Curry Debuts LeBron X

Stephen Curry showed up for the Golden State Warriors’ game against the Los Angeles Lakers on April 10 wearing a Nike LeBron X iD instead of his usual Under Armour pair, and the shoe choice got almost as much attention as the matchup itself. LeBron James saw it and called it “super cool,” turning a pregame sneaker spot into a public nod from one superstar to another. That stood out because Curry has been tied to Under Armour for more than a decade, and Under Armour built an entire Curry Brand around him in 2023 after already giving him 11 signature models. Before that partnership, Curry actually wore Nike early in his National Basketball Association career, including models like the Nike Hyperdunk 2010 and Nike Hyperfuse 2012. The LeBron X came from a very specific LeBron era: Nike introduced the model in 2012, when James was with the Miami Heat, and early pairs retailed from $180 for the base version to $270 for the Nike Plus version with embedded tech. By early 2013, Nike was still rolling out fresh LeBron X colorways, including the “Home” pair that Sneaker News listed for a February 9, 2013 release. So when Curry pulled out a LeBron X in 2026, he was not just borrowing another player’s shoe. He was reaching back to a model that first hit shelves about 13 years earlier, the sneaker equivalent of wearing a vintage rival jersey to warmups. The game added another layer because Warriors-Lakers has been the league’s clearest late-career Curry-versus-LeBron stage, even when injuries or rest turn the actual box score into something smaller than the names on the marquee. That is why one pair of shoes traveled so fast. A Warriors star wore a 2012 LeBron model against the Lakers in 2026, and LeBron answered like a fan who recognized exactly what he was looking at.