{"id":607077,"date":"2026-04-14T21:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/607077\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T21:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:49:08","slug":"nike-and-the-kobe-line-dominated-the-nbas-most-worn-sneakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/607077\/","title":{"rendered":"Nike and the Kobe Line Dominated the NBA’s Most-Worn Sneakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNike<\/a> has increased its dominance in the NBA<\/a>, increasing from nine of the top 10 sneakers in the 2024-2025 regular season to take all 10 in the one that just concluded.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe most worn sneakers in the 2025-2026 season were tabulated by Kixstats on a per-minute basis, and each of the top 10 came from either Nike<\/a> or Jordan Brand<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tKobe Bryant<\/a>\u2018s line was also dominant with four appearances in the top 10, including the Kobe 6 Protro<\/a> in the number-one spot with 71,312 minutes of wear and a commanding lead of nearly 45,000 minutes compared to the next closest entry. Coming in at number two was the Nike Kobe 5 Protro<\/a>, with the Nike Kobe 4 Protro<\/a> and Kobe 8 Protro<\/a> appearing at number four and number 10, respectively.<\/p>\n

\n\tSabrina Ionescu\u2019s signature line of unisex basketball sneakers continues to do well in the men\u2019s league, as the Sabrina 3 took the third spot. Her fourth sneaker was just unveiled last week and will release in July.<\/p>\n

\n\tThree other signature models appeared in the top 10 with Kevin Durant\u2019s KD 18 at number five, Ja Morant\u2019s Ja 3 at number seven and Devin Booker\u2019s Book 1 at number eight. The remaining spots were then taken by the GT Cut 3 at number six and the Air Jordan 40 at number nine.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor the \u201924-\u201925 NBA<\/a> season, Donovan Mitchell\u2019s Adidas D.O.N. Issue 6 was the only non-Nike sneaker to make the cut at number 10. Anthony Edwards and James Harden\u2019s own shoes from Adidas have been widely praised over the past few years but haven\u2019t helped eat into Nike\u2019s dominance in sponsoring NBA players.<\/p>\n

\n\tStockX has found Nike just as dominant among consumers, as its 20 best-selling basketball sneakers<\/a> in 2025 were made up entirely of Nike or Converse models, with Shai Gilgeous-Alexander\u2019s Converse Shai 001 being the lone entry outside of Nike proper. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nike has increased its dominance in the NBA, increasing from nine of the top 10 sneakers in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,133096,13800,590,54961,85],"class_list":["post-607077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jordan-brand","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-nba","tag-nike","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607077","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=607077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}