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LaMelo Ball, born on 22 August 2001 in Chino Hills, California, is an American basketball player who plays point guard in the National Basketball Association. He began his career in 2018 and has played for BC Prienai and the Charlotte Hornets, the team that drafted him. Ball's father is LaVar Ball, and his siblings are Lonzo Ball and LiAngelo Ball. He speaks English and has a net worth of 20 million dollars.
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Chino Hills - California - USA
LaMelo LaFrance Ball is an American professional basketball player for the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association. He was selected by the Hornets with the third overall pick of the 2020 NBA draft.
Known for
- The Next Stars — Himself2021
- Ball In The Family — Self2017
- ESPY Awards — Self1993
via TMDB
Key facts
- 2018
- Prienai
- Position
- Point guard
- League
- NBA
- Born
- ( 2001-08-22 ) August 22, 2001 (age 24) , Anaheim, California , U.S.
- Listed height
- 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
- Listed weight
- 180 lb (82 kg)
- High school
- Chino Hills ( Chino Hills, California ) SPIRE Academy ( Geneva, Ohio )
- Nba draft
- 2020 : 1st round, 3rd overall pick
- Drafted by
- Charlotte Hornets
- Playing career
- 2018–present
- 2019 2020
- Illawarra Hawks
- 2020 present
- Charlotte Hornets
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Basketball
- Team
- Charlotte Hornets
- Position
- Point Guard
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Ball
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chino Hills
- Father
- LaVar Ball
- Sibling
- Lonzo Ball
- Occupation
- basketball player
- Native language
- English language
- Sport
- basketball
- Member of team
- Charlotte Hornets
- Position played
- point guard
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 160
- Image
- LaMelo Ball (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 2.00
Show 6 more facts
- date of birth
- 2001-08-22
- start of work period
- 2018-00-00
- Commons category
- LaMelo Ball
- social media followers
- 1077039
- drafted by
- Charlotte Hornets
- net worth
- 20000000
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Encyclopedic overview
LaMelo LaFrance Ball (/ləˈmɛloʊ/ lə-MEL-oh; August 22, 2001) is an American professional basketball player for the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected by the Hornets with the third overall pick of the 2020 NBA draft. Ball was voted the NBA Rookie of the Year in 2021 and named an NBA All-Star the following season in 2022.
Ball began high school at Chino Hills High School in Chino Hills, California, where he won a state championship and achieved national success as a freshman. Before his junior season, a coaching dispute prompted him to leave Chino Hills and sign with Lithuanian professional team Prienai. In 2018, he played in the Junior Basketball Association (JBA), a league created by his father, before returning to high school as a senior with SPIRE Academy in Geneva, Ohio. Ball was a five-star recruit and committed to UCLA, but chose to forgo college basketball amid eligibility concerns and play in Australia for the Illawarra Hawks of the National Basketball League (NBL) in 2019. There, he had a meteoric rise. Previously, scouts had marked Ball as a second-round pick and potentially never playing in the NBA. However, his success led him to be selected third overall by the Hornets in the 2020 draft.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “LaMelo Ball” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.