{"id":156989,"date":"2025-09-14T21:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T21:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/156989\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T21:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T21:27:07","slug":"patriotic-former-lebron-james-kobe-bryant-sneaker-returning-to-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/156989\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriotic Former LeBron James, Kobe Bryant Sneaker Returning to Market"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two superstar Los Angeles Lakers champions, 18-time All-Star shooting guard Kobe Bryant and 21-time All-Star combo forward LeBron James, are slated to have some of their classic, game-worn Adidas footwear get reintroduced to the market next summer, per WWD.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bryant initially wore the Adidas Crazy 2 USA sneakers, decked out in red-white-and-blue coloring, in L.A.’s 2001-02 season opener, paying tribute to the victims of the airplane crashes on September 11, 2001, which at that point had happened just a few months before.<\/p>\n

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James, at the time a high school junior, also wore the limited-release shoes during a high school clash with another future Hall of Famer and Lakers forward, Carmelo Anthony, in 2002. The sneaker was re-dubbed as the Crazy 2. It was the final shoe he released for Adidas before jumping ship to Nike. James’ footwear has exclusively been Nike throughout his soon-to-be-23-year NBA career.<\/p>\n

Per WWD.com, the Adidas Crazy 2 USA will be back on the block in June 2026. The sneaker is expected to fetch $160 on Adidas’ website and third-party retailers.<\/p>\n

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This story will be updated…<\/p>\n

For more news and notes on the Los Angeles Lakers, visit Los Angeles Lakers on SI<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two superstar Los Angeles Lakers champions, 18-time All-Star shooting guard Kobe Bryant and 21-time All-Star combo forward LeBron…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-156989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}