The arrest of LiAngelo Ball seems like it happened a million years ago, doesn’t it? For those who were in a place without the internet for basically the entire end of 2017, Ball and two teammates with UCLA basketball were arrested in China for shoplifting.
It lead to a long saga that ended with his father, LaVar, feuding with the President of the United States and LiAngelo signing a professional basketball contract in Lithuania alongside his youngest brother, LaMelo.
Thanks to the Ball family’s show on Facebook, Ball in the Family, we got a glimpse into what happened when LaVar confronted LiAngelo for his transgression. It features LaVar and his business partner grilling his son and LiAngelo, essentially, sitting there like a teenager who is coming to grips with the fact that he might be in legal trouble.
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This clip is fascinating because LaVar seems like he simultaneously mixes being angry with the whole “I’m not mad, I’m disappointed” thing. Things have generally worked out for the Ball family since this went down — well, at least things that don’t have anything to do with the Better Business Bureau — but at the time, the family was expecting the worst with their middle son’s legal troubles.
