For a big a part of her 15-year profession, Phoenix Mercury guard Diana Taurasi has often worn her personal Participant Unique colorways of LeBron James’ signature sneakers. That started in 2008, when James lobbed Taurasi Mercury-inspired flavors of the Zoom LeBron 6. She’s been a part of Workforce LeBron ever since and can reportedly have a task subsequent to James within the Area Jam sequel, so it was solely proper that she made her anticipated 2019 season debut in one other eye-catching pair courtesy of the king.
For tonight’s sport towards the Connecticut Solar, her first since again surgical procedure earlier this 12 months, Taurasi took the courtroom in a purple-based Nike LeBron 16 PE, with white leopard fake fur panels that liken the sneakers to James’ “King” colorways. It isn’t her solely LeBron 16 PE — she’s been noticed in one other colorway on the bench throughout earlier video games, so we’ll probably see loads of warmth on her toes this season.
For now, it seems to be like this pair will stay unique to Taurasi and will not launch to most of the people. We’ll inform you if that modifications.
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