Vanessa Bryant has given Nike the blessing to release Kobe products again. The below three Kobe 5 Protro colorways have been scheduled for August 23 (Big Stage), August 24 (Lakers) and August 29 (EYBL).
I’m excited to see these on the calendar but the issue here is going to be production. I doubt Nike spent the past 6 months making more of these. The Big Stage I recall I announced for release in January and then it was obviously delayed with Kobe’s tragic passing.
Nike Basketball releases, when compared to a Jordan drop, are very limited. Its because they normally just don’t sell as well, basketball never has. When a store gets 200-300 pairs of an AJ5 or AJ14, they will get 24-36 pairs of a Kobe drop like this or a Lebron 7.
If Nike produced a normal run of inventory for these Kobe’s and did not make more over the past few months than these releases are going to be an absolute shit show, raffled everywhere and very difficult to get.
I was honestly hoping we wouldnt see another Kobe drop this year so that Nike spent time producing more. I will know more about stock later this month so far now these are my expectations.
