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Atlanta • A spokesperson for adidas told USA TODAY Sports that the company has stopped selling T-shirts inspired by Louisville guard Kevin Ware's No. 5 due to a "use of logo issue."
"The shirt is not currently for sale," the spokesperson, Madeline Breskin, wrote in an email.
Earlier this week, adidas was advertising shirts for $24.99 through Louisville's website that read "Ri5e To The Occasion," which was supposed to pay tribute to Ware, who suffered a gruesome open fracture to his right tibia last Sunday during the Midwest Regional final. Ware has subsequently become a national sensation, appearing on the David Letterman Show on Thursday before traveling to the Final Four.
Ware was not made available to the media on Friday due to fatigue.
Initially, Louisville said it had waived any traditional royalties for sales of the T-shirt and that instead adidas would make contributions to the university's scholarship fund.
But questions have subsequently arisen about the T-shirt, both in the appearance of a shoe company profiting off Ware's injury and whether it might be illegal since Louisville acknowledged that the No. 5 represents Ware.
East beats West in all-star game
James Ennis of Long Beach State scored 13 points, and Kansas State's Rodney McGruder hit four free throws in the closing seconds to give the East team an 87-81 victory over the West in the college all-star game at the Final Four.
The East team, coached by Tennessee's Cuonzo Martin, built a 15-point lead in the second half before squandering nearly all of it.