LaMelo And LiAngelo Ball Reportedly Sign 1-Year Deals With A Lithuanian Professional Basketball Team
Yahoo- LaMelo and LiAngelo Ball have turned pro, agreeing to one-year contracts with Vytautas Prienai in the first-division Lithuanian league, sources told Yahoo Sports.
LaMelo, 16, and LiAngelo Ball, 19, agreed to deals with Vytautas that will allow the two prospects to start their careers in a competitive professional league with a history of producing NBA players and focus on development. Both will report to the team in early January, sources told Yahoo Sports. LaMelo and LiAngelo — the younger brothers of Los Angeles Lakers starting point guard Lonzo Ball — began the process of exploring international deals last week.
The Big Baller Brand is officially worldwide! The Triple B’s now ring out from Lithuania to Los Angeles. The Mediterranean to Santa Monica. The Baltic to Brentwood. LaVar saw that Lonzo had the U.S. on lock, so he sent his two youngest to conquer the overseas markets. As someone that spent some time in Latvia, I know just how important the Baltics are. Lithuania is the sweet spot with reach both in Europe and Asia. Name a country that can influence those two fertile basketball markets better than Lithuania. You can’t. LaVar has apparently now moved on to conquering continents.
And anyone chirping that this is an L for the Ball family clearly doesn’t know their basketball history. Lithuania was the coolest basketball country on the planet this side of the Dream Team back in 1992 with their tie dyed shirts. Now it’s 2017 and time for Lithuania to rise back to the forefront of the hoops scene behind two Big Ballers. And if LaVar wants to cash in on this cultural movement, he better open his wallet.
Oh and you KNOW LaVar didn’t send his two youngest boys halfway across the world to play with some shitty Euro team with a bunch of scrubs, right?
They have now committed to a Lithuanian team that won a championship last season and plays in competitive games in the Baltic and Lithuanian leagues, which includes teams that participate in EuroCup (Lietkabelis) and EuroLeague (Zalgiris)
It is…
*Opens up Google translate*
SUPER KOMANDA TIME!!!
Now we just sit back, relax, and watch the Ball brothers play hoops, win rings, and getting paid while doing so. Nobody in the NCAA will be getting a Ball brother’s hard work for the price of tuition, books, and room & board. That’s not how Big Ballers roll. And before people start sending their Ts and Ps to Melo’s and Gelo’s next coach, it turns out this may be a better fit than people realize.
This is either going to be a match made in heaven or a match made in hell. To be honest, I don’t even care which one it is because either way we are getting #content gold during games that I imagine are played during the morning or afternoon in America. Nothing beats random sports during the day.
And while I would love to go Lithuania in the name of Barstool, lets just say that one trip to the Baltic was probably enough for the time being. Especially with the political climate the way it is with Lithuania’s red neighbors. Donnie can have this one as the Barstool’s international BBB representative. I’ll blog about Lonzo if he does anything crazy against the Knicks tomorrow night from the Casa de Clem instead.