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The Black Mamba Pack Honors Everything Kobe

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We knew Nike wouldn’t let Kobe retire without a bang. I’ll just let Swoosh tell you about the Black Mamba Pack:

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The partnership between Kobe Bryant and designer Eric Avar has re-established the rules of basketball footwear. Both Bryant and Avar obsess performance and over time they’ve experimented with and employed Flywire and Flyknit, gone from low to high-cut and taken strides to revolutionize traction. Each of Bryant’s shoes — 11 signature shoes and two that have been closely tied to him (the Nike Huarache 2K4 and the original Hyperdunk from 2008) — has made an immediate impact on the court while influencing global sneaker culture.

The Black Mamba Pack celebrates this legacy. The collection slowly fades from white to black with each shoe, an appropriate metaphor leading into Bryant’s final game on April 13.

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Along Bryant’s journey, he’s taken inspiration from around the world. 13 cities are represented with GPS coordinate markings in The Black Mamba Pack boxes. Athletes and fans of Bryant are encouraged to track his inspirational journey to find out the inside story and making of a HeroVillain.

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The Huarache 2K4, Bryant’s first Nike shoe, featured in white to kickoff The Black Mamba Pack.

The Black Mamba Pack is available beginning March 22, starting with the Nike Huarache 2K4 in white. Each of the 13 shoes will be available globally, in limited quantities, at select retail locations and via Nike SNKRS leading into Bryant’s final game on April 13, when he’ll wear his final shoe: the KOBE 11 in black/gold.

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Source: Nike / SNKRS App
13 comments
  1. I like the 1’s and 6’s the most out of the pack. IMO the collection overall is a little bland. Though I like neutral color schemes like this, it may be a little too bland for some. Nightwing if you copped the 1’s I’d love a performance review on ’em(just a suggestion)

  2. Wow less than a month left,

    Who are the lakers up against in their final game?

    Kobe Bryant one of the best competitors of the game!

  3. You can tell that Nike wrote this bull, “Each of Bryant’s shoes — 11 signature shoes and two that have been closely tied to him (the Nike Huarache 2K4 and the original Hyperdunk from 2008) — has made an immediate impact on the court while influencing global sneaker culture.”

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! It is so funny how Nike celebrates themselves…

  4. 3’s 9’s

    Oh my Kobe. I mean the other’s are meh, but I might just fire all the bullets in the chamber until I know I got one pair.

  5. I would have wanted the better color ways to be on the older models, like the 4, 5, 6 and 7s specifically, b/c those are the best looking Kobes imo, but all the good color ways are on the newer models

  6. Has anyone heard which retailers are getting these? Guessing they’re super limited like the prelude pack ones.

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