I'm not DeMar DeRozan. Nike reps quietly told team equipment managers to prepare their Kobe guys for an end. Stars with major shoe deals like LeBron James , who has given molds of his feet to Nike so custom shoes feel broken in on first wear, break out a new pair each game. Some players will wear them for a couple of games. Crowder says his two-year supply was pairs, as he usually goes through about 50 in a year. Davis, on the other hand, uses fewer, as he says he will use around pairs of his relatively shallow Kobe supply this season.
Some players without a similarly deep supply have already been forced to switch. Several equipment managers say players have switched this season to the plentiful Nike Kyrie Irving Low model, which has design similarities to the Kobe model. Others are using Nike's new more generic line, the GT. When discussing this situation with ESPN, players repeatedly expressed hope that Nike and the Bryant estate can come to a new agreement, a talking point that's been pervasive among sneakerheads this fall.
But even if that comes to pass, it would be a long time before Kobes are available again -- to players or anyone else. Product lines typically take Nike months to produce, sources say, and that was before the pandemic disrupted global supply chains.
Either way, as this season rolls on and the supplies of the remaining Kobes begin to dwindle with no replacements, the demand for the late Hall of Famer's beloved shoe design will only increase. In a time when some players are dabbling in cryptocurrency investments , there might be a new exchange developing as more players get desperate. Guys are asking me [for them], but I can't go through them like I did," DeRozan says.
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No other player has more than The next five — Dame, Harden, Klay, J. They say he looks good. Marc J. Especially the second time around. The first time, I accepted it. Championship game, five-straight finals, stuff happens. The second time was just so unexpected. It was a week before the season.
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