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She then goes on to explain that the sneakers included features such as wings and butterflies to honor Gianna and all proceeds were intended to go to the Mamba and Mambacita Sports Foundation. She also revealed that neither she nor her daughters have received any of the shoes.

Per TMZ, adding fuel to the flames is Instagram user @brandon1an, who posted professional photos of the Mambacita sneakers weeks ago and insists that yes, Nike is behind the leak.

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“The pictures I posted are official product pictures from a Nike authorized retailer,” he wrote on Instagram. “Unfortunately for [Vanessa Bryant], Nike clearly sent pairs to this retailer (as well as others) with the intent of selling pairs. Please don’t direct your hate towards me—I’m basically just the news guy. Nike is the one handling Kobe’s death in a very insensitive and poor manner.”

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That’s one way to describe it.

On Twitter, fans of the Lakers legend are standing behind Vanessa and joining her in calling out Nike for being so incredibly callous.

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The amount of pain and grief that Vanessa has endured over the past year and change, coupled with the global pandemic, must be unfathomable. So to find out that something that she created as a conduit for that pain has been distributed without her authorization is some truly foul shit.

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Nike has yet to release a statement addressing the matter, but the entire world is all ears. They absolutely have some explaining to do.