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So far, LaVar Ball has been on a real roll. He's gotten an enormous amount of celebrity out of his sons, gotten his own reality show and worldwide press coverage. His eldest with the Lakers is having rookie struggles, but he's also shown he can play point guard in the NBA.

The middle kid (the one who stole in China) is not NBA material by all reports, or even good enough for top-level European franchises. He might have developed into an NBA player by staying at UCLA for a few years, but his father blew that up.

The youngest kid is 16 years old and quite talented by all accounts - normally, he'd finish high school, attend college for one year and be taken in the first round of the NBA draft, but again - his father has taken him out of high school, and made him ineligible for the NCAA by marketing shoes under his name and hiring him an agent. European teams aren't interested in 16 year old kid with a lot to learn, no matter how talented. How is this kid going to get playing time or grow into NBA quality with nowhere to play?

Bombast and talented sons got LaVar Ball quite a long way - but the bombast may finally be working against him and his sons. At some point, these kids are going to have to tell their father to shut up and run their own lives.

Euro basketball is much more regimented than here. More team oriented and less about the stars. They practice a lot on fundamentals, etc. Ball’s act isn’t going to fly over there. The young kid is talented and can find a spot in a place like the 2nd division in Spain. But he’ll have to work his butt off and daddy will have mind his own business. Good luck with that.