14 HOURS AGO Lakers: LeBron James Rookie Game Sneakers Offered as Stock Investment
In LeBron James rookie year, he averaged a robust 21 points, 5.5 rebounds, and 5.9 assists. At the time people knew he was special, but nobody would have predicted he would have this sort of career almost two decades later. In his 19th season, the soon to be 37-year-old James is arguably still a top-five talent.
Soon after the King signed a $90 million contract deal with Nike before he played a single NBA game, Nike went to work on his first signature shoe that Las Vegas Raiders Jerseys eventually became the famous Nike Air Zoom Generation—or LeBron 1. Aaron Cooper, one of the designers of this shoe, said “LeBron put them on [for the first time], jumped up about four to five times, stopped and said, ‘These are the most comfortable shoes I’ve ever worn.’”
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