Bill Plaschke: LaVar Ball has gone from icon to just a con
by Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times
Nov 22, 2017
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES_Just in time for the holidays, LaVar Ball has been good enough to advise us on the best way to obtain a pair of his company's odd $495 sneakers.
Steal them?
The father of UCLA freshman basketball player LiAngelo Ball has spent the last week telling the world his son and fellow Bruins Cody Riley and Jalen Hill didn't really do too much wrong when they were caught shoplifting in three stores during the team's recent trip to China.
They were detained, confined to the country beyond their scheduled departure, released with the help of two presidents, publicly admitted their wrongdoing and are serving an indefinite
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