LaMelo Ball, PUMA Sued By Big Baller Brand Cofounder, Claims $200 Mil in Damages

Alan Foster — who cofounded the Huge Baller Model — is dragging the Balls to courtroom as soon as once more … this time he is suing LaVar Ball, Tina Ball, LaMelo Ball in addition to PUMA, alleging they screwed him out of a whole bunch of tens of millions of {dollars}.

Foster’s claims have been spelled out in a brand new lawsuit filed in federal courtroom in California earlier this week … some 4 years after he had a falling out with the Ball household over the BBB enterprise.

Within the go well with, obtained by TMZ Sports activities, Foster says as a part of his function at BBB, he helped develop Melo’s model.

Foster alleges he got here up with the “MB1” line for the Charlotte Hornets level guard when the hooper was simply a young person — after which he filed for a number of logos for it. Foster claims all of it ultimately led to the creation of Melo’s first signature shoe, the MB1 — which he says was extremely profitable.

Nonetheless, Foster says a couple of years later … in an try and push Foster out of the corporate, LaVar created a second model of BBB — and tried to switch over Foster’s logos to chop him out of the “big income” from the profitable model.

As well as, Foster says when Melo in the end signed a profitable shoe contract with PUMA, the basketball participant and the attire firm infringed on his logos once they created their new signature shoe, the MB.01.

“LaMelo was instrumental in creating his first signature shoe with Huge Baller Model,” Foster wrote within the go well with. “He was totally conscious of the existence of the LaMelo Logos — he helped design them!”

Foster continued, “He knew that his Huge Baller Model signature shoe was known as the ‘MB1’ and that the identify was protected by federal trademark. But, regardless of his information of all of this, LaMelo willfully and intentionally selected to call the signature shoe he created and designed with PUMA the ‘MB1’ in violation of the LaMelo Logos.”

Foster alleges the damages he is sustained over all of it exceed $200 million.

In fact, this isn’t the primary time Foster has gone after LaVar in courtroom … he beforehand sued after alleging LaVar used BBB firm cash to fund his lavish life-style.