The approximately two-decade association late basketball actor Kobe Bryant and Nike has ended.

Bryant was “a significant share of Nike’s deep joining to consumers,” Nike said in a declaration.

“Though our votive relationship consumes over, he leftovers a intensely treasured associate of the Nike domestic,” the business added.

Bryant, lengthways with eight other persons, counting his 13-year-old daughter, died last year in a airplane bang in California. He was 41 years old.

Nike signed Bryant in 2003, which ran to unique of the most fruitful backings in history. He was one of a best collection of NBA companies who employed with the make that year, counting LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony. That helped the shoe business solidify its location in the basketball biosphere for the next couple decades following Michael Jordan’s 2003 retirement.

As Bryant’s achievement on the law court grew, so too fixed his Nike partnership. The brand shaped manifold lines of Kobe shoes and gear.

Shortly afterward Bryant’s demise, Nike (NKE) quickly sold out of his sartorial and sneakers. It also released a touching commercial celebrating the NBA great.

But Bryant’s land had “grown unfulfilled with Nike warning the availability of Kobe crops during his superannuation” and after his demise, ESPN reported Monday. They added that here was also “frustration with the lack of obtainability of Kobe footwear in kids’ scope.”