Penny Hardaway, Nike to release sneaker inspired by Lester Middle
On Nov. 28, 2011, basketball coach Desmond Merriweather talked to his team before a game in the Lester Middle School gym in Binghampton. Merriweather was diagnosed with cancer in 2012, and his longtime friend Penny Hardaway began assisting him. Merriweather died in 2015. (Alan Spearman/AP file)
Report: Nike is releasing a pair of its Air Max Penny 1 with a colorway inspired by the Binghampton school where Penny once coached.
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Parth Upadhyaya covers the Memphis Tigers men’s basketball team. A Raleigh, N.C., native and a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Media and Journalism, Upadhyaya is a longtime college hoops junkie. Prior to joining The Daily Memphian in 2022, he covered high school sports in western Pennsylvania for the Beaver County Times and Penn State football for the Centre Daily Times.
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