'FOR THE RECORD'

LeBron has always been confronted with preposterous expectations-and it turns out they sold him short. Projected as more of a facilitator than an elite scorer, young LeBron was rarely viewed as a threat to a sacred record: the most career points in NBA history.

But on February 7, 2023, LeBron drilled a fadeaway jumper against the Oklahoma City Thunder to notch his record-breaking 38,388th point. The otherwise routine bucket may have immortalized him at the top of the all-time leaderboard, but it doesn't define him. "I don't want to be labeled as a scorer, " LeBron has said, "I'm a playmaker."

From a kid from Akron to a Forever King, the journey spans two decades of redefining greatness on the hardwood.

23 colorways. 23 stories. Only one crown.

The LeBron XXIII ‘For The Record’ takes cues from the City of Champions with a purple and gold hues filtered through the shoe. An oil-slick application is added to the midfoot crown to provide a premium look from any angle. A golden crown motif hovers over the record breaking number LeBron set when taking the mantle as all-time leading scorer. To cap it off, the signature of the King from the night he set the record caps off a shoe for the history books.