On Monday, Nike brought back the LeBron and Kobe puppets, in a series of ads designed to celebrate Bryant having his No. 8 and No. 24 jerseys retired by the Los Angeles Lakers. The ads follow a common ...

Kobe Bryant’s jersey retirement ceremony will include an extended, 21-minute halftime celebration at the Lakers’ game against the Warriors on Monday night. The Lakers and Nike are holding nothing back ...

↵One of the most unsettling aspects of the Nike Puppet campaign is the underlying subtext to it all (this, by the way, is also a sure sign that one might be overthinking things a lot; this being ...

Elimination beckoned, and we all figured we knew what that meant. The run was over, here comes summer vacation, it’s time to go fishing. Except the Nike puppets didn’t go away. Even without LeBron ...

On the day of Kobe Bryant's jersey retirement, Nike released three videos rehashing its old puppet campaign with him and LeBron James. In "Burden," Bryant's puppet brags about having both No. 8 and No ...

An agreement has finally been reached regarding the fate of a videotape showing Xavier's Jordan Crawford dunking on Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James during a pick-up game at a Nike-sponsored ...

Before the record was smashed, Nike released a comical commercial featuring two persnickety puppet pundits who were set on discrediting LeBron James. In the first ‘Mad and Madder’ episode, viewers see ...

LeBron James is back in the headlines after a relatively quiet few weeks in the NBA offseason. The four-time MVP recently speculated on how incarcerated WNBA star Brittney Griner could be feeling due ...

An advertising icon is up for sale: Lil' Penny. A production puppet, which was a miniature version of Orlando Magic guard Penny Hardaway and the centerpiece of a Nike ad campaign in the 1990s, is ...

The firm teams with Legacy EFX for "Movin' On Up!" pilot. By Alex Ben Block Kobe Bryant LeBron James Nike Puppets - H 2011 If the script and effects work come together as expected, Revolution will ...