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IT’S NOT HARD to find the Ball Family Estate in Chino Hills.
Forget checking for address numbers—the first thing you’ll see is the giant Big Baller Brand logo fixated above the towering front doors.
If you somehow miss that, no worries, the castle’s king wastes no time welcoming his guests. There’s no need to ring the doorbell—LaVar Ball struts onto the driveway with his arms stretched wide, voice booming throughout the luscious green hills.
He knows how to host.
“This is the purest water in the world!” LaVar says, as he pulls out a Lithuanian-imported Big Baller Brand water bottle. “It’ll make your chest bigger. Don’t believe me?”
Minutes later, the youngest heir to the Ball Family throne emerges. There’s no powerful introduction from LaMelo, just a subtle “What’s good?” and a handshake.
It’d be hard to guess that this is the 17-year-old who’s become the mostwatched prep athlete of all time.
He has a 92-point game. He has his own signature shoe. He played pro basketball overseas at age 16. He scored nearly 40 per game as the headliner in
