Vanessa Bryant Gifts UConn Hoops Team Unreleased ‘Italian Camo’ Nike Kobe 6s

Vanessa Bryant stunned the UConn males’s basketball workforce with some Kobe kicks forward of its Candy 16 matchup with SDSU … gifting the unreleased “Italian Camo” Protros to the squad — and the gamers cherished them!!

The Huskies received the wonderful presents on Wednesday, some 24 hours earlier than they tackle the No. 5 Aztecs in Boston as a part of the NCAA match’s subsequent spherical.

In video posted by the workforce, you possibly can see the Large East champs had no thought they have been going to get the presents from Vanessa … and the gamers went nuts after they formally received to unwrap the Nike sneakers — which will not be obtainable to the general public ’til April.

“I just wanna say thank you to Vanessa Bryant and the Bryant family. We appreciate you,” senior guard Hassan Diarra mentioned after getting his pair. “We’re gonna show out in the NCAA tournament!”

The footwear have been dubbed the “Italian Camos” … they usually have been created to pay tribute to Kobe Bryant’s Italian background.

This, after all, will not be the primary time UConn’s gotten some customized Bryant footwear … throughout final 12 months’s tourney, the workforce — which is part of the Nike Mamba Program — was gifted customized Huskies Kobe 8 Protros.

Keep in mind, Kobe all the time had a mushy spot for UConn … he was famously a giant fan of the college’s males’s and ladies’s basketball groups when he was alive — as was his daughter, Gianna, who went to a number of video games with Dad throughout her life.