Basketball Shoe With Bible Verse From NBA’s Jonathan Isaac Lands at Museum of the Bible

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FILE - Orlando Magic forward Jonathan Isaac (1) scores past San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama (1) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in San Antonio, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. Isaac wears a version of his shoe, the Unitus Judah 1. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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“Who would have thought an NBA player and the Museum of the Bible have something in common? But they do,” said Walther, who said the shoe is expected to be part of a forthcoming exhibit focused on sports.

As he stood with his family members, Isaac spoke of how the museum exhibit could last for the ages.

“If Jesus doesn’t come back, our kids’ kids’ kids’ kids’ will be able to come to the Museum of the Bible” and see their forebear’s basketball shoe, he said.

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Adelle M. Banks, production editor and a national reporter, joined RNS in 1995. An award-winning journalist, she previously was the religion reporter at the Orlando Sentinel and a reporter at The Providence Journal and newspapers in the upstate New York communities of Syracuse and Binghamton.

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