

SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg passed away at the age of 57 on Tuesday after battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) for a year and a half.

Fans around the world paid their respects to the late SpongeBob creator in many different ways throughout the day and one of those fans was New York Knicks centre Enes Kanter, who showed up to the Knicks’ Tuesday night tilt with the Detroit Pistons in a SpongeBob SquarePants T-shirt.



‪🙏😔 A post shared by Enes Kanter (@eneskanter11) on Nov 27, 2018 at 2:04pm PST

Kanter has shown his love for SpongeBob throughout the years, and even shared screenshots of the times he got mentioned by the official SpongeBob Twitter account.



😱😍 @spongebob ❤️ A post shared by Enes Kanter (@eneskanter11) on Aug 2, 2018 at 5:37pm PDT

Hillenburg brought a lot of joy to people around the world for many years and he will be greatly missed.

(H/T Instagram/eneskanter11)