LeBron James took to Twitter after Duke's match against North Carolina saw Zion Williamson blowout his Nike Paul George 2.5 shoe. Unfortunately, it looks like Zion may have an injury, possibly an MCL sprain, Express UK reported. Of course, while NBA basketball lovers may feel for Zion, the memes popped up on Twitter after LeBron commented.
Hope young fella is ok! Literally blew thru his 👟. 🙏🏾
— LeBron James (@KingJames) February 21, 2019
The tampering meme for Zion's Nikes
After LeBron chose Anthony Davis for the All-Star game, TNT's Ernie Johnson asked him, "You sure you want him to be your teammate?" LeBron replied, "I'm very sure of that." Giannis laughingly asked, "Isn't that tampering?" Now the Nike shoe blow out got some memes referring to that and Lakers' trade tampering rumors.
— Adam Ben-Moche (@adam_benmoche) February 21, 2019
Nike executive meme
This meme speaks for itself, as this is not a good look for Nike.
Nike execs right now: pic.twitter.com/71B9irrcHn
— Will 郭 (@GuoBlue) February 21, 2019
Nike memes dominate over Zion Williamson's broken shoe
No big surprize that Nike takes a bit of a hammering. After all, Zion's a huge prospect for the game of basketball. Plus, the incident went down in front of a hyped crowd that included Barack Obama courtside.
Nike HQ right now... pic.twitter.com/avnmonrd56
— Jack (@iVisenya) February 21, 2019
Expensive event and the star blew out
Those people who got into the venue for the game paid a lot of dough for the privilege. Zion went down, ESPN went crazy and some wallets felt poorer for it.
All the people at the #dukevsunc game who paid $2000 for their ticket after Zion fell pic.twitter.com/uTYSnOKzyB
— J Co. meyvn (@jcoisit) February 21, 2019
LaVar Ball's Big Baller brand
Of course, LaVar's Big Baller brand came into the story. Of course it would, as the whole world knows about that brand of basketball shoes.
Strollin up to pitch Zion an endorsement deal after his Nikes fell apart. pic.twitter.com/lDWRSVkZcn
— Knape Hall (@KnapeHall) February 21, 2019
Adidas, Nike's competitor
This meme refers to a major competitor to Nike in the world of sporting shoes and apparel.
Meanwhile, Adidas exec's somewhere like pic.twitter.com/iN5HYbe46g
— Troy R Myles (@tmyles47) February 21, 2019