A New Jersey high school decided against hosting a “Nuttin’ But Azz (NBA)” basketball tournament that was apparently to have been played by women in thongs.
The event was scheduled for Newark’s West Side High School on July 21, according to an events page selling seats for up to $500. Music promoter Big Fendi, who has worked with musicians including Nicki Minaj, was linked to the tournament.
Four teams were to set to compete for a $10,000 prize.
“We ain’t doing no ugly ducklings,” Big Fendi said in a Facebook ad promoting the competition with graphic images of scantily clad women on a basketball court.
According to NJ.com, once advertising for the game made the rounds late last week, education officials decided the event would not take place in the Newark public school gym next month.
Big Fendi posted an Instagram mea culpa offering his “deepest apologies” to the city of Newark, everyone at the high school, local politicians and anyone else he offended by organizing the raunchy games that were not presented to officials in the same fashion the event was later advertised.
“We were doing an event and things went a little left and out of control and I take responsibility for that,” he said. “I want to apologize to the parents, to the students, and anyone else that was involved, man, my deepest apologies.”
A school district spokesperson told local site Tap Into Newark that the Nuttin’ But Azz event was antithetical to the school system’s mission and called its messaging “inappropriate, demeaning, and wrong.”
School officials haven’t returned a Daily News request for comment.
