Liz Cambage towers over her friend as the controversial basketball star visits one of Australia’s most exclusive fashion centers following the biggest win of her turbulent career.

Controversial Australian basketball star Liz Cambage was impossible to miss when she was spotted shopping this week with a friend in Melbourne.

Cambage, 32, towered over her companion shortly after her polarizing sporting identity won her first Chinese Women’s Basketball Association championship with the SiChuan Yuanda team.

Shortly after returning to Melbourne, Cambage visited the Liberty Belle Skin Center in upscale Toorak, where she was “determined to get her skin looking great again” after her flight from Asia.

She also turned heads after dining with social media identity Charlie Wood at Top Paddock Café in Richmond.

It is understood the two are close friends and are not dating.

Controversial Australian basketball star Liz Cambage was impossible to miss when she was spotted shopping this week with a friend in Melbourne (pictured)

Cambage, 32, towered over his two companions when they met in trendy Armadale while the star was also shopping in Toorak

This comes after the polarizing sports identity won his first WCBA championship with SiChuan Yuanda in China.

Cambage signed a three-month, $1 million deal with SiChuan Yuanda – and the move quickly paid off with some late-season silverware.

Cambage will not take part in the Paris Games after being blacklisted by the Opals after allegedly making racist remarks towards the Nigerian national team during a warm-up match.

Last month, Cambage sparked controversy again when he was kicked out of a match in China for violently elbowing an opponent in the head and punching another in the face.

Former WNBA player and Australian Opal has found her career in ruins after allegedly making racist remarks towards the Nigerian national team during a warm-up match ahead of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.

Opals teammates and members of the Nigerian team claimed Cambage called his opponents “monkeys” and told them to “go back to your third world country” during a break in play.

These comments knocked her out of the game along with her Nigerian-American teammates on the Los Angeles Sparks and she was eventually released by the American franchise.

Her comments also divided the Opals camp and she has since been blacklisted from ever representing her country again.

Facing basketball oblivion, star center Cambage then signed a $1 million contract with SiChuan Yuanda – and the move quickly paid off with some season-ending silverware.

Playing for just three months, Cambage earned more than four times as much as the highest-paid WNBA stars, with Supermax contracts capped at $234,936 per season.

After she was sent off last month for using her elbow, basketball fans were quick to lash out at the Australian star, calling her a ‘clown’ and saying ‘a leopard doesn’t change places’ .

Liz Cambage (second from right) recently made headlines after she was seen on video punching an opponent in the face during a match in China.

Vision also showed an excited Cambage elbowing an opponent in the head (pictured) before acting as if nothing had happened. She was later kicked out of the game

The 32-year-old currently enjoys a $1 million contract with China’s Sichuan Yuanda.

Cambage (pictured, second from left) was ultimately banned from representing the Opals after a long list of scandals

Cambage (left) didn’t endear herself to her Nigerian teammates in the US WNBA (center and right) when she allegedly insulted members of the Nigeria national team.

As the Opals prepare for a tough campaign at the Paris Olympics, several online commentators said they were happy that Cambage was not part of the tournament.

“I’m a proud Australian, but Liz is an embarrassment not only to most Australians, but to all those ‘unbiased’ players and spectators around the world who follow the sport,” one follower posted.

“Liz has some issues to work out,” posted a second.

“What a waste of talent. She could have become one of the biggest stars of all time if she wasn’t so drawn to drama.

“I’m so happy they kicked her out of the Opales. His behavior is just embarrassing,” added a third.