LaMelo LaFrance Ball is an American professional basketball player for the Charlotte Hornets football team of the National Basketball Association. He was selected by the Hornets with his third overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft. Ball started high school at Chino Hills High School in Chino Hills, California, where he won the state championship and won. gained national success as a rookie with his brothers Lonzo and LiAngelo. Before his youth season, a coach dispute led him to leave Chino Hills and sign for professional team Lithuania Prienai. In 2018, he played in the Teen Basketball Association, a tournament created by his father, before returning to high school as a senior at SPIRE Academy in Geneva, Ohio. Once a UCLA rookie, he was a five-star rookie, but opted out of college basketball due to eligibility issues and played in Australia for the National Basketball Federation's Illawarra Hawks in 2019, won the NBL Rookie of the Year.
Point guard who was highly recruited at a young age and verbally committed to UCLA, but deferred to play one season of professional basketball in Australia with the Illawarra Hawks of the National Basketball League (NBL). The Charlotte Hornets selected him third overall in the 2020 NBA Draft, and he went on to win the NBA Rookie of the Year award in 2021.
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