UCLA Basketball Recruiting: LaMelo Ball signs with an agent, will not attend UCLA

UCLA basketball’s Ball family drama is now over as LaVar Ball said his son LaMelo Ball has hired an agent and is planning to play oversees.

LaVar has dropped the Ball… again. Two days after pulling his son LiAngelo Ball from the UCLA basketball team, the eccentric father told ESPN the former Bruin and his younger brother LaMelo Ball have hired an agent.

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According to Jeff Goodman of ESPN, “LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball have signed with agent Harrison Gaines, ending any speculation that LaMelo will play college basketball.” LaVar Ball also made it very clear, “[LaMelo’s] not going to play college basketball.”

And just like that, the Balls are no more.

LaVar Ball has a bigger plan for his sons and it does not include UCLA. Ball stated, “I don’t care about the money, I want them to go somewhere where they will play them together on the court at the same time. The priority is for the boys to play on the same team.”

With money not a factor and the father wanting the sons to play on the same team, it seems logical that both Balls attend UCLA, but as we know, there is nothing logical about LaVar.

On Tuesday, Ball pulled his middle son out of UCLA because he believed his punishment by the university for shoplifting in China last month was too harsh. Ball followed that up, as he does, with a few parting shots at UCLA, “I’m going to make him way better for the draft that UCLA ever could have.”

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Well now LaMelo’s career at UCLA is over before it even began with him signing with an agent. This makes him ineligible to play for the Bruins and now the UCLA basketball team has an open scholarship for the 2019 class. Currently, the Bruins have only one player committed to the 2019 recruiting class, 4-star shooting guard Grant Sherfield from Mansfield Summit in Arlington, Texas.