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I don't watch a lot of basketball, but I did see a game yesterday where the player's shoe tore wide open.

In sports, equipment failure is certainly part of the game but in US college sports (which is typically well-funded, meaning they don't need to play using substandard equipment) I have never before seen a shoe failure such as this.

Have there been other cases in college or professional basketball where shoes have failed in this manner?

broken shoe

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  • ftw.usatoday.com/2019/02/zion-williamson-nike-shoe-history – pacoverflow Feb 22 at 5:42
  • USA today was able to find a few clips of failures, I see. Half were not the same type of failure since one was caused by pulling from under another player's foot and another was a sole coming off. Two were similar failures. 8 years worth of games and so few documented failures. And commentators saying "I've never seen that before". – Dale Feb 24 at 2:12
  • For what it's worth - before I got old I was squatting 650. I was pretty skinny to be squatting that so it was a rotate and press hard movement. I could blow out a pair of Nike running shoes (air pockets deflate) every 3-4 sessions. No hole or puncture just no air and not really sure I could tell when it happened but it was repeatable. Nike sent me a couple of replacements when I complained. A side note is if you have blown out air pockets terrible for running/sports but super comfy - like slippers. – Coach-D Mar 10 at 3:40
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Yes, there have been.

From 2010 to 2014 there have been approximately 10 NBA sneaker mishaps. https://www.complex.com/sneakers/2014/04/history-of-sneaker-mishaps-in-the-nba/tony-wroten-loses-sole-of-his-jordan-x

This is an uncommon occurance, but in the NBA, it seems to happen about 2 times every season. If a shoe just falls off someone's foot, they keep on playing. The link above shows a history of sneaker mishaps from 2010 to 2014

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