Nike Stocks Skid After Star Blows Through Sneaker In Big College Game
-How'd you like to have been a Nike PR guru on Wednesday night? You're sitting on the couch, munching away, watching No. 8 North Carolina play No. 1 Duke, when Zion Williamson makes a hard cut on the basketball floor and his Nike-brand shoe explodes.
The disaster happened just 33 seconds into the big game, and Williamson, who injured his knee, left the court, never to return.
Worse, how'd you like to be the Nike guy who thought up the ad campaign slogan "It's gotta be the shoes!" Oh, it's the shoes, all right.
And one more, even worse, almost unimaginable, thing: Let's drop former president Barack Obama into the mix, put him courtside, and then have the TV cameras — somehow — capture him saying, "His shoe broke."...
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