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LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball Made Their Pro Debut and It Was Definitely Basketball

Miercoles 10 de Enero del 2018

LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball Made Their Pro Debut and It Was Definitely Basketball

The Ball boys made their Lithuanian basketball debut. Here's what you need to know.

The Ball boys made their Lithuanian basketball debut. Here's what you need to know.

LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball Made Their Pro Debut and It Was Definitely Basketball

Vytautas Prienai v Zalgiris Kauno
Alius Koroliovas

The Ball boys made their Lithuanian basketball debut. Here's what you need to know.

If you're anything like me, then you're constantly trying to stay up on what's happening in Lithuanian basketball. I mean sure, it's one thing to follow all the big games. I mean sure, we all spend our time watching BC Žalgiris. But the other teams? The ones who aren't winning the LKL championship every year? It's tough to stay up to date. But that's why I'm here to help you. Yesterday, Vytautas finally got to debut their two new stars: LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball.

The guys played in a "game" that was part of a "series" called the "Big Baller Brand Challenge." I use quotes because it was less a game and more a scrimmage between the Vytautas squad and a team that looked like it was made up of children. And by children, I mean ones that looked even younger than the Ball boys.

That's because the Ball boys were playing against Lithuanian powerhouse Žalgiris' junior team. And considering they were playing against other 16 and 17 year olds, the Balls looked... Fine. LaMelo had 10 points and nine assists and LiAngelo ended up with 19 with Vytautas winning 90-80.

The big takeaway? The whole thing was a joke. I mean it was technically a professional basketball game, but in reality? It was little more than a stacked high school basketball game where the Ball boys had 20-somethings on their team and the other team was all kids. On top of that, it was a massive branding operation for LaVar, who slapped the BBB logo on everything including the refs. But was there anything we could learn about LaMelo and LiAngelo?

LaMelo flashed the court vision that has him being considered one of the top prospects in his high school class, but he paired it with spotty shooting and spottier shot choice. LiAngelo meanwhile made some threes and looked okay, but again he was playing against younger kids. We're still left with a lot of uncertainty about how this great experiment will work out. But LaVar Ball's circus—which had well over 100,000 tuning in at one point on Facebook—is just getting started.

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