Adidas KB8 or ‘Crazy 8’ (which is what I’ve always called them). This isn’t the first pair of Kobe’s I ever got, but it’s the only pair of Adidas Kobe’s I ever wore... represented in the #824Pack card numbers 2 & 3 and on a couple of insert cards.
I always loved the marketing campaign behind this shoe - the ‘feet you wear’ and that lil logo of the foot-faced guy…I always thought they were a cool shoe, but I had a hard time getting behind Kobe as a player as he was continually torching my Nor Cal squad(s).
These eluded me for years, up until about 2012, when I found a pair of Samples at the Alemany Flea Market in San Francisco. If you’ve ever been there - it was the older Latina lady who always posts at the corner with a van, a blue tarp, and a ton of shoes...she gave them to me for $20 and I wore them a handful of times - slightly tight on me. They were like a deep chocolate - almost black - pair of crazy 8’s with Ostrich leather accents and Gum-segmented bottoms. I had never seen them before and definitely never saw them after...I really wish I kept them, but that’s how things go when you’re in it for the love (and not the money).
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