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New York Knicks guard Nate Robinson is quickly turning into a marketing icon. After all, it's hard to avoid the little guy when he puts up 30 points every night.
So about a month after we said it was time for Robinson to get some advertising coin thrown his way, the folks at Nike [NKE
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CNBC has learned that, this weekend, Nike is putting Robinson on its big billboard above the Footaction [FL
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We love it and think it's going to get a ton of buzz. By the way, remember that green Spalding ball that Robinson used to win the Slam Dunk Contest? Well, someone won the auction for it yesterday. It sold for an astounding $8,650.
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