Entrepreneurial Pro Basketballer Runs Lansing Apparel Co., Helps Local Youth

NBA player and Lansing native Desmond Ferguson recently returned to Lansing to help young ballers and check on his business, Moneyball Sportswear, a Lansing-based athletic apparel company that sells basketball jerseys to high school teams.

According to excerpts from the article:

Headquartered in Lansing, Ferguson's company started out selling uniforms to public high school basketball teams in Detroit.

"I wanted something to fall back on after basketball and I've never wanted to work for anybody but me," said Ferguson, Moneyball's president.

Moneyball has expanded nationwide. Locally, it supplies uniforms to Lansing's three high schools—Everett, Eastern and Sexton.

Everett, Ferguson's alma mater, was the first school in Lansing he approached.

Read the entire article here.

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