- Liz Cambage enjoyed a day of shopping in Melbourne
- He has been banned from playing in the Paris Olympic Games.
Controversial Australian basketball star Liz Cambage was impossible to miss when she was spotted shopping this week with a friend in Melbourne.
Cambage, 32, surpassed her teammate shortly after the polarizing sports identity won her first Chinese Women’s Basketball Association championship with the SiChuan Yuanda team.
Shortly after returning to Melbourne, Cambage headed straight to the Liberty Belle Skin Center in luxury Toorak, where she was “determined to make her skin look great again” after her flight from Asia.
He also attracted attention after dining with social media personality Charlie Wood at the Top Paddock Café in Richmond.
The two are understood to be close friends and are not dating.
Controversial Australian basketball star Liz Cambage was impossible to miss when she was spotted shopping this week with a friend in Melbourne (pictured).
Cambage, 32, one-upped his two mates when they met in trendy Armadale while the star also went shopping in Toorak.
It comes after the polarizing sporting identity won his first WCBA championship with SiChuan Yuanda in China.
Cambage signed a three-month, $1 million contract with SiChuan Yuanda, and the move quickly paid off with some late-season silverware.
Cambage will not participate in the Paris Games after she was blacklisted by the Opals when she allegedly made racial comments towards the Nigerian national team in a warm-up match.
Last month, Cambage sparked controversy once again when he was ejected from a game in China for brutally elbowing one opponent in the head and punching another in the face.
The former WNBA player and Australian Opal found her career in jeopardy after allegedly making racial comments towards the Nigerian national team in a warm-up match ahead of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
Opals teammates and members of the Nigerian team alleged that Cambage called his opponents “monkeys” and told them to “go back to your third world country” during a break in the game.
Those comments put her on the offside with her Nigerian-American Los Angeles Sparks teammates and she was eventually released by the American franchise.
Her comments also divided the Opals camp and she has since been blacklisted from representing her country again.
Facing basketball oblivion, star center Cambage signed a deal rumored to be worth $1 million with SiChuan Yuanda, and the move quickly paid off with some late-season trophies.
Playing for just three months, Cambage earned more than four times as much as the WNBA’s highest-paid stars, with Supermax contracts capped at $234,936 per season.
Following her ejection last month after using her elbow, basketball fans were quick to fiercely criticize the Australian star, calling her a “clown” and saying “a leopard doesn’t change its spots.”
Liz Cambage (second from right) was in the headlines recently after she was seen on video punching an opponent in the face during a match in China.
The vision also showed an excited Cambage elbowing an opponent in the head (pictured) before acting as if nothing had happened. She was later banned from the game.
The 32-year-old currently has a $1 million contract with China’s Sichuan Yuanda.
Cambage (pictured, second from left) was eventually banned from representing the Opals again after a long list of scandals.
Cambage (left) did not endear herself to her Nigerian teammates in the US WNBA (center and right) when she allegedly racially abused members of the Nigerian national team.
As the Opals prepare for a tough campaign at the Paris Olympics, several online commentators said they were glad Cambage was not part of the tournament.
“I’m a proud Australian but Liz is an embarrassment not only to the majority of Australians but to all those players and ‘unbiased’ viewers around the world who follow the sport,” one fan posted.
“Liz has some issues to work out,” a second posted.
‘What a waste of talent. She could have gone down as one of the all-time greats if she wasn’t a magnet for drama.
‘I’m so glad she got kicked out of the Opals. “Her behavior is frankly disgraceful,” added a third.
