Pictures of Kobe’s New Aces Sneakers Posted to Facebook

Pictures of the Kobe Bryant's new sneakers featuring the Aces are out.

The new Nike Zoom Kobe VII ‘Lower Merion Aces’ are posted on Kenlu.net, a Facebook page apparently dedicated to sneaker news.

The page is not in English and the translation is not terribly helpful:

Kobe 7 "Lower Merion" color scheme in high school, Taiwan tentatively scheduled this weekend (three-seventeenths) arrived, as to not alert on sale, information is for reference only, actual sale of tour and shops on the shelves with the arrival shops to freight companies, good luck on want to start exploration of shoe buy.” (Bing translation of post on Kenlu.net)

Sneaker News reports that no release date of the shoes with a “red upper with grey/white detailing on the heel and the signature Ace of spades logo embedded onto the heel” in the US has been set yet. A comment on the Sneaker News post said the shoes were being released in Singapore Monday.

In 2007, in response to a mania for all things throwback, Nike decided to manufacture a nostalgia stirring shoe line for one of their top pitchmen, and given that he hadn't attended college, or play for anyone but the Lakers during his pro career, they had no choice but to make the sneaks Lower Merion Aces themed. And so the Kobe Zoom II Lower Merion Aces was born. Propitiously for Nike–and as it would turn out, the Aces themselves–the gambit worked. The shoes sold like wildfire, and Nike, ever sensitive to the voice of the market, pumped out additional iterations in the intervening years.

Note: The post is moving rapidly down the Kenlu Facebook page as the site posts more Sneaker news. If you have trouble finding it, check out the Ardmore-Merion-Wynnewood Facebook page, where the story was shared.