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LaVar Ball and his family has once again made a lot of headlines recently, after Big Baller Brand made LaMelo Ball the first high school basketball player to have his own signature shoe. The move has been very controversial, and even jeopardized his future with UCLA, as he may not be allowed to play in […]

The Los Angeles Lakers’ new point guard, Lonzo Ball, turned heads earlier in the year when he released his own signature shoe under his family’s Big Baller Brand. However, the Ball family was not done shaking up the sneaker industry as they recently announced a signature for Lonzo’s youngest brother, LaMelo Ball. LaMelo’s shoe, the […]

Given all the controversial and even absurd comments LaVar Ball has made over the past months, it doesn’t come as a shock that he and his family have been the subject of a lot of troll and hate messages, especially on social media. A lot of tirades have been directed at their excessive display of […]

Earlier this week, it was announced that LaVar Ball and his family would be the focus of a first-of-a-kind docu-series on Facebook’s Watch called, Ball in the Family. This series will follow LaVar and the Ball family through their everyday lives as they try to build the Big Baller Brand and watch Lonzo Ball begin […]

It has been a wild and entertaining offseason for the NBA as blockbuster trades and free agent signings made it hard for fans to stay off social media. The Ball family, namely Lavar Ball, dominated the news cycle for most of the summer and there are no signs of them slowing down. Lonzo Ball has […]

LaVar Ball got his own reality show green-lit by Facebook last month. Last week, Variety reported that the series titled, “Ball in the Family“, will be one of a handful of shows funded by the social media giant for their Facebook Watch platform. “Ball in the Family” is one part of an effort to kick-start […]

LaVar Ball earned his AAU team, the Big Ballers, yet another “L” in the column after refusing to leave the court following his second technical foul of the game, according to Jason Scheer of WildcatAuthority.com This is now the second forfeit of this month during the AAU circuit after LaVar chose to pull his team […]

LaVar Ball once again channeled his inner Vince MacMahon by taking over the show, this time getting a female referee replaced mid-game after she assessed him a technical foul. The outspoken father of Los Angeles Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball was at the Adidas Uprising AAU game, coaching his son LaMelo, who put up a game-high […]

The hype for Wednesday night’s showdown between top-ranked junior point guard LaMelo Ball and second-ranked senior high schooler Zion Williamson was the biggest since the LeBron James high school era, packing a sold-out Cashman Center in Las Vegas and leaving thousands of people at the door after surpassing full capacity, in efforts to avoid a fire […]

LaVar Ball had Big Baller aspirations for his son LaMelo Ball, expecting him to score between 40 and 50 points against No. 2 high school senior prospect Zion Williamson and his AAU team SC Supreme. “I don’t know man, 40? 50?,” Ball told Overtime about a potentially epic night for his son. “He just gonna […]

The LaVar Ball show didn’t just enhance the spectacle that the Adidas Uprising Summer Championship game was bound to be, but integrated with it, making it a jam-packed, fan-frenzied even unlike the AAU circuit had seen in more than a decade. The game seated roughly 4,000 people, with another 1,500 waiting outside as local police had […]

Two of the best high school prospects in the country in LaMelo Ball and Zion Williamson finally went head-to-head in a jam-packed, nearly-cancelled Adidas Uprising Summer Championship game, providing plenty of highlights to go with the hype. The likes of Damian Lillard, Andrew Wiggins, Thon Maker, and Jamal Murray were present at the event, along […]

One of the hottest attractions of the high school circuit this summer was the long-awaited head-to-head matchup between Big Ballers’ LaMelo Ball and SC Supreme’s Zion Williamson, two of the most notable high school prospects, both heavily recruited by schools around the nation. The gym was in fact so full of avid fans, that local […]

Another week in the NBA offseason wouldn’t be complete without the Ball family in the news. And boy, does good ol’ LaVar have another doozy of a hot take for basketball fans to gush over. Overtime recently shared a clip of the elder Ball being asked whether or not he and and his youngest son, […]

Big human being and NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal has been away from the game since 2011, but that’s not hampering him from grabbing headlines. Always with a gregarious personality, O’Neal never fails to entertain his fans with his antics and jokes — sometimes at the expense of other people. This time, it’s LaVar Ball and his […]

The word “surrender” is quite the taboo term in the sport of basketball. Nobody wants to be criticized for giving up on any situation, and yet that’s exactly what LaVar Ball did. Ball, whose son LaMelo is the star player of his Big Ballers AAU squad, decided to forfeit from a crucial playoff game this past weekend despite his son’s […]

When news hit that Kyrie Irving wanted out of Cleveland, the NBA world was shocked. This requested trade has a lot of immediate implications on the entire NBA landscape. Primarily, it has implications on the future of LeBron James. James has an issue with the Cavaliers front office. The Cavs lost the 2017 NBA Finals and […]

Following the controversial release of Lonzo Ball’s first signature shoe, the ZO2’s, Big Baller Brand is already preparing for their next big move. The shoe manufacturers, owned by the Ball family, will also reportedly release kicks for the youngest of the brothers, LaMelo Ball, and have already filed a a trademark for its name, according […]

Throughout the past few months, LaVar Ball has not been shy of showing everyone what he’ll do for his sons. Despite the outrage he received for the absurd comments he made before, he’s still successful in getting a lot of attention to his family, and even got what he wanted when Lonzo Ball was drafted […]

With the Los Angeles Lakers selecting UCLA standout Lonzo Ball with the second overall pick at the 2017 NBA Draft, the entire Ball family is having quite a ball (pun intended) with their newfound popularity. It also doesn’t hurt that the man of the house, LaVar, has gotten so much attention from the media himself […]

Facebook is currently going all out in coming up with original content for their online video streaming service. Now, the largest social media platform in the world is counting on a family that arguably has the largest ego in the sporting world to be featured in one of its exclusives that could hopefully contend with the critically-acclaimed shows being produced by […]

LaVar Ball‘s overbearing nature isn’t just limited to television and radio airwaves, but has also translated into the very hardwood where two of his sons play — Chino Hills High School. The Ball family’s spotlight started with a storied 2015-16 season where former UCLA standout and expected lottery pick Lonzo Ball won the Naismith National Player […]