{"id":760204,"date":"2026-06-13T18:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T18:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/760204\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T18:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T18:45:15","slug":"nike-relive-kobes-draft-day-on-the-dunk-low-protro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/760204\/","title":{"rendered":"Nike Relive Kobe&#8217;s &#8216;Draft Day&#8217; On the Dunk Low Protro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine if Kobe Bryant had never been traded. Sorry, Hornets fans, for bringing up painful memories&#8230; but according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNDtjuWxzBu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">@sneakerfiles<\/a>, Nike are once again revisiting that momentous night with a Draft Day-inspired Kobe. Over the years, Nike has celebrated the moment Kobe\u2019s dream of being in the NBA was realised, with various Charlotte Hornets colourways. But unlike previous iterations, the latest will be a silhouette Kobe never wore on court \u2013 a Nike Dunk Low.<\/p>\n<p>Recent years have seen Nike expand the Kobe line, namely through a slew of co-branded Air Force 1s \u2013 and Kobe\u2019s love of the AF-1 was well-documented, making for a natural progression of his line. The news of a Kobe x Nike Dunk comes with more of a focus on his story than sneaker history, and with this drop Nike are giving us something we\u2019ve never seen before: a Dunk Protro. &#8216;Protro&#8217; is a term Kobe coined when first discussing the possibility of bringing back some of his older models. It means \u2018Performance Retro\u2019, and the idea is to reconstruct the shoe with modern upgrades to improve the performance elements, but maintain its DNA. The Kobe x Nike Dunk Low Protro will be the first of its kind.<\/p>\n<p>No official specs have been revealed at this time, but the shoe will likely feature a drop-in ReactX insole \u2013 an element some Kobe AF-1s have featured, and also present in several Nike Kobe signature silhouettes. The colourway of the Kobe x Dunk Protro celebrates his draft night when the Charlotte Hornets selected Kobe as 13th overall before trading him to the Los Angeles Lakers. It is expected to feature a palette of \u2018Fierce Purple\/Blue Lagoon\u2019 and \u2018Sail\u2019, which is consistent with the tones sneakerheads have come to expect from the \u2018Draft Day\u2019 colourway. There is also an unknown special detail expected to be present in the design. Could it be the mamba sheath on the heel like the Kobe Air Force 1s?<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagine if Kobe Bryant had never been traded. Sorry, Hornets fans, for bringing up painful memories&#8230; but according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,12404,684,473,3878,29507,343,685,93342,2772,1536,9717,6,3121,9768,88752,27591],"class_list":["post-760204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-charlotte-hornets","tag-basketball","tag-buy","tag-charlotte","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-charlottehornets","tag-draft-day","tag-dunk","tag-hornets","tag-im0586-500","tag-kobe","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-low","tag-nba","tag-nike","tag-price","tag-protro","tag-release-date"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116744285322136460","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}