Table of Biography
LiAngelo Ball is an American professional basketball player from the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL). LiAngelo Ball is a shooting guard who is a naturally gifted player.
Early Life and Childhood
LiAngelo Ball was born on November 24, 1998, in Anaheim, California, USA. He is 22 years old, and his birth sign is Sagittarius. His father is Lavar Ball and his mother is Tina Ball, both of them were professional basketball players. He has two brothers, Lonzo and LaMelo.
More precisely, Ball’s father is a former basketball player. He played for the Washington State of the NCAA Division I, West Los Angeles College, and Cal State Los Angeles. Further, as a former footballer, LaVar later joined the London Monarchs of the World League of American Football (WLAF) on loan from the New York Jets. Moreover, Ball’s mother also used to be a basketball player at California State University, Los Angeles during her youth.
Since his childhood, he played basketball against older opponents. As a kindergartener, he took on groups from the fourth and fifth grades. He was already maintaining a fitness regime at four and six, he started playing with his two brothers, Lonzo and LaMelo.
The Ball brothers also participated in flag football in which Lonzo played the quarterback while he and LaMelo were the receivers. His father, Lavar founded an Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) under-17 team named Big Ballers VTX, where he and his wife coached. He and his brothers grew up raised as members of this team.
Caption: LiAngelo Ball and his family- get a new reality show
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Education
He attended Chino Hills High School and joined their football program in the 2013-14 season. Ball and Lonzo led Chino Hills to their first-ever look within the CIF Southern Section Open Division Championship. He committed to playing faculty basketball with the UCLA Bruins. But unfortunately, he got suspended indefinitely with two other teammates. This happened after they were arrested in China for shoplifting. At the time On December 4, he announced that he planned to withdraw from UCLA.
Ball signed a letter of resolute on November 2, 2016, and eventually registered at the University of California, Los Angeles on June 1, 2017. He played his only game with the Bruins in the preseason on November 1, 2017, against the NCAA Division II team Cal State Los Angeles.
Career and Professional Life
Talking about his professional life, he began playing officially for his college team under the leadership of coach Steve Baik. LiAngelo began his freshman year as part of the starting line-up alongside his brother, Lonzo. Lonzo was a sophomore at the time. Furthermore, he had a good season as he scored 13 points, with six in the second quarter, in one match, and registered 24 points in another. The Ball brothers received media attention while the Los Angeles Times called them “quite a duo”.
He and Lonzo led Chino Hills to their first-ever appearance in the CIF Southern Section Open Division championship game. In the game, he scored 14 points in a losing effort against Mater Dei High School. Chino Hills’ last match of the season was against Centennial High School. He registered 10 points and his team lost the game in overtime.
Although Ball hadn’t thought about an opportunity at the time for the National Basketball Association (NBA), he planned on preparing for the 2018 NBA draft. On December 11, 2019, he signed with BC Prienai of the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL).
In his professional debut in the 2017-18 season, he failed to score, shooting 0-of-3 from the field in limited playing time as his team fell to Lietkabelis Panevezys. On February 4, he scored 25 points, with 6 three-pointers.
After 2017…
On March 27, 2018, he announced, that he would enter the 2018 NBA draft, even though most analysts believed that he was a long shot to be selected. In an exhibition game later in the day, he erupted for seventy-two points and eleven rebounds against a youth squad for the Chinese club Guangdong Southern Tigers.
On April 19, Ball lacerated his ankle and left early versus Juventus Utena. On April 25, it declared that each Ball and his brother were going Prienai, with their father displaying bitterness towards the team’s head coach Virginijus Seskus.
On July 9, 2018, Ball signed with the Los Angeles Ballers of the Junior Basketball Association, a league based by his father as an alternative to varsity college basketball. He was named to the West roster for the JBA All-Star game and was named co-MVP player of the sport once rating thirty-nine points.
At the end of the season, he was among 14 players in the league named to the JBA USA Team, which faced several European teams on an international tour.
Caption: LiAngelo Ball on attending the Professional Basketball Combine.
source: HoopsHype
Shoplifting in China
While he had significant success at Chino Hills, Ball was generally regarded as an unheralded prospect and received a rating of three stars in high school. He eventually signed a letter of intent with UCLA Bruins on November 2, 2016. He did it as he verbally committed to them in his junior year. Likewise, He made his debut for the team exactly a year later, on November 1, 2017. His debut game was against the NCAA Division II team Cal State Los Angeles, in a preseason match.
His time with UCLA Bruins was cut short after his apprehension in China for shoplifting on November 7, 2017. This incident also involved two teammates. The trio was facing a potential fine and up to ten years in prison, and thus they were eventually brought back to the US after the American government stepped in. The White House Chief of Staff, John F. Kelly, stated that it was due to the efforts of President Donald Trump and the United States Department of State that he and the others could return to the US.
Involvement of Trump
Meanwhile, Donald Trump asked the trio to thank him for getting them out of China. He later held a press conference where he admitted that he had indeed shoplifted in China and thanked Donald Trump for bringing him back home, back to the U.S. However, people later found out that the trio had committed another theft only 90 minutes after the first incident. They were also bailed out before the public came to know of the incident. Additionally, the charges against the three were dropped even before Trump and Kelly got involved.
Following the incident, his club UCLA suspended him indefinitely and he ultimately decided to withdraw from the program. At the time, he did not consider an NBA prospect. Later, on 11 December 2017, both Ball and his brother LaMelo were recruited by BC Prienai.
Oklahoma City Blue (2020–present)
On December 29, 2019, he signed a contract with the Oklahoma City Blue of the NBA G League as a practice player. Likewise, on March 9, 2020, he signed with the Blue by waiver claim.
Awards and Nominations
In his sophomore year, LiAngelo Ball and his brother shared the Most Valuable Player accolade at a tournament at Fairfax High School. In 2015, he won the City of Palms Classic All-Tournament honors. Similarly, Ball also received the MaxPreps second-team all-state and Inland Valley Daily Bulletin first-team All-Area accolades.
Relationship Status
LiAngelo Ball is probably single. Initially, he started dating Isabella Morris (Izzy) in 2018. When he attended his junior year of high school at the time, they shared an on-and-off relationship on the Instagram model. Sadly, he revealed that they both had officially ended their relationship in October 2018. He is currently dating, Jaden.
Moreover, during a press conference in January 2018, a Lithuanian reporter asked him out, to which he sheepishly replied, “No comment.”
Caption: LiAngelo Ball and Jaden Owens’s Instagram post on 18 February
source: Deskgram
Scandal
In June 2018, some reported his girlfriend Izzy got pregnant with his child. But the news was fake and nothing more. In the same month of he and Izzy’s separation, a Vegas bottle host transgender woman named Marina Fuentes claimed she and LiAngelo Ball had a sexual encounter. She even threatened to release a sex tape of them but no tape was ever released.
Body Measurements
LiAngelo Ball is 6 feet 5 inches tall and his weight is 230 kg. Dark Brown is his eye color and Black is his hair color.
Liangelo Ball – Net Worth 2023
LiAngelo Ball receives a monthly income of $125,000. However, he hasn’t shared any clear information about his net worth and earnings as of now.
Social Media
LiAngelo Ball is available on his Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. However, he has 312K followers on his Twitter, 2.4 million on his Instagram, and more than 381K on his Facebook.