There’s already a lot of convergence between the NBA and the NFT industry. NBA Top Shot helped drive NFTs into the mainstream earlier this year, and some teams even have their own NFT projects. But not every high-profile NFT project lands well with collectors, as NBA player John Wall just discovered.
The Houston Rockets player has rapidly embraced NFTs, tweeting just a week ago that he was “hopping into the NFT wave” before announcing his own Ethereum-based NFT profile pictures project on Tuesday. Dubbed Baby Ballers, the project’s first teaser image shows a cartoonish illustrated baby spinning a ball on its finger and standing against a 3D basketball court.
But there’s an early hitch or two, and Wall has received criticism as a result. Most glaringly, the initial NFT teaser image was revealed to have repurposed a screenshot from Epic Games’ popular video game Fortnite, as social media sleuths quickly discovered. On top of that, the illustration appears to be strongly inspi
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