“They just like the shoe,” Hardaway says ... O’Neal and Nick Nolte and in Nike’s iconic Lil’ Penny ad campaign alongside a doll voiced by Chris Rock. A left knee injury in ’97 ...

Penny Hardaway recalls the exact moment he realized ... a Lil’ Penny lookalike doll pops up and asks, “You got room for a brother on your planet?” O’Neal responds by flicking the puppet ...

Li’l Penny dolls – short, 9-inch-tall versions – are making their national debut in Orlando this week. But hard-core Penny Hardaway fans may want to hang tight: A 14-inch-high version ...

Sometimes his mind drifts back as he watches games from the end of the bench, as Penny Hardaway ... into ballet, Hardaway getting the kids up and cheering, Hardaway having little dolls in his ...

the Chris Rock-voiced Lil Penny doll was a star character in classic 1990s Nike ads when Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway was one of the biggest rising stars in the NBA, other than Michael Jordan.

In the mid-1990s one figure stood above everyone else on the Orlando Magic. And he was a 4-foot tall puppet. Lil’ Penny is one of the iconic ads. The NBA figured out how to do star endorsements ...