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LaMelo Ball’s own language, in bubbles

Puma LaFrancé is the signature line of basketball player LaMelo Ball, named after his middle name. It is not a single model but a range, with one unmistakable design language: bubbles. Round, teardrop-shaped overlays creep across the upper, and the sole features the same spherical cavities and studs. It gives the shoes an organic, almost otherworldly look unlike anything else.

A low and a runner

The line revolves around a few core shapes. The LaFrancé itself is a chunky low with the teardrop overlays across the entire upper and a thick, sculpted sole. Then there’s the LaFrancé RNR, a runner version where the bubbles are mainly in the wavy, inflated sole. New iterations keep appearing under names like Amour, but the bubble signature runs through them all.

Signature of a player

LaFrancé is the lifestyle side of LaMelo Ball at Puma, alongside his performance basketball shoes like the MB.01. While the latter are for on-court use, LaFrancé targets the street: eye-catching, playful and deliberately different. It fits the player’s image, who also makes bold choices off the court.

Why it stands out

The bubble language is the whole point. Where most sneakers are clean and flat, LaFrancé makes the surface deliberately busy, with shapes that seem to grow out of the shoe. That places it in Puma’s eye-catching, chunky corner where the RS-X also sits. It’s a shoe for those who want to stand out, not for those who want to disappear into the crowd.

What differs per model

Because this is a line, the shape varies by model: low or runner, with the bubbles on the upper or mainly in the sole. What remains the same is that organic design language and LaMelo Ball’s signature. On this page the versions are shown together so you can compare them side by side.

On this page you’ll see which versions of the Puma LaFrancé are currently hottest according to the Hypescore, from which price they’re available and in how many shops they’re in stock.