Nike LeBron 23 — “Grand Opening” Out Now!

Went ahead and got mine. Youngin at DSG tried telling me that didn’t have them, until I pulled up the app and store inventory.

Size of this box is wild though.
I always try to look online prior to going. My online inventory only showed two locations that had them. Only location only had one pair left the other had two.
Sure could’ve waited until nike or whoever dropped them down to $150 but once I seen them in hand I had to have em.
This is my second pair these boxes are massive. When I wear my Miami Twice pair I just leave them out the box instead of putting them back up.
 
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Custom hat and socks with the shoes and shirt. Carbon fiber king, I should've but my carbon fiber breaking stick in the pic lol lace locks on and that shirt is carbon fiber lettering hard to tell, full circle bcuz thats a Miami timeline shirt super old at this point, dyed the red in the hat black and the socks blacker, those socks are from the 17 era really came full circle with this one
 
For being 1 of best days of my life, will be copped, day 1 potentially, along with the Undertaker shirt

The sight of Dana Warrior and Mrs Magataker thinking Kevin Love was LeBron with Mark is standing there in full costume and tennis shoes will never ever be lost on me even with CTE, and the likelihood of dementia or alzheimers.
 
ok i'm ready to go over my thoughts on the colorways as i like a lot of them despite not buying all the ones i liked

From This Point Forward - solid concept to colorway with the SVSM to NBA, i'm just not a fan of green unless it's TMNT
Shoe Bag - good concept to colorway with the original orange nike box but the 15s did it better
Best In Class - great concept poor colorway execution, while i love the all red and was tempted to buy bcuz of that, the big apple bite was the only part of the concept that actually made sense, he wore a whole white suit regardless of the draft being in NYC
Grand Opening - solid concept to colorway not much to say its a decent KO of the original LBJ1
Motor King - good concept to colorway, just not feeling it
Honor The King - weird concept to colorway, i honestly thought these were a statue of liberty colorway but the concept was a lot deeper
Out For Redemption - great concept to colorway with the whole jersey design being on the upper, these were damn near perfect
Honor Society - good concept to poor colorway like what were they going with for a MVP representation? looks like his first ASG shoe
Good Intentions - good concept to colorway very Miamish pique cw style
Heat Wave - great concept to colorway even using the pony hair to make flame pattern was a nifty design
Green With Envy - great concept to poor colorway with this concept they could've done some really awesome green destructive stuff but they did.....cw makes 0 sense for the concept
Dreams and Nightmares - ????? high hopes maybe a "i got whooped by TX cw" :rofl:
Miami Twice - good concept to colorway solid Lebron X throwback with a few Maimi Night vibes hidden inside but tongue ruins it
Masked Menace - great concept to colorway one of if not the best executions damn near perfect but the GS is perfect with the carbon fiber patter and the adult pattern seems a bit off
Hurt Feelings Write History - great concept to colorway while not for me at least the cw to concept makes sense unlike some of the others
Shut Up And Dribble - um concept to colorway did we need this concept like i mean i get it and it is a moment the colorway was nice and the play on the words was cool it was def a clean slate moment, it's too bad they had so many white based cws bcuz this could've been a white noise cw with this concept
Lebronto - great concept to good colorway at first i didn't like these bcuz i felt like it missed out on having Raptors colors in it but being an amber colorway and meteors with jurassic skull made the concept better in the long term great example of concept and cw coming together to better build on each other
Bubble Boy - great concept ok coloway i feel this was only halfway executed greatly with the nike check and then it fell apart just needed more lakers goodness and i hate the lakers
Stuffing Stocker - great concept to good colorway ruined by the tongue just like the GwE pair and M2x
For The Record - great concept to um colorway like here was a chance to release a PE colorway concept that we didn't get when he did break the record but the execution is good but doing these in all pink with the execution they put in would've put these over the moon
Uncharted 40k - great concept to colorway the gold hits hard and i think this one is a pretty flawless execution held back by it's limited release
TC1&T1WC - good concept to colorway they def used all the laker stuff on this one colorway since as the other laker cw def were without
Old Glory - good concept to colorway well look here they used his suit to make the colorway imagine that type of execution can be done

Bonus
Warning Label ASG - no concept other than ASG shiny like an ocean crab from some disney movie i can't remember :lol: i thought it was nice plus new lace lock :pimp: went well with the whole ASG series

CWs i bought MM and OFR.
CWs i almost bought or considered BIC, HtK, GI, HW, U40K, WL:ASG
 
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i'm curious to the theme to colorway behind this one, i originally though it was gonna be about the 3-1 finals comeback but colorway seems weird

nevermind Clev was wearing black gold jersey on the game 7 win
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yeah the colorway makes a bit more sense now
This the inspiration
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Soo we’re just missing dreams & nightmares now…

yup but atleast we know the concept

Nike LeBron 23 “Dreams & Nightmares”

The pair celebrates LeBron winning his first NBA Finals and Finals MVP with the Miami Heat in 2012

now i'm not a fan of the 9s and as we've seen how nike can be hit or miss on concept to colorway.....
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if they go with something with colors that invoke his first championship pack then we could be onto a possible best for last nike just gotta bring the heat on this last wave.....i'll see myself out |l
 

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