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Spire Institute’s LaMelo Ball, brother of Los Angeles Lakes guard Lonzo Ball, just demolished the St. Vincent-St. Mary basketball team — the high school alma mater of Lakers superstar LeBron James. Per Overtime, the Spire unleashed an 81-58 beating of the Fighting Irish. Check out the highlight clip below: LaMelo and Spire just TOOK DOWN […]

Since he made numerous eyebrow-raising statements last season, LaVar Ball had been suspiciously quiet during the 2018-19 campaign. On Monday night, the eldest Ball broke this streak and supplied yet another questionable line for the media to eat up. When a reporter from TMZ Sports questioned LaVar Ball on who was better as a teenager, […]

Lakers guard Lonzo Ball’s brother, LaMelo, has opponent cancel their scheduled game against his new high school team due to his professional experience. The youngest Ball played pro ball in Lithuania with the BC Vytautas and in the Junior Basketball League with the Los Angeles Ballers. Bill Difilippo of Dime Magazine wrote a column on […]

The state of Ohio moved on quickly from LeBron James. Now there are billboards of LaMelo Ball near Quicken Loans Arena after news broke that Lonzo Ball’s younger brother decided to enroll at Spire Academy in Ohio: New king of Ohio?? 👀 @MELOD1P @ZO2_ @KingJames pic.twitter.com/t5zMsx5NND — Big Bewm (@ItsBewmBoi) November 9, 2018 The billboard was […]

Lonzo Ball’s brother, LaMelo Ball, reacted to a vintage Derrick Rose game against the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday night: Old D rose back Thts a fact 💯 — Melo (@MELOD1P) November 8, 2018 LaMelo Ball made the news this week as well, as it was announced that he will be going back to high […]

Los Angeles Lakers star Lonzo Ball brother will be going back to high school for his senior season. LaMelo Ball will be playing his high school basketball at Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio. He is expected to make his debut November 13. However, he won’t be the most interesting prospect on the team. His new […]

LaMelo Ball, the younger brother of Lakers point guard Lonzo Ball, is returning to the United States for his senior year of high school. According to a report from SLAM Magazine, the 17-year-old is planning on enrolling at SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio — one of the highest-rated prep schools in the nation. Melo is […]

LaMelo Melo was ejected for getting into a physical altercation with an opponent during a JBA international game in Lithuania. Ball was looking for contact as he drove to the rim. There was no call and following his turnover, he shoved the defender closest to him. The defender proceeded to grab the back of LaMelo’s head […]

Los Angeles Lakers point guard Lonzo Ball’s brothers LaMelo and LiAngelo kicked off the Big Baller Brand-sponsored JBA USA Team world tour with a bang. The LaVar Ball-coached squad went up against the Svendborg Rabbits in Denmark on Saturday. Lonzo Ball’s two younger brothers combined for 67 points to lead their squad to a 120-118 victory […]

Despite the on and off-court antics that marred the Ball family in the past, Los Angeles Lakers young star Lonzo Ball has exceptionally kept his cool and played the issues in a mature way. But it turns out that Lonzo’s patience has already grown thin as he was caught lashing out on his brother, LaMelo […]

To raise the level of difficulty in his younger brother’s training, Lonzo Ball of the Los Angeles Lakers summoned his rottweilers to defend LaMelo Ball. Check out the video below as posted by Swish Daily to see the younger Ball dribbling against three rottweilers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeaJeQenHT4 The 17-year-old LaMelo will once again be playing for the […]

Los Angeles Lakers point guard Lonzo Ball and brothers LaMelo and LiAngelo have appeared in artist Childish Gambino’s latest video for “Feels Like Summer”. The featured video also includes animated appearances by Michelle Obama, deceased celebrities and iconic rappers. The Ball brothers feature at the 2.55 minute mark. During the clip, the Ball brothers appear […]

Led by LaVar Ball, the loud-mouthed patriarch with a gung-ho attitude an arrogant demeanor, together with his two sons, LiAngelo and LaMelo, they have taken the basketball world by storm and left a ton of destruction in the process. The Balls have quickly gained a reputation of being seemingly the most dysfunctional family in all […]

Lithuanian coach Virginijus Seskus did not hold back on ripping LaVar Ball and his two younger sons, saying that LiAngelo and LaMelo never had the skills to play in the Lithuanian league and that the team’s partnership with the Ball family was just founded on the Big Baller Brand’s financial support. Chuck Schilken of the […]

LaVar Ball’s JBA was billed as a league that could empower young basketball players. It was presented as a viable option for players who wanted to earn some money while they played instead of attending college. But apparently, the JBA wasn’t all that it was cracked up to be. According to Thomas Duffy of Cycle, […]

The youngest Ball brother has grown up in the limelight due to Lonzo and LaVar Ball. LaMelo Ball has NBA aspirations despite the fact that he’s only 17 years old, and sometimes he shows that he’s still just a kid. The Ball family purchased two golf carts for their estate so Tina Ball could get around […]

You may or may have heard of the JBA (Junior Basketball Association), a recently established pro league by LaVar Ball. Either way, it’s a league that continues to struggle putting people into seats, let alone celebrities who would find time to watch its games live. Well, the JBA attracted at least one personality to catch […]

Before today, LaMelo Ball was known for two things. The first is being the youngest sibling among the Ball brothers, mostly due to their connection to the outspoken and certainly controversial LaVar Ball. The other one is his haircut, which could be effectively summarized as the biological offspring of Ben Wallace and Elfrid Payton’s do. […]

LiAngelo Ball and LaMelo Ball played their first game together since playing in Lithuania on Thursday night and they didn’t disappoint. The two are back together playing for the Los Angeles Ballers in the Junior basketball association, a league help created by LaVar Ball. They took on the Philadelphia Ballers and both of the Ball sons […]

LiAngelo Ball has made his decision about where he wants to play his professional basketball, and it is the move that everyone should have saw coming. According to a press release by the Junior Basketball Association (JBA), LiAngelo will join the Los Angeles Ballers. The JBA is sponsored by the Big Baller Brand and LaMelo Ball […]

LiAngelo Ball was not taken in the 2018 NBA Draft despite his best efforts, but his dreams of professional basketball are far from over. According to Nicola Lupo of Sportando, LiAngelo and his brother LaMelo are receiving interest from the Russian team, Khimki Moscow. Khimki Moscow has two different teams. The top team plays in […]

One of the biggest snubs of the NBA Draft — for reasons that go beyond basketball — is that of LiAngelo Ball. However, another one of Los Angeles Lakers star Lonzo Ball’s brothers has recently gained attention after showing off his hops in a video that has been making its rounds on Twitter. In a […]

LaMelo Ball is going to play for Los Angeles – just not for the Lakers nor the Clippers, but with the Los Angeles Ballers. That’s not an NBA expansion team either, but a franchise in the nascent Junior Basketball Association. Here is a video of Ball inking his deal with the Ballers, via Overtime. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bj5WrPWBGRs/ […]

If you want a quick way to upset LaMelo Ball, brother of Los Angeles Lakers guard Lonzo Ball and son of the outspoken LaVar Ball, all you need to do is compare him with Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat character. That’s exactly what LaMelo’s former teammates in Lithuania did to him one time during the younger […]

When LaVar Ball took his kids overseas to Lithuania to play basketball, it instantly became a media hotspot and according to LaVar, that made some of the players on the team jealous of LiAngelo and LaMelo. “In Lithuania, everybody was like, ‘Melo!’ The old dudes was like, ‘We ain’t getting no love,’” LaVar recounted to […]

According to a report today from Franklyn Calle of SLAM, it was announced by Big Baller Brand founder LaVar Ball that his youngest son, guard LaMelo Ball would officially be joining the newly founded Junior Basketball Association and will play for its Los Angeles-based team this upcoming summer. LaMelo, who is still only 16 years […]

With just two games remaining in the season, LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball are leaving BC Vytautas. According to sources, this is due to injuries and not a coaching dispute as some believed it to be. As reported by Donatas Urbonas, a journalist from Lithuania: "We're not going to waste our time no more", LaVar told. […]

LaVar Ball has pulled his two sons, LiAngelo and LaMelo out of Lithuanian club Prienu Vytautas after yet another tiff with coach Virginijus Seskus, according to Lithuanian reporter Donatas Urbonis of 15min. Vytautas is fighting to avoid relegation with two games left in the season, but The Ballfather is determined to bring both of his sons […]

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 […]

LaMelo Ball’s former high school team have reached the state finals after he dissed them several months ago. Below is Ball’s tweet, mocking Chino Hills High School’s basketball team. https://twitter.com/MELOD1P/status/930184987038564352 Chino Hills got off to a bad start this season with a 4-6 record. It seemed that Ball’s prediction was about to come true. Yet […]

During the fourth quarter of Sunday night’s 127-113 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers, Los Angeles Lakers point guard Lonzo Ball missed a wide open dunk attempt in transition. In lieu of the embarrassing moment, several of Lonzo’s teammates, as well as his brother, LaMelo, chimed in with a bit of playful banter. Lonzo gathered the […]

When LaVar Ball announced in early January that he was taking two of his sons to Lithuania to play pro basketball, many thought it was just another media stunt designed to keep the Big Baller Brand in the spotlight. He had already taken LaMelo out of Chino Hills High School in October when the coach […]

LaMelo Ball, the younger brother of Lakers star Lonzo Ball, has already begun his professional basketball career in the Lithuanian league. The ball-dominant young player amazed fans and scouts with his penchant for tough shotmaking and highlight plays. In many instances, Ball would commonly travel up the court and take a difficult shot. On his […]

When LaVar Ball decided to pull out his sons, LiAngelo and LaMelo, from their respective schools and turn them to professional basketball players in Lithuania, many saw it as a huge risk for their future in the NBA, as their stocks could plummet. Their belief grew further when the two were not able to play […]

Though far away in Lithuania, LaVar Ball’s plan for Big Baller Brand world domination has already started going through the gears. The loud-mouthed father of Los Angeles Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball said his son would not be willing to re-sign with the team unless the Lakers were willing to take his two brothers, LiAngelo and […]

It was just a matter of time… Vytautas, the professional Lithuanian team LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball play for, was blown out yesterday 118-96 by Zalgiris Kaunas in a Lithuanian League game. LaVar’s sons came off the bench and did as much as they could to get the team a win. LiAngelo led the team with 25 points […]

After turning professional in Lithuania back on December 11, LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball’s contracts with Vytautas Prienu have now been guaranteed for the remainder of the season. The development was reported by Shams Charania of Yahoo! Sports, which does not come as a complete surprise with the success the two have had in their stint […]

It’s no secret how much LaVar Ball has been supportive of his sons which was seen from him since his popularity rose, prior to Lonzo Ball getting drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers. He has always spoken highly, and even at times gave some absurd downright comments just to keep the spotlight on him. However, […]

From father to businessman to professional attention-getter to head coach, LaVar Ball somehow gets everything he wants. His ascension in the basketball world has been a quick one. Now, the father of international players LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball will coach his sons and the whole professional Vytautas team from Lithuania. Through Twitter, the team announced […]