LaMelo Ball is the youngest Big Baller, but some of his basketball “highlight” reels have already created their fair share of publicity in the hoops world for all the wrong reasons. At this point, LaMelo is best known for taking pull-up jumpers from half-court, cherry-picking his way to 92 points, and ball-hogging in a way that puts other ball hoggers to shame.
It’s not all bad. LaMelo Ball is only 16 years old, and he has his own signature shoe on the way. He also appeared on an episode of WWE Raw this summer, and he’s already committed his college hoops career to UCLA. Despite the theatrics, I can respect his hustle.
Ball’s latest viral highlight might be his best one yet. As you can see in the footage below, Ball is the recipient of a nice outlet pass resulting in a truly disrespectful poster dunk and stare-down.
This really is a perfect video. From the dunk to the staredown, to the over-the-top reaction, it’s almost too perfect. Allow me to explain.
I put my investigative journalist hat on and did a little digging. It appears as though Ball dunked on some YouTuber named JesserTheLazer. The YouTube upload description reads “Lamelo Ball plays pick up basketball versus youtube stars CashNasty, Kristopher London, JesserTheLazer, 50Kal Mal, Los. LaMelo Ball was having a dunkfest!” Red flags galore.
I’m not a YouTube expert, but “Person Does Thing To YouTuber” gives me the this was staged vibes 100 times out of 100. You’ve been warned. If this footage pops up on the Ball family’s Facebook reality show Ball In The Family, then I’m taking that as confirmation that something fishy is going on here. And if I’m wrong, and LaMelo Ball did disrespect JesserTheLazer in a totally natural setting, then I’ll go ahead and cop a pair of his new kicks. Fair?
