National Basketball Association

An NBA center's shoe is nearly as big as Simone Biles

Published Nov. 15, 2016 2:56 p.m. ET

Andrew Lynch

Fact: Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles is a tiny human being, standing 4-foot-9 and weighing in at just over 100 pounds.

Fact: Robin Lopez is a giant human being, standing over seven feet tall and rocking size-20 sneakers.

When the former meets the latter, the result is an absolutely absurd photo:

I'm no physicist, but by my rough estimate, that shoe is about one-eighth the size of Biles herself. She could basically do her entire floor exercise within Lopez's kicks. Yet as preposterous as that image is, at least Biles didn't use Lopez's shoe as a phone, à la Allen Iverson with Shaq's shoe: