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A couple of years ago, out in California, a television man with a passion for basketball named Provat Gupta Dubois was in the stands of a gym watching a summer team he sponsors when he ran into an unfamiliar opponent with a unique star.
This was a 17-and-under event, you see.
So the unusually small shooter dropping 3-pointers stood out.
"There was this little kid just shooting from everywhere ... and then I found out he was only 11 years old!" Dubois said. "I immediately said, 'I have to meet this kid.' He got my team for 30 points. So I went and met him. And then I found out there are actually
three of them!"
Yes, there are
three of them.
Lonzo Ball is the oldest of the brothers -- a high school senior already committed to
UCLA. Then there's LiAngelo Ball -- a high school junior also already committed to UCLA. And then there's LaMelo Ball -- the kid who put 30 on Dubois' team two summers ago.
LaMelo -- simply
Melo, for short -- is now 13.
He's a few weeks from starting his freshman year of high school.
Some say he just might be the most gifted basketball player in the family.
And when you combine that with the fact that these Ball kids all play for the same team -- a team appropriately named
Big Ballers VXT -- that is coached by their parents (LaVar and Tina Ball), affiliated with no shoe company and operating completely outside of the normal hustle-and-bustle of summer basketball, what you get is a story where blood is indeed thicker than water and everything else on the so-called AAU circuit.
why not just L'Angelo?
