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Lonzo Ball Offers Least Enthusiastic Endorsement Of Luke Walton Possible
As expected and possibly intended, Lonzo Ball, stateside, is having to answer for his dad’s commentary on the fit of Luke Walton as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. Here we have the young man trying to navigate his way through this trial with as many clichés and platitudes as possible:...
Lonzo Ball's Father Says No Lakers Player Wants To Play For Luke Walton
LaVar Ball, right now, is probably most associated with overheated popup retail openings and the bizarre basketball odyssey of his two younger sons. He’s a reality TV star and a famous Famous Person, and part of his job as a person who is famous for being famous is to say outlandish things in order ...
Ball Family Baltic Basketball Circus Halted By Disallowed Reality Show Cameras
Let us check in on the jet-setting Ball brothers, whose detour into the murky waters of international professional basketball is totally about professional development and preparing for the NBA and is not at all about sacrificing a couple of promising careers at the altar of personal brand managemen...
Ball Brothers’ Lithuanian Team Abandons Baltic League To Play Family Shoe-Branded Exhibition<em></em>
Who’s ready for the debuts of LaMelo and LiAngelo Ball??? Hopefully not fans of the Baltic League, because Vytautas Prienai announced today that they’d be pulling out of the Baltic Sea region’s second-most prestigious tournament to play in something called the Big Baller Brand Challenge Games, which...
Ball Family Arrives In Vilnius, Gets Serenaded With "Welcome To Lithuania"
LaVar, LaMelo, and LiAngelo Ball touched down in Lithuania today ahead of the kids’ scheduled debut for their new team, Vytautas Prienu. Their appearance was cause for a pretty wild welcome party....
Lithuanian Basketball Fixer Secured Two Ball Brothers By Getting At Them On Twitter<em></em>
LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball will head across the Atlantic into the Lithuanian countryside in a few weeks, and Andrew Keh of the New York Times visited Prienai to get a sense of what they’re getting themselves into. He found a small town with Ball family fever, where the pizza joints are blaring about t...
The Ball Brothers Must Visit Lithuania's Extremely Metal Devil Museum
This afternoon brought the news that two American teens would move to Lithuania to make little money playing basketball for a mediocre club in front of few people....
Ball Brothers Sign With Tiny Lithuanian Club
LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball have reportedly signed professional contracts with a European team, just like LaVar Ball promised, and their destination is ... Lithuanian minnow Prienu Vytautas? Adrian Wojnarowski and Jonathan Givony first reported that talks were serious this afternoon and Woj protege Sha...
Here Are All The Big Ballers
There were lots and lots of people lined up in front of a pop-up retail store in New York Sunday afternoon, waiting to spend hundreds of dollars for Big Baller Brand shoes. Here they are:...
Ball Brothers Sign With Agent And Will Apparently Try To Play Overseas
Less than a week after LaVar Ball pulled his middle son LiAngelo from UCLA after a vague disagreement with the school regarding discipline for the freshman’s shoplifting arrest in China, Ball told ESPN that both LiAngelo and 16-year-old LaMelo had signed with agent Harrison Gaines and would soon sig...
LaVar Ball Says He Has Pulled LiAngelo Ball From UCLA
LaVar Ball has pulled his middle son, LiAngelo Ball, out of his freshman year at UCLA, according to a report from TMZ, which was then confirmed by ESPN. ...
The American Experiment Has Failed
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo lectured LaVar Ball about gratitude tonight, following President Donald Trump’s whiny rant this weekend about how he should have left Ball’s son LiAngelo in a Chinese jail with two other UCLA basketball players because he doesn’t feel that LaVar has been thankful enough....
Donald Trump Wishes He'd Left UCLA Teens In Chinese Prison Because His Feelings Are Hurt
You knew this was coming. Just as sure as you were that President Trump would take credit for three shoplifting dipshits not being condemned to prison, you had to know he would express resentment over LaVar Ball downplaying the role Trump played in expediting the return of three UCLA freshman to fre...
LaVar Ball Burns President Trump For Supposed Intervention In China
LiAngelo Ball and two other UCLA freshmen shoplifted some expensive sunglasses while in Hangzhou, and were arrested for it. From the looks of things, the Chinese government elected not to take the dipshit theft of a few dipshit college athletes very seriously, and so the young dipshit perpetrators w...
LiAngelo Ball And Fellow UCLA Shoplifters Are Coming Home
After just under a week of speculation of how the legal process would play out for a trio of UCLA freshmen caught shoplifting in China, LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley, and Jalen Hill are on their way back to America. The group was released by Chinese police following their detainment for nabbing Louis Vu...
Report: Trump Asked China To Cut LiAngelo Ball And The UCLA Shoplifters Some Slack
According to the Washington Post’s David Nakamura, Donald Trump asked Chinese president Xi Jinping to look into helping out UCLA freshmen LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley, and Jalen Hill, who were arrested last week when they were caught shoplifting from high-end luxury stores....
Middle Ball Child Left Behind In China After Alleged Shoplifting
The three UCLA freshmen—Jalen Hill, Cody Riley, and LiAngelo Ball—caught stealing from a Louis Vuitton store in Hangzhou last week were not able to accompany their teammates back to the United States Saturday night, reports ESPN. Apparently this is not because they will be spending the remainder of ...
Now Lonzo Ball Has John Wall To Deal With
We’ve already seen the impact of LaVar Ball’s tryhard dad-bluster in the way his son was treated on the court by Patrick Beverley, but it seemed unfair to draw too big an inference from that. That’s because Patrick Beverley is, if you want to be nice about it, a particularly feisty brand of point gu...
God Help Me, I Am About To Agree Whole-Heartedly With LaVar Ball
There are times—yes, there are—when LaVar Ball is right. Often he is a grandstanding buffoon who gets the benefit of the doubt for drumming up attention for his sons, without any particular concern for whether his sons much want that attention, and with even less concern for whether the gains earned...
Kenan Thompson's LaVar Ball Impression Is Pretty Good
It’s hard to parody a man like LaVar Ball, who is already a parody of himself. And yet, I laughed a few times at Kenan Thompson’s impression, which is deadly accurate and benefits from his willingness to lean into the absurd brags....