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LaMelo Ball and his brother LiAngelo Ball unleashed an offensive showcase, as they dropped 39 points and 44 points respectively in an exhibition game.
As reported by Ryan Nelson of Slam Online, in a Big Baller Brand exhibition game titled “BBB London Clash Game,” LaMelo finished with 39 points, 16 rebounds, and 16 assists. His brother LiAngelo had 44 points. Their team Vytautas came up with the win, 127-110, against the London Lions.
This is the recent scoring outburst from LiAngelo, who dropped 72 points in another exhibition game just hours after declaring for the NBA Draft. LaMelo, meanwhile, scored 36 points.
Below is a clip of their highlights:
Many believe that such scoring outbursts were staged by their father LaVar Ball to garner hype. Former NBA player Gilbert Arenas believes that the exhibition game against a Chinese team was arranged, as he shared during an episode of Complex's Out of Bounds.
“If you average 15 points in an above-average high school league and then you enter your name in the draft and you score 72, it’s called staged,” Arenas said. “Like if you looked at the crowd, there wasn’t many people there. This was a Big Baller-presented game. And you’re in Lithuania.”
“They’re not the overseas Guangdong team. They’re not the B team. They’re not the C team. Those are the little kids,” Arenas said. “Like if you look at them, they look like some little kids. It’s like a 15-to-18-year-old trying to make the second squad.”
LaVar has said before that he wants all of his three of his sons to play in the NBA. Lonzo has made it and is making a name for himself with the Los Angeles Lakers. Now LaVar is busy training LiAngelo and LaMelo. Hopefully, such antics will work.
