Nike “working to determine the difficulty.”
34 seconds into Wednesday evening’s extremely anticipated showdown between the #1 Duke Blue Devils and #eight UNC Tar Heels, Duke’s star freshman Zion Williamson ripped via his Nike PG 2.5s and instantly left the sport with what the staff later described as a light knee sprain.
Williamson, the projected #1 general decide within the 2019 NBA Draft, didn’t return to the sport and should choose to sit down out the rest his freshman somewhat than threat one other freak harm.
Nike launched the next assertion on Wednesday evening with reference to Williamson’s exploding PG 2.5:
“We’re clearly involved and wish to want Zion a speedy restoration. The standard and efficiency our merchandise are utmost significance. Whereas that is an remoted incidence, we’re working to determine the difficulty.”
The Blue Devils have been unable to recuperate after their star participant exited the sport, because the Tar Heels dominated en path to an 88-72 victory.
“It put everybody within the place having to determine it out, enjoying with out him, whereas enjoying a extremely good staff. It isn’t a great scenario,” Coach Mike Krzyzewski stated. “At halftime the conclusion that he isn’t there settled in. And we performed horrible to begin the second half. The ultimate 16 minutes I assumed we performed very well, nevertheless it was too late.”
In 26 video games this season, Williamson is averaging 21.6 factors to go together with eight.eight rebounds per evening.
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