LiAngelo Ball Leaves UCLA
Reading between the lines it looks like the suspensions to Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill are going to be long enough that those players won't be seeing the court anytime soon so LaVar pulled the plug. They definitely will not suit up to face Michigan on Saturday.
That's good for us because UCLA has been thin in the frontcourt and could really use their 4* big men. Their center is a double-double machine but he doesn't have a backup and their forwards haven't provided much.
But a little schadenfreude never hurt anybody and LaVar's meltdown has been pretty comical. He claims that the punishment is too harsh, especially for a player like LiAngelo who he thinks is the best shooter on the team. He also isn't transfering and will just work out for the draft(?). Finally, he claims that UCLA used him to get Lonzo which is true but only because LaVar made them a package deal.
At least UCLA can get out of their commitment to LaMelo, the most overrated recruit in the history of college basketball.
December 4th, 2017 at 5:11 PM ^
There's an article over at ESPN about it, but his dad basically said China treated his son better than UCLA.
December 4th, 2017 at 6:37 PM ^
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December 5th, 2017 at 3:22 AM ^
Fake news!
December 4th, 2017 at 5:11 PM ^
December 4th, 2017 at 5:18 PM ^
"But every time they score two 3-pointers, it's a game of runs. Don't call timeout, because that's means you're scared. You make two 3-pointers on me, I got two more to come. ... Do the Big Baller move. Don't call no timeouts."
I can't believe we got LaVar Ball banned from the site.
December 4th, 2017 at 5:45 PM ^
The Big Baller move....use double negatives to conclude the very opposite of your own ridiculous argument
December 4th, 2017 at 5:13 PM ^
December 4th, 2017 at 7:00 PM ^
Has a lot of Balls...
December 4th, 2017 at 5:14 PM ^
But can this please, please, please be the last time someone in the Ball family is the subject of a thread.
December 4th, 2017 at 5:18 PM ^
December 4th, 2017 at 5:15 PM ^
However, pulling LiAngelo and LaMelo both out of school is only hurting them at this point. You can’t tell me LaVar can develop LiAngelo better than UCLA can. On top of that LiAngelo needs the most time in college to have a chance at making it in the NBA out of the 3 brothers.
December 4th, 2017 at 5:19 PM ^
I doubt a team drafts LiAngelo in the first round without any post-high school tape.
December 4th, 2017 at 5:28 PM ^
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December 4th, 2017 at 5:35 PM ^
Not a realistic NBA prospect yet.
December 4th, 2017 at 5:20 PM ^
Because he said before the season LiAngelo was a one year player. Come on, man. He is not an NBA player. Throwing away your son's education is criminal.
December 4th, 2017 at 5:30 PM ^
"stardom" to the extent a Kardashian or Paris Hilton are stars. That is, for no other reason than making fools of themselves on a national stage. Of course, the sad thing is that our society just eats it up for some reason still unknown to me.
December 4th, 2017 at 6:14 PM ^
At least Lonzo has talent.
December 5th, 2017 at 12:21 AM ^
Our world is FLOODED with media. (ads on NBA players jerseys, BETWEEN-PLAY ads during this years college football games)
People wait in line and fawn over cell phones and unlimited data plans, waiting to get their next hit.
We live in the age of excess (obesity with the food, garages and basements hoarding junk, buying and throwing away so much useless fad-objects and terribly designed goods, filling landfills and the ocean, and now dopamine hits with the technology and stimulation)
Nearly 1/3 of the Americans said that didn't read a book this year (propotionaly thats over 100 million people--and we are not even capable of thinking about the impact of that scale).
if only a few hundred years ago we left the Dark Ages, then now we've entered the Bright Ages, where there's too much of everything, everything contradicts itself, and people choose to believe whatever makes them feel good (not that they didn't before, but today there are no consequences. 99% of people don't even know how to hunt and butcher an animal, deliver a baby, or build a structure--not suggesting we return to primitivism at all, just using it as an example for highlighting that nearly all of us are sadly divorced from our very real and unwavering material reality.)
Human beings, looking back on the last few thousand years, even the 20th century alone, could all use a lot more humility and self-reflection.
/rant, i apologize sometimes i just get so frustrated...
December 4th, 2017 at 7:02 PM ^
December 4th, 2017 at 8:23 PM ^
You've GOT to be kidding me. Being a narcissistic asshole is ok as long as you profit?
December 4th, 2017 at 5:16 PM ^
Lavar Ball is a douche. The end.
December 4th, 2017 at 6:38 PM ^
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December 4th, 2017 at 5:16 PM ^
All three kids will have a combined 6 meaningful years in the NBA. And only one is going to have meaningful years to begin with.
December 4th, 2017 at 5:16 PM ^
That will make for a very interesting draft day decision for teams. I'm assuming LaVar is going to do everything he can to get the Lakers to draft or sign him.
December 4th, 2017 at 6:47 PM ^
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December 4th, 2017 at 5:17 PM ^
LaMelo is going to be declared ineligible by the NCAA due to the Big Baller Brand.
Honestly, I enjoyed the Ball family clown show when it first showed up a year or two ago. But their 15 minutes of fame is way overplayed. The sooner they disappear the better.
December 4th, 2017 at 5:17 PM ^
WTH? who would draft this kid after never seeing him play against anyone but high schoolers? This kid is not Lebron or KD or Kobe...
December 4th, 2017 at 5:29 PM ^
Maybe a Chinese team would be interested...
December 4th, 2017 at 7:34 PM ^
as a signing bonus
December 4th, 2017 at 5:19 PM ^
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December 4th, 2017 at 8:32 PM ^
...you mean the Chinese prison rec league, sure!
December 4th, 2017 at 5:28 PM ^
December 4th, 2017 at 5:33 PM ^
I have seen a few Lakers games this year, and Lonzo is raw. He has exceptional court vision, but only average athleticism, and vast swaths of his game are un-developed (shooting mechanics, man on man defense, finishing around the rim).
December 4th, 2017 at 5:29 PM ^
This is sad. Dude does not have NBA talent. A college education could have made a difference.
December 4th, 2017 at 6:56 PM ^
Forgive me for having doubts as to how seriously he would've taken his "college education."
December 4th, 2017 at 5:30 PM ^
What if I told you, there was a family of players that did absolutely nothing on the court, but thought they were the kings of the basketball world?
ESPN 30 for 30 presents: Big Baller Brand
December 4th, 2017 at 5:33 PM ^
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December 4th, 2017 at 8:42 PM ^
...maybe. Probably not.
December 4th, 2017 at 5:34 PM ^
December 4th, 2017 at 5:42 PM ^
LaVar ball is a piece of shit and an awful father.