‘Stay in Yo Lane’: LaVar Ball sells T-shirt with his controversial words on Big Baller Brand website
Who knows when exactly the lightbulb moment occurred for LaVar Ball.
Was it last week, when he told Fox Sports reporter Kristine Leahy to “stay in your lane,” a comment that was taken by some to be disrespectful and possibly sexist?
Or was it the next night when Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant jokingly used the phrase toward a reporter?
Regardless of when it happened, Ball realized at some point that his controversial words might actually represent a moneymaking opportunity.
And we all know the father of former UCLA star Lonzo Ball seems unable to pass up a moneymaking opportunity.
So look what is now for sale on the Big Baller Brand website, the same one that sells the $495 Lonzo Ball signature shoe:
“By popular demand, now you can give everyone some smart words to live by, without opening your mouth,” the caption for the Big Baller Brand’s $50 “Stay In Yo Lane” T-shirt reads.
There’s also a $60 tank top marketed toward women:
While arguing with Ball last week on “The Herd With Colin Cowherd” show, Leahy pointed out that she and other women wouldn’t want to wear a shirt with the words “Big Baller” on it.
None of the shirts inspired by that conversation have those words on it — just the “BBB” logo … and the new catch phrase Ball originally used to put down a woman.
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