Nike Kobe 4 Protro Girl Dad

Designed by Eric Avar and released on 7 June 2024 as part of Nike's Zoom Kobe 4 line. This release has a suede upper in Bicoastal/Black/Metallic Silver. The Kobe line made the low cut basketball shoe respectable at a time when the sport still equated ankle height with safety, and the fourth model is the one most associated with that shift. A Protro build returns an older design with updated performance parts rather than reissuing it exactly, which is a different proposition from a straight retro: you are buying the silhouette you remember with components meant to hold up in a current game. Girl Dad is the name attached to this colourway, and it is one of the few sneaker nicknames that circulates entirely on sentiment rather than on colour blocking or release history.