Written by Ryan Glasspiegel at The Big Lead
The new LaMelo Ball mixtape is out and it’s 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/BLxSdCqwVI
— Eric Rosenthal (@ericsports) May 28, 2017
This compilation video of LaMelo Ball lowlights from Saturday’s 52-point Big Ballers drubbing at the hands of the Compton Magic has been making the rounds. It shows LaMelo taking one ill-advised shot after another, and missing them badly. It’s striking imagery for two reasons: 1) LaMelo Ball is supposed to be good, no?, and 2) his older brother Lonzo, whose play at UCLA is the primary reason the family came to prominence, is a selfless distributor.
There is a school of thought that because LaMelo Ball is just 15 years old that this video is unfit for distribution and/or criticism. However, LaMelo Ball’s place in the ongoing platform-agnostic reality show presided over by his father, LaVar Ball, makes it worthy of discussion.
When LaVar Ball told Kristine Leahy to stay in her lane a couple weeks ago, most people felt he was out of line. Nevertheless, there was a vocal group of people on social media who felt that Leahy had inappropriately questioned his parenting methods when she said that Lonzo looked “terrified” to publicly disagree with his father. (To buttress her line of thinking: LaVar himself had previously told Colin Cowherd that Lonzo would never even privately disagree with him — and if he did “then I’d say ‘then you ain’t my son,’ my son don’t talk like that.”)
When LaMelo Ball scored 92 points in a high school game in February, it was national news. LaVar Ball has used the fact that he has three sons who are superb basketball players (ignoring for the moment that the middle brother, LiAngelo, is not as highly touted as his siblings) as justification for packaging for a billion-dollar shoe deal.
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