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It was back in 1996 when Kobe Bryant had graduated from high school and he signed with adidas directly after. It was not until Summer 2003, after he broke his deal with them a year earlier and remained without a deal for the year, that Kobe Bryant finally signed with Nike. Three years later, Nike launched his first signature sneaker model in 2006 in the form of the Nike Zoom Kobe 1 and 9 years later, his eleventh signature model is now on its way.

Now that the Lakers’ shooting guard is retiring, the Kobe 11 designed by Eric Avar will likely be his last signature model. The Kobe 11 is still as lightweight as its predecessors, but this will be the first time for Nike to incorporate Flyknit with a thermoplastic polyurethane yarn into the upper of one of their basketball shoes. The rest of the model resembles the Kobe 10 to quite an extent. The heel features a combination of full-length Lunarlon foam and a Zoom Air unit, while the silhouette is also equipped with a mesh tongue that makes it breathable and a translucent outsole.

A launch event took place live on Periscope on December 14th 2015, during which @nikebasketball and Kobe himself revealed the story behind his eleventh signature model. It has even been confirmed that the retail debut of the first Kobe 11 colorway, the “Achilles Heel,” will take place at Nike’s official website and select retailers on January 9th, 2016. Despite being Kobe’s last signature sneaker, it does not mean Nike will not drop more iterations of the Kobe 1 to Kobe 10, so stay tuned to Sneaker1 for more Nike Kobe release dates.

Kobe 10 XKobe 11 XI

Kobe 10 XKobe 11 XI