NBA Star’s Sneaker Blow-Out Won’t Be a Nike Ad Anytime Soon

Here’s a clip you won’t be seeing in Nike ads anytime soon: San Antonio Spurs star Manu Ginobili’s shoe spectacularly disintegrating in the middle of an NBA game

Ginobili’s mishap came while trying to guard Rodney Stuckey of the Detroit Pistons during their Wednesday night tilt. While moving left, Ginobili’s left foot tears completely through the left side of his left shoe. In more than 20 years of watching basketball, I’ve never seen a player lose his shoe quite like this:

Ginobili typically wears Nike shoes, and sleuthing by sneaker fans determined he was wearing either the Air Max Closer IV or Zoom Hyperfuse models Thursday morning. By Thursday afternoon, sneaker blog Nice Kicks reported that it was a pair of Air Max Closers Gibobili had been playing in since 2009 — which would make the blow-out more explicable than it looked Read more…

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