UCLA and the Ball family appears to be over - Lavar pulled LiAngelo out of school today

[underpants]

The wild ride of the Ball family at UCLA seems to be over

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/21675931/the-ball-family-run-ucla-appears-over

Six years and three seasons of the Ball family and UCLA. That was the plan.

LaVar Ball pulled his son LiAngelo out of UCLA on Monday afternoon, less than a month after LiAngelo was one of three UCLA players arrested and indefinitely suspended for shoplifting in China. None of the three suspended players have appeared in a game yet, and there is no timetable for their return to the court.

LaMelo Ball, the youngest of the three brothers and the seventh-ranked prospect in the 2019 class by ESPN, is still committed to play at UCLA. LaVar said the plan is still for him to play for the Bruins -- but multiple sources have expressed doubt LaMelo will ever step foot on campus. There were questions regarding LaMelo's future at UCLA beginning in the summer, when he was given his own signature shoe from Big Baller Brand. Players lose their amateur status when they receive "pay in any form" for their athletic skills or when there is a promise of payment following college. If LaMelo was paid for the sneakers, he could be deemed ineligible. Those worries were compounded when LaVar pulled LaMelo out of Chino Hills High School in early October, opting to home-school his youngest son. LaVar said he was going to "make him the best basketball player ever" after pulling him out of high school.

Regardless of the next chapter for the Ball family, it seems the book has closed on its time with UCLA.

[Sanity Claws]

1. Can he do that?

Isn't LaMelo considered an adult and able to decide these things on his own?

[SHRED]

2. Daddy is paying I heard

[Sanity Claws]

3. I assumed the kid was on an athletic scholarship

with those skills.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. Isn't the semester just about over?

Pulling out a week before the end of the semester is dumb.

[underpants]

5. Good point

Yes this semester ends in 10 days.

http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/Calendars/Annual-Academic-Calendar

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. Classes end this week, finals are next.

Of course, it's possible the young man was doing so poorly in all his classes (although I sincerely hope that is not the case) that he'd have been on academic probation after this semester.

[underpants]

8. Actually he was never thought to be an NBA prospect

It's in the article.

[DinahMoeHum]

10. No loss for UCLA. They're far better without the Ball family. . .

. . .and their Kardashian influence.