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Kalan HooksJul 22, 2025, 06:26 PM ET
WNBA prima Caitlin Clark inactive shows emotion for her alma mater.
On Tuesday, the Indiana Fever defender amazed the Iowa Hawkeyes men's and women's hoops teams with pairs of her ain player-exclusive colorway of the Nike Kobe 5 Protro shoe.
"Thanks to [Caitlin Clark] for being that large ... we consciousness truthful blessed," Iowa women's hoops caput manager Jan Jensen said.
Clark has consistently sported the Kobe Bryant signature sneaker since her assemblage days astatine Iowa. During the 2024 women's NCAA tournament, the existent Fever defender donned the "Bruce Lee" Kobe 5s successful the Hawkeyes' run, which ended with a nonaccomplishment successful the nationalist title crippled against the South Carolina Gamecocks.
Big convey you to No. 22 🤩#Hawkeyes pic.twitter.com/LZ6wChSPae
— The Iowa Hawkeyes (@TheIowaHawkeyes) July 22, 2025In a 2024 interview, Clark expressed wherefore the Bryant signature footwear is her favorite.
"I'm a Kobe person," Clark said past season. "Everybody knows that. It's the champion shoe. It's not adjacent close. ... So, obviously, conscionable to deterioration [Kobe's] footwear and evidently what Vanessa [Bryant] has done and their household has done. And continuing his legacy, not lone evidently wrong his shoe, but conscionable that full instauration and conscionable the Kobe marque is beauteous incredible. So, I consciousness precise fortunate and fortunate to not lone correspond Nike, but besides their full family."
In Indiana's play opener against the Chicago Sky, Clark wore the customized "Rookie of the Year" Kobe 5 subordinate variation sneakers, a motion to the grant she won successful the 2024 play aft averaging 19.2 points, 5.7 rebounds and 8.4 assists.
The Kobe 5 "Caitlin Clark" colorway was primitively released connected June 30.
Clark inked an eight-year, $28 cardinal woody with Nike successful April 2024, with a signature sneaker presently successful the works. She besides debuted a caller subordinate variation sneaker astatine WNBA All-Star Weekend.
Clark is presently averaging 16.5 points, 5.0 rebounds and 8.8 assists for the Fever this season.
