Vanessa Bryant Disappointed in Nike For Leaked ‘Mambacita’ Kicks Honoring Daughter Gianna

Kobe Bryant’s widow, Vanessa, isn’t a cheerful camper today! Earlier this 12 months, the widow didn’t renew the contract with Nike to increase his longstanding cope with the corporate. Now, she is livid as there was a public leak of the Mambacita sneakers she designed that honors her and Kobe’s late daughter, Gianna, who died in a helicopter crash along with her father early final 12 months.

“This can be a shoe I labored on in honor of my daughter, Gianna. It was going to be referred to as the MAMBACITA shoe as an unique black and white colorway on her daddy’s sneakers. The MAMBACITA sneakers are NOT authorised on the market. I needed it to be bought to honor my daughter with ALL of the proceeds benefitting our @mambamambacitasports basis, however I didn’t re-sign the Nike contract and determined to not promote these sneakers. (The MAMBACITA sneakers weren’t authorised to be made within the first place.) Nike has NOT despatched any of those pairs to me and my ladies. I have no idea how another person has their palms on sneakers I designed in honor of my daughter, Gigi and we don’t. I hope these sneakers didn’t get bought.”

“Within the 2nd photograph, it seems somebody already has Gigi’s MAMBACITA shoe of their possession. If somebody can share how they’ve these sneakers of their possession, that will be nice as a result of my daughters and I don’t have any of Gigi’s MAMBACITA sneakers.”

Bryant performed his complete 20-year NBA profession with the Los Angeles Lakers. He was a five-time NBA champion, a two-time Finals MVP, and the league’s most useful participant in 2008. Throughout his profession, Bryant made the All-Star workforce 18 instances and was the youngest participant to ever attain 30,000 factors. Bryant retired from the NBA in 2016, scoring an NBA-season-high 60 factors in his closing sport.

The 41-year-old basketball legend died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, Calif., alongside along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and 7 different individuals on Jan. 26, 2023.