{"id":594897,"date":"2026-04-09T04:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/594897\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T04:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:38:12","slug":"kawhi-leonards-new-balance-kawhi-5-shoes-revealed-in-photos-ahead-of-nba-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/594897\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard&#8217;s New Balance Kawhi 5 Shoes Revealed in Photos Ahead of NBA Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Los Angeles Clippers star Kawhi Leonard&#8217;s fifth signature shoe with New Balance was <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/newbalance.newsmarket.com\/latest-news\/the-kawhi-v-marks-a-new-era-of-athlete-led-design-in-new-balance-basketball\/s\/983c4775-5a82-40e0-94cb-1d50fcb4e8c5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">revealed<\/a> on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Images of Leonard&#8217;s Kawhi 5 model were released, as the shoes featured a premium\u00a0and\u00a0soft\u00a0upper material\u00a0for lockdown and comfort,\u00a0a dual-density FuelCell midsole\u00a0and\u00a0a Y-Plate\u00a0at the forefoot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The shoes will launch in summer 2026, with the first colorway being accompanied by an apparel capsule that includes\u00a0a lightweight warm-up jacket, tapered performance\u00a0shorts\u00a0and a breathable training tee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Leonard previously debuted the shoes during the 2026 NBA All-Star festivities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The 34-year-old has been with New Balance since 2018. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Leonard is in the midst of an impressive 2025-26 campaign, earning his seventh All-Star nod. He&#8217;s averaging a career-high 28.1 points to go along with 6.3 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.9 steals per game while shooting 50.6 percent from the field and 38.9 percent from three-point territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Clippers star Kawhi Leonard&#8217;s fifth signature shoe with New Balance was revealed on Wednesday. Images of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-594897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}