# Nike LeBron Witness 9

- Source: https://stierproducts.com/products/nike-lebron-witness-9
- Category board: https://stierproducts.com/categories/basketball-shoes
- Placement: #12 of 16 in Basketball Shoes, F tier
- Brand: Nike
- LP on this board: 209
- Last researched: 2026-10-17T06:04:15.242Z
- Method: https://stierproducts.com/methodology
- Dataset: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22062813 - every board at once, one dated snapshot per release, same licence, prices and photographs left out
- Reuse: Text, rankings, tier assignments, LP values and verdicts are free to quote and reuse with attribution to stierproducts and a link to the source URL (CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Product photographs are not covered: they belong to their respective owners and are reproduced to illustrate the product being reviewed. Do not redistribute them under this licence.

## Verdict

a budget signature that plays well above its cost, independently confirmed by a teardown lab. Second only to the 361 on pure value.

## For

- budget signature
- plays well above its cost
- teardown lab confirms performance
- Does not feel like a cheaper shoe despite its budget positioning
- RunRepeat's cut-in-half teardown backs the build

## Flagged as one to avoid

This product entered 5 of 16 runs as one buyers cross-shop but should not buy, rather than as a pick. It is published here rather than dropped.

## Evidence

Consolidated from 8 cited sources across 5 outlets

| Outlet | Said by | Stance | Link | Link status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| youtube | - | - | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54bzG9Z-3Po | fetched and confirmed |
| DHR Sports | DHR Sports | B | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHNnfdMS9JI | fetched and confirmed |
| INBOX TO GO | INBOX TO GO | B | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7dHPnhJ9BI | fetched and confirmed |
| INBOX TO GO | INBOX TO GO | B | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_yyl5fM5rg | fetched and confirmed |
| INBOX TO GO | INBOX TO GO | B | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekz1BXmH310 | fetched and confirmed |
| INBOX TO GO | INBOX TO GO | B | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ_XbvVnfa4 | fetched and confirmed |
| Anak Basket Channel | Anak Basket Channel | B | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpgAPjwG9J4 | fetched and confirmed |
| RunRepeat - Athletic shoe reviews | Dimitrije Curcic | A | https://runrepeat.com/nike-le-bron-witness-9 | fetched and confirmed |

## Nearest alternatives on this board

| Rank | Product | Tier | Page |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Way of Wade 12 | S | https://stierproducts.com/products/way-of-wade-12 |
| 7 | Adidas Believe That 1 | C | https://stierproducts.com/products/adidas-believe-that-1 |
| 8 | Nike LeBron 23 | C | https://stierproducts.com/products/nike-lebron-23 |
| 9 | New Balance TWO WXY V3 | D | https://stierproducts.com/products/new-balance-two-wxy-v3 |
| 10 | Adidas Subzone | D | https://stierproducts.com/products/adidas-subzone |
| 11 | G.T. Cut 4 | D | https://stierproducts.com/products/g-t-cut-4 |
| 13 | Nike Ja 3 | F | https://stierproducts.com/products/nike-ja-3 |
| 14 | Kobe 11 Elite Protro | F | https://stierproducts.com/products/kobe-11-elite-protro |
| 15 | Kobe 11 Protro | F | https://stierproducts.com/products/kobe-11-protro |
| 16 | Kobe 8 Protro | F | https://stierproducts.com/products/kobe-8-protro |

The full board is at https://stierproducts.com/categories/basketball-shoes.

## What this tier means

- F: Avoid. The evidence points you elsewhere.

## How to read this

- Each category is researched in four independent runs, one per lens (expert consensus, value, reliability, community pulse). Every run ranks a board of candidates that deliberately includes products buyers cross-shop but should avoid. Placements score on a ranked ladder (LP), and tiers are derived from LP, so no tier is ever assigned by hand.
- LP is this product's points on its own category ladder. It is comparable within a category and not across categories.
- Link status reports what our pre-publication link check found when it fetched the cited URL. It says nothing about the quality of the review.
- A citation with no usable link is listed rather than dropped, and is excluded from the counted total above.

## Image

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Product photographs are not covered: they belong to their respective owners and are reproduced to illustrate the product being reviewed. Do not redistribute them under this licence.