Key Takeaways
- Angela White (formerly Blac Chyna) is launching Hearts Pure Elite, an Olympic-style 3x3 women’s basketball team debuting Aug. 30 at Ocean View High School in Huntington Beach with high school standouts Zulymar “Zu” Velazquez, Tatyana Aubry, Deja Smith, and Sky Newsome.
- The team extends her Hearts Pure Cosmetics brand into sports with black-and-pink “Focus. Discipline. Elevate.” branding and plugs into the 3’s League OC ecosystem founded by ex-UCLA player Blake Arnet and co-founded by NBA vet Darren Collison.
- White’s move into women’s basketball aligns with her broader reinvention—she’s sober, studying divinity, writing a 2027 memoir about leaving the Blac Chyna persona, and prioritizing faith, family, and keeping her kids offline.
Blac Chyna is taking her next venture to the basketball court. The entrepreneur, who now goes by her birth name Angela R. White, is launching Hearts Pure Elite, an Olympic-style 3x3 basketball team built around young female athletes and an effort to support women’s sports.
Per the event flier, Hearts Pure Elite will make its competitive debut on August 30 at a tournament hosted by 3’s League OC at Ocean View High School in Huntington Beach, California. The four-player roster features high school standouts Zulymar “Zu” Velazquez, Tatyana Aubry, Deja Smith and Sky Newsome. The tournament runs from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
The new team also expands one of White’s existing businesses into sports. Hearts Pure Elite takes its name from Hearts Pure Cosmetics, her beauty brand, and carries over its black-and-pink branding.
Promotional material for the squad declares, “Focus. Discipline. Elevate,” and describes the group as “more than a team” and “a movement.”
Its first tournament brings Hearts Pure Elite into an established basketball network. 3’s League OC was founded by former UCLA basketball player Blake Arnet and co-founded by NBA veteran Darren Collison, who spent more than a decade in the league and had multiple stints with the Indiana Pacers during his career.
For White, 38, the move into women’s basketball arrives during a period in which she has increasingly expanded her public identity beyond the Blac Chyna persona.
In July, White announced Sober Mine: Letting Go of Blac Chyna and Living My Faith, a memoir scheduled for release on January 12, 2027. The book will detail her experience with alcohol addiction, getting sober in 2022 and embracing her faith.
“For years, people knew me for headlines, opinions and assumptions, but now they’ll have the opportunity to hear directly from my heart,” she said while announcing the project.
White has also described that transformation as affecting how she raises her children. She shares son King Cairo, 13, with Tyga and daughter Dream, 9, with Rob Kardashian, and earlier this year said neither child is particularly interested in building an online presence.
“King and Dream, they don’t care about Instagram or TikTok or any of these type of things at all,” White said. “They’re just being kids, and I’m letting them be kids.”
She has similarly spoken about keeping boundaries in her co-parenting relationships and putting greater emphasis on family, sobriety, and her faith. White is currently pursuing a degree in divinity training and education and has said she wants her recent changes to demonstrate that a person’s past does not have to dictate what comes next.
