Los Angeles is one of the major American sports cities. There were six titles won by five teams (Rams, Dodgers, Lakers, Lafc, Galaxy) this decade alone. And yet, if you drive in town and look at the murals adorning all the service stations and the shopping centers, you might think that it was a city of a team that had a huge affection for a basketball player. This team is the dodgers and this player is Kobe Bryant.
I’m not from Los Angeles, but it’s the house for me now, and I love it very much. The easiest way for me to explain why you bring you to a dodgers game. I have lived in some different cities over the years, some with large sporting cultures, but believe me when I say that I have never seen a place that loves a team as the Dodgers likes. Go to the stadium – The city of the baseball Vatican, even if Soldier Field is technically the house of the Pope these days – and see by yourself. The crowds arise for morning mornings in summer as Knicks fans are currently for the conference final.
Each summer, the Dodgers honor the late Bryant with Kobe Night, the only sports figure in Los Angeles who competes with the affection of the city for them, and every summer, it is one of the biggest tickets in a city full of big tickets. The Mamba was a pillar of the Dodgers matches during his stay in the city – these days, you can throw a rock in this city and you will hit someone wearing a T -shirt with a photo of Kobe in Rangalia Dodgers complete on it. Forget Magic and Shaq and Gretzky and Beckham and Kareem and LeBron. There are Kobe and there are dodgers. In a city in Champions, everyone is fighting for second place.
Nike has draped a lot of kicks in Dodger Blue over the years, local favorites Cortezes to a pair of LeBron 7 in 2021. But they never moved a pair of Kobes in the colors of his favorite baseball team until this week. In collaboration with the Bryant family, the Swoosh finally abandons a pair of Kobes – the 6, its most popular silhouette – in Dodger Blue for $ 180. With white accents, shoes also have red seams on the tongue imitating that of baseball seams. Take a look at the outer heel and you will find Kobe number 8 in the same style as all Dodgers players relate to their uniforms. The summer next to sneakers is a full range of baseball equipment, shot gloves to a recipe game of $ 800 in Blue Dodger and sporting the Kobe sheath logo (if you really want to look into it, the local icons born X raised make their new World Series collection Dodgers the same day).
It’s a good time for these shoes. The is both prosperous and treating her injuries. On the one hand, Kendrick put the city on his back last year and celebrated with tens of thousands of fans at the Sofi stadium last week. The Dodgers and the Galaxy both won titles at the end of last year. Luka is on the Lakers. The west coast is increasing, of course, but 2025 took a difficult start when the Los Angeles fires ravaged the city, leaving thousands of Angelenos without their homes and without any idea of what is coming.
We always rebuild and we are going to go well, but the road to get there is long. It is silly to say that a pair of sneakers can remind you of it, but there are few things that bring together the city like Kobe and the Dodgers. We stay to fill this stadium, and there is still no better place to be by a hot summer night in Los Angeles than the Ravine Chavez.
The Nike Kobe 6 ‘Dodgers’ collection is available today via SNKRS.
