the law courtyard goes, Tatum has been hopping between the Jordan 34 and the newly-released Jordan 35 this season. He was a huge fan of the Jordan 34 so it seems probable he'll continue to fluctuate between the two models this season, which using even more fire colorways for us to comb through.
2. LeBron James
LeBron James might've been a small slow out of the gates with the kicks this season when measured in contradiction of his own crazy standards, but all of that is out of the window this week. The King went crazy with the colorways of his Nike LeBron 18 and even ancient out the Nike LeBron Ambassador 13 'Yeezy' for the game in contradiction of the Grizzlies. Very impressive run.
1. P.J. Tucker
If anyone ever consumes help finding some long, lost ancient artifact they must call P.J. Tucker because he and his team sure know how to dig up some sneakers that haven't been seen in decades. This week, the NBA's reigning Sneaker King ancient out a pair of Michael Finley Jordan 14 player odd kicks that should be in a Jordan Brand museum somewhere. That was his biggest flex of the week, but it's not like he stationary showing off his sneaker heat just there. Check out the rest of his highlights below.
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