LaVar Ball is the co-founder and chief executive officer of the sports apparel company Big Baller Brand. He is the father of three basketball players: New Orleans Pelicans point guard Lonzo, Detroit Pistons shooting guard LiAngelo and Charlotte Hornets point guard, LaMelo. Ball played basketball and American football while at Canoga Park High School. He had a brief professional career as a tight end with the London Monarchs.
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LaVar Ball is the co-founder and chief executive officer of the sports apparel company Big Baller Brand. He is the father of three basketball players: New Orleans Pelicans point guard Lonzo, Detroit Pistons shooting guard LiAngelo and Charlotte Hornets point guard, LaMelo. Ball played basketball and American football while at Canoga Park High School. He played basketball at the collegiate level for West Los Angeles College, Washington State and Cal State Los Angeles. He also played football at Long Beach City College for a season. He had a brief professional career as a tight end with the London Monarchs of the World League of American Football, where he had a total of 28 kickoff return yards, and no receptions. He was a practice squad member of the New York Jets and Carolina Panthers in 1995, but never played an official regular season game in the National Football League. He has also been in the spotlight for his criticism of his sons’ teams, most notably the Lakers for their treatment of Lonzo and for his exchange with U.S. President Donald Trump after LiAngelo was detained in China for shoplifting. In July 2015, Ball and his sons made national sports headlines when Gary Parrish of SLAM magazine featured them in an article. In March 2016, he first began displaying his confident personality to the public, saying that his son Lonzo is better than Stephen Curry and claiming that he himself could defeat Michael Jordan one-on-one in basketball.
In the end of the year, he would begin to use the media platform that he would use at the start of 2016 to give him increasingly more public attention. Ball has made several appearances on national TV and has routinely drawn attention from major sports media outlets. He rose to national prominence through a series of comments he made about his sons in an interview with CBS Sports Subps in August 2016. In a March 2016 interview with MaxPreps, he described Lonzo as being like Magic Johnson, with a jumper with a “Magic jumper” He has four brothers, named LaFrance, LaValle, LaRenzo, and LaShon, as well as two sisters. His favorite basketball player when growing up at the time was Charles Barkley. He is considered the middle child of his family and is considered to be a good friend of the late Michael Jordan. He would originally be a personal trainer in California in the 1990s, but changed his career to become a sports agent. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three sons. He and his wife have a daughter, LZ, and a son, LiAngelo, who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers and the LA Clippers. The couple also have a son named Lonzo Ball, who is a point guard for the New Orleans Pelicans and the LA Lakers practice team, the L.A. Lakers D-2. Ball is also the founder and CEO of the Junior Basketball Association, a professional basketball league for high school and JBA hopefuls.
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