Kobe Bryant Planned To Leave Nike & Build His Own Shoe Company?

Shervin Pishevar’s team has even created a design already for the Mamba shoe company that Kobe Bryant planned to launch. The first shoe design even featured a tracker at the back of the shoe which is connected to a Mamba fitness app. It is one of the plans halted by Bryant’s sudden death.

I met with Kobe Bryant in late December 2019. Kobe wasn’t happy with Nike and was going to leave it in 2020. Kobe was going to start Mamba, a shoe company owned by players. He passed away weeks later. What he was about to do in business was going to eclipse his sports career.

— Shervin Pishevar (@shervin) December 29, 2020