20 Years After Kobe Scored 81, Nike Is Bringing Back His Legendary Sneakers

The thing with sneakers—all sneakers, really, but hoop shoes especially—is that it’s as much about the story as the shoe. A new signature silhouette or limited colorway can hit all the right aesthetic notes, but if the player they’re named after never manages to create a signature moment in them, they could easily get lost to the annals of sneaker history. There are a lot of shoes bearing Kobe Bryant’s name and no shortage of great stories attached to them—but few are greater…