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In continuing to tell the story of Sonny Vaccaro<\/a>‘s impact on both the worlds of basketball and sneakers, ESPN’s “Sole Man” 30 for 30<\/strong> documentary shares a look at the hand Vaccaro played in how Kobe Bryant wound up with both adidas and the Los Angeles Lakers after Vaccaro was fired from Nike. From bringing MJ to Nike to bringing some of the games legendary players and colleges under the Swoosh umbrella, Vaccaro’s story gets increasingly interesting with each installment. Check out part 3 streaming after the jump and be sure to drop us a line in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In continuing to tell the story of Sonny Vaccaro‘s impact on both the worlds of basketball and sneakers, ESPN’s “Sole…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42489,"featured_media":440922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,1224378],"cultivate_rss":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nFind Out How Sonny Vaccaro Got Kobe Bryant to adidas | Snkrs Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Find out How Sonny Vaccaro Got Kobe Bryant to adidas on nicekicks.com, the number one source for sneaker news.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/find-sonny-vaccaro-got-kobe-bryant-adidas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Find Out How Sonny Vaccaro Got Kobe Bryant to adidas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Find out How Sonny Vaccaro Got Kobe Bryant to adidas on nicekicks.com, the number one source for sneaker news.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/find-sonny-vaccaro-got-kobe-bryant-adidas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Snkrs Day\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NiceKicks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-04-08T16:24:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-08-13T18:26:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2015\/04\/find-out-how-sonny-vaccaro-got-kobe-bryant-to-adidas.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Gregory Williams\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@snkrsday\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@snkrsday\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Gregory Williams\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"WebPage\",\"ItemPage\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/find-sonny-vaccaro-got-kobe-bryant-adidas\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/find-sonny-vaccaro-got-kobe-bryant-adidas\/\",\"name\":\"Find Out How Sonny Vaccaro Got Kobe Bryant to adidas | Snkrs Day\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/find-sonny-vaccaro-got-kobe-bryant-adidas\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/find-sonny-vaccaro-got-kobe-bryant-adidas\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2015\/04\/find-out-how-sonny-vaccaro-got-kobe-bryant-to-adidas.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-04-08T16:24:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-08-13T18:26:48+00:00\",\"description\":\"Find out How Sonny Vaccaro Got Kobe Bryant to adidas on nicekicks.com, the number one source for sneaker news.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/find-sonny-vaccaro-got-kobe-bryant-adidas\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/find-sonny-vaccaro-got-kobe-bryant-adidas\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/find-sonny-vaccaro-got-kobe-bryant-adidas\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2015\/04\/find-out-how-sonny-vaccaro-got-kobe-bryant-to-adidas.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2015\/04\/find-out-how-sonny-vaccaro-got-kobe-bryant-to-adidas.jpg\",\"width\":750,\"height\":400,\"caption\":\"Find out How Sonny Vaccaro Got Kobe Bryant to adidas\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/find-sonny-vaccaro-got-kobe-bryant-adidas\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Columns\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/columns\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Video\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/columns\/video\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":4,\"name\":\"Find Out How Sonny Vaccaro Got Kobe Bryant to adidas\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/\",\"name\":\"Snkrs Day\",\"description\":\"Sneakers News. 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