Posted on 11/19/2017 10:09:46 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
LaVar Ball, patriarch of the famed basketball family, has denied that President Donald Trump helped his son, UCLA freshman basketballer LiAngelo Ball, get out of potential shoplifting charges in China.
Speaking to ESPN, LaVar Ball said “everyone” wanted to make it seem like Trump helped the family, and noted that people try to “make a big deal out of nothing.”
Ball’s basketball family has a reality show, Ball in the Family, that airs on Facebook, and his brash style is regularly parodied by Kenan Thompson on Saturday Night Live. The family includes Los Angeles Lakers point guard Lonzo Ball; UCLA frosh LiAngelo; and high school basketball sensation LaMelo Ball, who is already committed to UCLA.
UCLA basketball team members LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hall were caught shoplifting during UCLA’s trip to China to play a game against Georgia Tech. They were confined to the team hotel while authorities investigated the incident and pondered formal charges. All three players returned to the States this week and are indefinitely suspended by the program.
At a press conference following their return, they thanked Trump for his part in freeing them after the President asked them for kudos via his Twitter account.
But LaVar Ball isn’t buying Trump’s intervention with China President Xi Jinping.
“Who?” Ball said to ESPN. “What was (Trump) over there for? Don’t tell me nothing. Everybody wants to make it seem like he helped me out.”
Trump boasted via Twitter that the players were facing 10 years in prison before he spoke with Xi Jinping. LaVar Ball previously downplayed the charges, saying it “ain’t that big of a deal.”
“As long as my boy’s back here, I’m fine,” Ball told ESPN. “I’m happy with how things were handled. A lot of people like to say a lot of things that they thought happened over there. Like I told him, ‘They try to make a big deal out of nothing sometimes.’ I’m from L.A. I’ve seen a lot worse things happen than a guy taking some glasses. My son has built up enough character that one bad decision doesn’t define him. Now if you can go back and say when he was 12 years old he was shoplifting and stealing cars and going wild, then that’s a different thing.
“Everybody gets stuck on the negativity of some things and they get stuck on them too long. That’s not me. I handle what’s going on and then we go from there.”
ESPN reported that there was surveillance footage of Ball, Hill and Riley shoplifting from three stores inside a retail center near the team hotel in Hangzhou, China. Sources previously told ESPN that the situation was likely to be resolved in several weeks, but Trump was visiting China and claimed to have brought the matter up with Xi Jinping. Days later, the players were freed.
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Kim Jung Un got him off.
Well, he has to show his anti-Trump bonifides to be applauded in the Black community.
“I’m from L.A. I’ve seen a lot worse things happen than a guy taking some glasses”
Stealing the glasses is all they got caught at... so far.Doesnt count all the other crap they’ve done but gotten away with.
This douche’ has no idea what the Han Chinese think of blacks!
The ingratitude is no surprise. Matthew 7:6 comes to mind.
“So nice to see this gratitude. /s”
And the gratitude for 700,000 lives lost in the Civil War.
it was only a matter of time before his son was released before this POS opened his pie-hole..
“I agree, Trump should have left all 3 of them there. We have no use or need for them here.”
There’s millions more in the ghettos to backfill.
I’d tell you what the Koreans used to say but I’d be banned.
I’m sick of them already — and his oldest kid just started in the NBA.
It’s sort of a rule of thumb here and also fairly obvious, when you keep posting to someone and they don’t immediately reply - they are probably away from the computer or don’t want to reply.
“I’ve got a great idea for a reality show. Lets let their whole family go to any Asian country and try to spend a whole year without going to jail.”
Start in Singapore. I understand they have some very nice canes there.
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Huh? This makes sense?
It’s my opinion that this not a case of “see no evil”. This is a case of anti-white, TDR. Daddy Ball is still torqued over Hilliary getting her butt kicked by Trump. Old Man Ball’s heart burns with hatred for Trump. Eternity awaits.
Daddy is thinking of his clientele, not exactly a lot of Republicans in that bunch.
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