BIG BALLER BRAND!!!
I understand that Lithuania isn’t China, Greece or Italy, but they are trying the Ball boys like superstars, case in point via Yahoo.
The looming arrivals of LaMelo and LiAngelo Ball mean first-division Lithuanian club Vytautas Prienai will soon have their jerseys available for sale in the United States.
Vytautas will sell the jerseys exclusively on Amazon in early January, the first step toward marketing the brothers stateside, a team official told Yahoo Sports.
The team has shipped approximately 500 game jerseys — half LaMelo jerseys and half LiAngelo ones — to an Amazon warehouse in the U.S. and is expected to ship more to deliver late in the first week of January, the team official said. For Vytautas, LaMelo and LiAngelo have provided the branding to create marketing deals in Lithuania and the U.S.
LaMelo, 16, and LiAngelo, 19, signed one-year deals with Vytautas on Dec. 11 and will report to Lithuania on Jan. 3. They are expected to make their debuts in a Baltic League game Jan. 9.
The jerseys are expected to sell out immediately as soon as they hit Amazon, so if you want one, you will have to be fast.