Post: #76

(11-07-2017 04:49 PM)Remington Wrote:  How are you that stupid to try and steal something? Let alone in another country.

Rebelling against a strict father? Kids can be stupid.

Post: #77

If anyone has ever watched any of the Ball family youtube reality series "Ball in the Family" you'll know that 'Gelo is a little bit off. I'd wager that he's on the spectrum somewhere. It's also interesting how much different his game is than his two brothers, who are both flashy with the way they move around the court, handle and pass the ball. LiAangelo plays like a robot on "score the ball" setting.

Post: #78

The father is unappreciative of Trump freeing his son:

Trump is not happy.

Post: #79

Time to let f*ckwits college athletes who go to 3rd world dictatorships and steal (could have haggled his way down too) rot in a cell.

Post: #80

Just checked out the BBB website, they have a ton of stuff and it seems like their shoe designs have improved as well. These guys are going to make a ton of money off their brand.

Post: #81

(11-19-2017 03:01 PM)Sidney Crosby Wrote:  These guys are going to make a ton of money off their brand.

He won’t be getting any of my money.

Post: #82

(11-19-2017 12:57 PM)Roosh Wrote:  The father is unappreciative of Trump freeing his son:

Trump is not happy.

I don't know what the fuck Trump was thinking internationally white knighting for those wannabe thugs to begin with. They were clearly guilty, and no verdict had yet been announced so nobody could say China was meting out "cruel and unusual punishment" to American citizens. There are likely hundreds of incidents every day where Americans get in trouble with the law overseas, and many of them are far more deserving of intervention than these trash basketball faggots. These dudes were no national heroes, they weren't experiencing undue distress, there was absolutely nothing about their situation calling out for meddling at the head of state level. But they were in the news, so Trump decided to engage in the most blatantly obvious cheap PR ploy in the history of cheap PR ploys.

Now that Trump deservedly got left with egg on his face by that bozo Lavar, he's tweeting like a petulant child that he should have left them rot in jail to begin with. No shit dumbass, but do you really think you're making yourself look good by basically proclaiming that you used up some national "face" just so that you'd get your personal ego stroked? If those hoodlums really deserved presidential intervention to escape jail time then it shouldn't matter whether they "thank" you or not. This is some petty petty shit and it makes Trump look like a clown.

Post: #83

Definitely should have left them in China. LaVar Ball is an idiot and I could have seen this coming a mile away.

Post: #84

So Trump is admitting he released them because he thought Lavar would thank him? This makes Trump look real stupid. Lavar knows his audience. Trump could not have been any more obvious with this clumsy move.

Post: #85

To make this even worse for Trump, this is after LiAngelo and the other two already thanked Trump:

""I would like to thank President Trump and the United States government for the help that they've provided as well," LiAngelo Ball said in a press conference on Wednesday. "

https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxnews.c...s.amp.html

Trump looks like a jackass

Post: #86

(11-19-2017 05:32 PM)Repo Wrote:  To make this even worse for Trump, this is after LiAngelo and the other two already thanked Trump:

""I would like to thank President Trump and the United States government for the help that they've provided as well," LiAngelo Ball said in a press conference on Wednesday. "

https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxnews.c...s.amp.html

Trump looks like a jackass

Trump looks like an absolute dipshit in this case-while still in China the UCLA players made absolutely sure to thank Trump for their release and LiAngelo Ball was especially emphatic in his thanks to Trump. Then Trump goes and takes the bait when the elder Ball goes looking for attention with his usual behavior. Not a good look for our president...

Post: #87

Mom of Ex-Football Player Jailed in China to LaVar Ball: 'Grow Up and Be a Man'

Quote:The heartsick mother of a former star football player jailed in China has lashed out at LaVar Ball, the father of one of three UCLA basketball players just freed from the communist nation, saying Ball is an ingrate for refusing to praise President Donald Trump with helping with their release.

"My reaction is, this man must seek attention," Antoinette Brown told Bill Tucker and Nan Hayworth on Tuesday on Newsmax TV's "Newsmax Now." "He can't say our president did not play a role in helping those young men get released after clearly committing a crime in China.

"Just being thankful that the president did step up for them and release them because things could be a lot worse. They could be going through what I'm going through with my son being clearly innocent and still detained. It's just sad."

And she said she hopes Trump will now help get her son Wendell out of the Chinese jail cell where he has been languishing for 14 months.

Charged with hitting a man, Brown has now been in jail for 14 months as his mother and other family members unsuccessfully try to get him home. A lawyer has told the family China wants $100,000 in restitution to make the case go away — an amount unfathomable to them, Yahoo! Sports reports.

"Wendell did not hit anyone," Brown told Newsmax TV. "He was falsely accused . . . The accuser was truthful, and let it be known that Wendell did not hit him . . . His lawyers did an amazing job proving his innocence and still, Wendell is detained.

"But from what I'm understanding, in China, there's such a thing as save face, and the accuser is highly connected in the government.

"This is why this has not been resolved, because he felt like Wendell disrespected him in front of his group of friends by declining to take a picture with them or drink with them, and they all start throwing bottles at Wendell. He defended himself by throwing his hands up to block the multiple bottles being thrown."

So far, the State Department has been unable to get action.

"My son is a good young man," Brown said. "He was in China teaching football and English to the Asians that were on the team, and he was not there to harm anyone.

"He's a professional man, he has a degree in criminal justice. Why would he go there and be a criminal?"

She urged Trump to step in and take charge of her son's case.

"I would think the president could possibly help as far as like when he helped with the other young men," she said. "We need someone in our government to step up and stand up for Wendell."

She also addressed LaVar Ball's attitude toward Trump, saying, "That's foolish because shoplifting is a big deal, even in our own country, so I don't know why he would think that that's nothing or deserves a slap on the wrist.

"Their laws are different than the U.S. laws . . . so he needs to grow up and be a man and realize and talk to his sons about stealing because that is a crime whereever he is."

LaVar being excoriated for the ungrateful scumbag he is by a woman whose son remains in jail over bullshit Chinese charges.

Post: #88

I've never seen anything quite like this but I think I like it..... best Lavar Ball interview to say

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pRU1PBhhPd4

Post: #89

Cross posting from Trump thread:

/thread-48360...pid1686291

Quote:LaVar is an idiot. Him trying to push for street cred will backlash. Nobody going to buy his sons overpriced shoes now especially as the kid is playing some weak ball. LaVar doing this to bait the press but in his little bubble he didn't realize the ramifications of his actions.

NBA fans are overwhelming in the support for Democrats but the sizeable minority that leans right is going to drop Lonzo and the BBB brand like a rock.

POTUS damn near saved your kid from being in a cell rotting for 10 damn years and you have no damn decency to simply say thanks. Even stating that you don't like Trump's politics, but respect the gesture, would be an honest approach that people would respect, but throwing shade line that is a joke. LaVar is a clown.

Kosko does not like LaVar either.

Post: #90

Report: Los Angeles Lakers enforcing 'LaVar Ball rule' at home games

Quote:The Los Angeles Lakers apparently are eager to somehow, some way, lessen the amount of interview contact between LaVar Ball -- doting father to rookie point guard Lonzo Ball -- and the media that cover the team.

The organization have increased enforcement of a postgame policy that prohibits media members from entering an area at the arena reserved for players’ family and friends. According to Chris Haynes, who cover the Lakers for ESPN.com, the team is stiffening “what many employees at Staples Center view as ‘the LaVar Ball rule.’ ”
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Post: #91

Here's the latest in the Ball saga:

- LaVar pulled his 16-year-old son out of high school to "home school" him and "better prepare him for the NBA"
- LaVar pulled his 19-year-old son out of UCLA because they had the audacity to suspend him for his shoplifting in China incident
- Both sons have now signed with a Lithuanian pro team
- The Lakers met with LaVar to tell him to tone down his constant criticisms of the organizations and coaches
- LiAngelo (19-year-old) now claims he only thanked Trump because UCLA made him

I was on the fence about LaVar for a while, but his latest series of erratic and puzzling decisions combined with he and his sons' total inability to accept responsibility for their decisions seem to prove that this is more about out-of-control ego and opportunism than it is about simply getting this best for his children.

Keep in mind that LiAngelo isn't even considered a pro prospect, yet he just gave up a scholarship to UCLA to live in a small town in Lithuania. Meanwhile Lonzo is shooting a historically bad percentage in the NBA and less than 50% from the line, which is unheard of for a point guard, and it has a lot to do with his very, very bad shooting form.

The youngest boy will now have no choice but to remain overseas, since his shoe deal likely killed his college eligibility and the deal with the Lithuanian club cemented that fact. Yet he likely would have been a lock to be drafted out of UCLA in a few years.

Post: #92

(12-14-2017 01:37 AM)Enigma Wrote:  Here's the latest in the Ball saga:

- LaVar pulled his 16-year-old son out of high school to "home school" him and "better prepare him for the NBA"
- LaVar pulled his 19-year-old son out of UCLA because they had the audacity to suspend him for his shoplifting in China incident
- Both sons have now signed with a Lithuanian pro team
- The Lakers met with LaVar to tell him to tone down his constant criticisms of the organizations and coaches
- LiAngelo (19-year-old) now claims he only thanked Trump because UCLA made him

I was on the fence about LaVar for a while, but his latest series of erratic and puzzling decisions combined with he and his sons' total inability to accept responsibility for their decisions seem to prove that this is more about out-of-control ego and opportunism than it is about simply getting this best for his children.

Keep in mind that LiAngelo isn't even considered a pro prospect, yet he just gave up a scholarship to UCLA to live in a small town in Lithuania. Meanwhile Lonzo is shooting a historically bad percentage in the NBA and less than 50% from the line, which is unheard of for a point guard, and it has a lot to do with his very, very bad shooting form.

The youngest boy will now have no choice but to remain overseas, since his shoe deal likely killed his college eligibility and the deal with the Lithuanian club cemented that fact. Yet he likely would have been a lock to be drafted out of UCLA in a few years.

That is puzzling, to say the least. The youngest might end up having the highest upside of any of them, and he basically gave up his college eligibility to sell shoes? And he is being home schooled by his dad, or tutors, or something? Even if it turns out he has game like Lebron James, he will probably melt down, get arrested for stupid shit and follow in Liangelo's shoes by trying to rebel against his dad. Instead of being an allstar, he will end up burned out before the age of 20.

Post: #93

^ I have no idea how the homeschooling is going to work while he's in Lithuania. That announcement was before all of the China drama.

Based on scouts' opinions of LiAngelo, I'm assuming LaMelo is only going to Lithuania because his brother couldn't get a legit offer without LaMelo being part of the package (which was also the case with UCLA) -- and the fact that LaVar had burned his bridges both with UCLA and the college eligibility in general.

In other words, LaMelo is paying dearly for his father and brother's mistakes. I don't see how anyone can possibly spin that as good parenting.

Post: #94

(12-14-2017 01:37 AM)Enigma Wrote:  Here's the latest in the Ball saga:

- LaVar pulled his 16-year-old son out of high school to "home school" him and "better prepare him for the NBA"
- LaVar pulled his 19-year-old son out of UCLA because they had the audacity to suspend him for his shoplifting in China incident
- Both sons have now signed with a Lithuanian pro team
- The Lakers met with LaVar to tell him to tone down his constant criticisms of the organizations and coaches
- LiAngelo (19-year-old) now claims he only thanked Trump because UCLA made him

I was on the fence about LaVar for a while, but his latest series of erratic and puzzling decisions combined with he and his sons' total inability to accept responsibility for their decisions seem to prove that this is more about out-of-control ego and opportunism than it is about simply getting this best for his children.

Keep in mind that LiAngelo isn't even considered a pro prospect, yet he just gave up a scholarship to UCLA to live in a small town in Lithuania. Meanwhile Lonzo is shooting a historically bad percentage in the NBA and less than 50% from the line, which is unheard of for a point guard, and it has a lot to do with his very, very bad shooting form.

The youngest boy will now have no choice but to remain overseas, since his shoe deal likely killed his college eligibility and the deal with the Lithuanian club cemented that fact. Yet he likely would have been a lock to be drafted out of UCLA in a few years.

LaVar reminds me of the delusional and entitleded Willy Loman of Death of a Salesman.

Post: #95

(12-14-2017 02:26 AM)Enigma Wrote:  ^ I have no idea how the homeschooling is going to work while he's in Lithuania. That announcement was before all of the China drama.

Based on scouts' opinions of LiAngelo, I'm assuming LaMelo is only going to Lithuania because his brother couldn't get a legit offer without LaMelo being part of the package (which was also the case with UCLA) -- and the fact that LaVar had burned his bridges both with UCLA and the college eligibility in general.

In other words, LaMelo is paying dearly for his father and brother's mistakes. I don't see how anyone can possibly spin that as good parenting.

I'm just wondering how LaMelo will be home schooled in Lithuania. Don't think his Mom or Lavar will be staying there year round.

I'm going to assume LaMelo is total fucked because he is now a high school drop out.

Lavar went full retard with his decision to pull LiAngelo from school and make LaMelo a drop out.

Why not have LiAngelo transfer to a different school? Why not home school LaMelo until he graduates?

I have so many questions.

Post: #96

Should’ve kept LA at UCLA. Rumor has it they would have reinstated him after the holiday. Seems reasonable after breaking the law and causing that much of a headache.

Those Lithuanians are gonna be gunning for them. They take basketball seriously up there.

Post: #97

Post: #98

So the youngest son is a high school senior but is now going to play ball in Lithuania? How do those leagues compared to NCAA?

Post: #99

They're different. NCAA has some teams with higher end talent than you see in Europe but they're still mostly 18-21 yr olds.

Euro leagues are stacked with full grown men who know the tricks of the trade. Lithuanian league isn't that great, it's not the French, Spanish or Serbian leagues which are generally pretty good.

The youngest son physically just can't compete in Lithuania. Never mind the culture shock, a tiny Lithuanian villages where practically nobody, even the coach, speaks English.

Post: #100

I was going to say "this has to be the dumbest father of the year", but he did make millions on the shoes contract already.