LaVar Ball loves the camera, and now he’ll always have one around to shout at. The Big Baller Brand patriarch has signed on with Facebook to create a reality show based on the exploits of his Big Baller family.
Facebook has greenlit two reality television series to play on your grandmother’s favorite social media website. Deadline reports the first is a Mike Rowe-led vehicle called Returning the Favor. While the other one doesn’t have a name just yet, but will involve LaVar Ball and his basketball family.
The second project is a yet-to-be-titled docuseries about the Ball family, whose sons Lonzo, Liangelo and LaMelo have taken the basketball world by storm. Freshman UCLA star Lonzo Ball was chosen by the Los Angeles Lakers as their No. 2 pick in the NBA Draft last month. Liangelo and LaMelo are stand-outs at Chino Hills High School.
The number and length of episodes of both series is still to be determined.
Having a camera on him at all times is likely a dream come true for LaVar Ball, who has morphed into one of the most talked-about men in basketball over the last year as Lonzo rose from college prospect to Top 5 NBA Draft pick. With that attention has come bombastic statements about his basketball aptitude and now five different pairs of very expensive shoes.
But no matter how you feel about LaVar Ball, what he’s doing is working. A reality show seems like the next logical step, really.
