• The Root, Thursday, June 3, 2021 6:25 PM

Kobe Bryant’s widow, Vanessa Bryant, is butting heads with Nike over the premature leak of a sneakers design meant to honor her husband. “As Vanessa explains it, she helped conceptualize the Mambacita sneakers for Nike,” per The Root. “But with Kobe’s estate recently severing its long-standing relationship with the athletic shoe and apparel juggernaut, the expectation was that this colorway of the Kobe 6 Protro would never see the light of day. However, greed had other plans.”

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