The Louisiana State College Woman Tigers star Flau’jae Johnson confronted a serious draw back of commercialism and recognition when followers took benefit of her autograph. The incident uncovered the conning available in the market. Listening to the identical incident, the skilled New York Liberty star Breanna Stewart got here ahead to advise Johnson giving her titbits of knowledge.
Johnson on her podcast gave a glimpse into the darkish facet of recognition. She remembered an incident after her NCAA 2023 Championship title win that confirmed her hidden facet of the opportunistic world. “I remember last year like after we won the championship, it started getting hectic and people started showing up to the airport and having us sign things. And we realized we were signing stuff and they was selling on the internet for like $10,000, I was like oh no huh I ain’t signing nothing else,” Johnson stated, by way of the Better of Each Worlds with Flau’jae.
Johnson recollected the second when she had gained the nationwide championship by defeating the Iowa Hawkeyes within the NCAA 2023 season. Put up that, LSU acquired numerous limelight and the gamers began getting star therapy. It was then that somebody may need bought Johnson to signal with the blue pen and offered the product to different followers.
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“If they want you to sign something in a blue pen that means they’re selling,” Stewart responded. To which Johnson remarked “I done learned some, I done learned some from the goat cuz them pens do be blue. It’s like they had like, they, they had like the national championship like floor or whatever and like we was signing,”
An skilled Stewart who was the NCAA Champion in all her 4 years with the College of Connecticut Huskies from 2012-2016 suggested Johnson by no means ever to signal any autograph in blue. It’s stated that autographs in blue will be simply offered and replicated or scanned over different objects. Therefore, well-known individuals ought to keep away from utilizing blue pens whereas giving signatures since it could encourage a black marketplace for their objects.
Patrick Beverly would agree with Breanna Stewart’s recommendation for Flau’jae Johnson
Throughout an episode of ‘The Pat Bev Podcast with Rone’ in 2022, the Milwaukee Bucks star revealed that he too avoids signing with the blue pen. Beverly had then acknowledged the actual motive behind it which additionally got here as a studying for a lot of balling stars.
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“I was taught, maybe after my third year that you’re not supposed to use a blue pen because they can use that signature and slap it on another jersey and sell that, but you can’t do that with a black pen or grey pen,” Beverly acknowledged, as per Yahoo Sports activities.
Maybe, Johnson would take into account the learnings from Stewart and hopefully, different balling stars too will discover this and by no means signal with a blue pen.
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