Steph Curry receives Kobe Bryant jacket worth $7,000 as GIFT from Drake; see pictures

Canian rapping sensation and Toronto Raptors ambassor, Drake was seen in a custom-me Kobe Bryant Lakers jacket at legend's last All-Star game. 'Farewell Mamba' jacket me its first appearance at 2016 Kobe Bryant all-star game in Toronto. Designer Jeff Hamilton - w an icon of lear design - went on Heavy Live With Scoop B Show to recall his many meetings with rapper while y designed jacket in tribute to Mamba. 

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Drake gifted iconic Kobe Bryant Lakers jacket to Steph Curry

“It was amazing, Drake being such a great artist and also being an icon of our times and also being able to commission me that jacket,” says Jeff Hamilton of experience of collaborating with rap legend. "He h a lot of input with that jacket, on idea of what he wanted. He h a clear idea of how to do it" he says. However, Drake's firm ideas of what he wanted jacket to look like also me it a huge logistical challenge, mitted Hamilton. 

" jacket h to have Nike logos, it h to have NBA logos and I wasn’t an NBA licensee at time so I h to go through NBA and all red tape to make sure it was done, and jacket came out really special" recalled Jeff Hamilton. iconic jacket came in at around $7000-8000, of which Hamilton revealed he took just a small portion, foregoing rest in exchange for a shoutout on superstar's Instagram post. 

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This turned out to be a great strategy by designer, who mentioned that "I was growing with followers on my Instagram and that weekend, my Instagram probably jumped to like 50,000 followers and everybody up to this day said, "That’s guy who did Drake jacket!" Long back, in 2016, Drake revealed that he h in fact, gifted jacket to Golden State Warriors Guard, Steph Curry inste of giving it to Kobe Bryant. 

“ interesting part about that jacket is that he did t give that jacket to Kobe,” Hamilton said on  Heavy Live With Scoop B Show. “He gave it to Steph Curry. Steph Curry owns that jacket! I would assume that he would’ve given it to Kobe, right? But he gave it to Steph Curry! I think he wore it a couple of times  but I saw interview one time when he gave jacket to Steph Curry.”

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Kobe Bryant death

Kobe Bryant passed away in a helicopter crash on January 26 this year.  Los Angeles Lakers legend was 41. He is survived by his wife, Vanessa Bryant, and his three daughters. His second daughter, Gianna was among nine people who lost ir lives in helicopter crash with him. 

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