LaVar Ball just can’t stay out of the news, and it’s all negative. In the same week he disrespected FS1 reporter Kristine Leahy on national TV (she later started receiving death threats), now Ball is being accused of ripping off an Argentinian clothing company to create the Big Baller Brand.
The Argentinian company, Baller Brand, posted to Instagram to call Ball a “thief … who wasn’t creative enough to create his own brand name just [sic] took ours.”
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Who knows if Ball even knows this company exists, but there’s no question Baller Brand predates Big Baller Brand. The Argentinian company was established in 2006. Ball founded Big Baller Brand in 2016.
As Uproxx noticed, maybe Baller Brand should not be talking too much about rip offs, considering they borrowed the Philadelphia 76ers jersey design for some of their products in a tribute to Allen Iverson.
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Earlier this month, Ball was also accused of ripping off the personal logo of Ohio State football coach Zach Smith when creating the logo for Lonzo Ball’s new (and ridiculously overpriced) ZO2 shoes.
LaVar Ball has not yet responded to the accusations by Baller Brand, but he has upped his asking price for companies interesting in making a shoe deal with the Big Baller Brand to $3 billion. Here’s what he said Wednesday on The Herd with Colin Cowherd, per the Associated Press:
“If they want to talk to me now, it just went up to $3 billion. Triple Bs — billion, billion, billion,” LaVar said.
He also repeated that he wants Lonzo to play only for the Los Angeles Lakers, the hometown team that got the No. 2 pick Tuesday night in the NBA draft lottery.
“Now that Lonzo’s headed to Los Angeles, what they should have done is give me a billion dollars and let me be on my way,” LaVar said.
Good luck with that.
[Uproxx]
