Ball is life. And life is memes.

Last month, shortly after the release of Space Jam: A New Legacy , people everywhere flocked to their local big box retailer to steal the heads of LeBron James action figures. And yes, it started as a TikTok trend. For regular, non-TikToking patrons of Walmart, the sight of shelves stocked with decapitated LeBron toys was pretty perplexing. Many turned to Twitter for answers as more and more LeBron heads mysteriously vanished. The trend became so widespread that Walmart resorted to locking up t…