Lavar Ball and BBB got these Nike execs mad :umad:

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I get that he's trying to get his Master P on but c'mon breh.

Lonzo's barely even marketable from what I've seen.

I just hope he doesn't force his son to "invest" in this shyt and tie up his lil rookie money.

Even in licensing deals, the other side gonna have a team of lawyers looking to minimize their own liability.
 
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ReturnOfJudah said:
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That's cold! You could at least give a nikka some shoe strangs to hang himself after the whole world get thru joking on him. :russ:
 
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SunZoo said:
Imagine if Lebron had done this from jump....
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LeBron James’s shoe deal with Nike may be worth more than $1 billion, his agent Maverick Carter hinted to GQ in a recent interview.

GQ pressed Carter to disclose the value of the deal, but Carter never specified an exact dollar amount. However when the interviewer asked whether Kanye West’s comment that the deal was worth $1 billion was accurate, Carter just smiled and pointed upward.
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You're not going to compete with Nike or Adidas. The better move is to take their money and create other opportunities.

When this BBB shyt flops we'll see what y'all have to say. No one here copped anything:mjlol:
 
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mcdivit85 said:
Dudes can say what they want about Lavar, but dude is smart. He's playing the ownership game and that is something cac society does not like to see from black men.

They have no problem paying you millions of dollars to be an employee because no one is worried about what a worker does :yeshrug:

The BBB brand doesn't need to take over the market. Since they own the brand, even if they get half of one percent of the shoe market, they'd be multi, multi millionaires with equity in a brand that they can expand as they see fit. That's called POWER!.

And Nike is right, Lavar Ball is the worse thing that happened.....to them. Along with Reebok, Adidas and every other sneaker brand. Because if other players start to capitalize on their own image and brand, they will start to do the same thing. Or players will link up in groups and make their own brands.

Imagine if Lebron, Westbrook, Harden and other star players decided to invest a couple million each into developing a brand and manufacturing sneakers? Hiring the same designers that make other sneakers for large brands. Leveraging their star power into relationships with major retailers.

They'd be a problem :mjgrin:

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You do realize this isn't the first time an athlete has done this, right? Marbury and Shaq did it before him. There's a reason why athletes don't go this route. It takes millions of dollars of R&D to get a shoe right in the first place and even more money to push it forward in the future. Nike is a machine and it's one less thing those athletes need to worry about. There's a way to go about this if you want to own your own brand, but he's doing it wrong and it's even worse that he's treating his son's career as collateral damage.

You don't help out other black folks by blindly cheerleading them to do something wrong. This could've been his plan with the 3rd kid, who is offensively talented and has a massive following, and it would've been 3-4 years of proper planning with checks he got from Nike to pay for the whole thing. If you're doing it smart and actually have power you're never using your own money.
 
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calh45 said:
You do realize this isn't the first time an athlete has done this, right? Marbury and Shaq did it before him. There's a reason why athletes don't go this route. It takes millions of dollars of R&D to get a shoe right in the first place and even more money to push it forward in the future. Nike is a machine and it's one less thing those athletes need to worry about. There's a way to go about this if you want to own your own brand, but he's doing it wrong and it's even worse that he's treating his son's career as collateral damage.

You don't help out other black folks by blindly cheerleading them to do something wrong. This could've been his plan with the 3rd kid, who is offensively talented and has a massive following, and it would've been 3-4 years of proper planning with checks he got from Nike to pay for the whole thing. If you're doing it smart and actually have power you're never using your own money.
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I love how people will give advice under the guise of caring about somebody's welfare and career. Between you and his father, I would bet his father cares more about his career than you. And beyond that, he cares that his son has a check after he stops entertaining you on NBA on TNT every Thursday night.

Yea, I know about Marbury and Shaq. They made money.

They might not have been the favorite shoe of the masses, but they made money.

They might have been sold in foreign countries moreso than the US, but they made money.

They might have even been sold in Wal-Mart, but guess what? They made money.

And how is doing something for yourself wrong? How is trying to be the owner wrong? How is not taking a dikk up the ass wrong?

Bro, you don't help blacks by cheerleading black people to keep letting everyone else be the owners while you hope to get a paycheck for using your celebrity. Think about how many millions these athletes get paid to be brand ambassadors. Now, think about how many millions or billions the owners must have in order to pay those athletes those millions in contracts.

I'm not saying don't leverage OPM, but they have more than enough startup capital if every star player invested a very small piece of their wealth into getting started with market research, product design and getting the proper leadership in place. While fishing for investors and venture capital for bring the product to market.

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