(2001-08-22) August 22, 2001 (age 22) Anaheim, California, U.S.
Listed height
6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
Listed weight
180 lb (82 kg)
Career information
High school
Chino Hills (Chino Hills, California)
SPIRE Academy (Geneva, Ohio)
NBA draft
2020: 1st round, 3rd overall pick
Selected by the Charlotte Hornets
Playing career
2018–present
Career history
2018
Prienai
2018
Los Angeles Ballers
2019–2020
Illawarra Hawks
2020–present
Charlotte Hornets
Career highlights and awards
NBA All-Star (2022)
NBA Rookie of the Year (2021)
NBA All-Rookie First Team (2021)
NBL Rookie of the Year (2020)
JBA champion (2018)
JBA All-Star (2018)
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
LaMelo LaFrance Ball (born 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 with his older brothers Lonzo and LiAngelo. 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 mocked 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.
Ball and his brothers have attracted national attention since playing together in high school. His father, LaVar, also grew into a media personality in 2017. Ball has a signature shoe by his father's company, Big Baller Brand, and a role on his family's Facebook Watch reality show Ball in the Family. His older brother Lonzo Ball is a guard for the Chicago Bulls.
LaMeloLaFrance Ball (born August 22, 2001) is an American professional basketball player for the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association...
Greensboro Swarm shooting guard LiAngelo and Charlotte Hornets point guard LaMelo. Ball played basketball and football while at Canoga Park High School, going...
championship and achieved national success as a junior with his brothers Lonzo and LaMelo, who are both current NBA guards. A three-star recruit and UCLA signee,...
produced signature shoes for the Ball brothers—basketball players Lonzo Ball, LaMeloBall, and LiAngelo Ball. Big Baller Brand has additionally been involved...
issues. In May, the team added LaMeloBall, who did not graduate from high school, the youngest son of the league's founder LaVar and a former five-star recruit...
sign-and-trade deal with the Hornets. On November 18, 2020, the Hornets selected LaMeloBall with the third overall pick. The Hornets also drafted Vernon Carey Jr...
Hills High School in California, playing alongside the ball brothers, Lonzo, LiAngelo, and LaMeloBall for his first 2 years. As a freshman, he helped his...
this event. The top, headlining prospect involved with this combine is LaMeloBall, an automatically eligible draft prospect that gained fame as a professional...
LaVar Ball, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Big Baller Brand and father to Chicago Bulls player Lonzo Ball and his brothers, LiAngelo and LaMelo...
2017, it is Ball's first official song and is about his younger brother LaMeloBall and his signature Big Baller Brand shoe, the MeloBall 1 (MB1). A segment...
against Jonava. Under Ball's coaching, LaMelo and LiAngelo Ball played increased minutes and had their top performances of the Big Baller Brand Challenge Games...
of Liga ACB and EuroLeague), and LaMeloBall (BC Prienai of the Lithuanian Basketball League, the Los Angeles Ballers of the JBA, and the Illawarra Hawks...
130–95 win over the Milwaukee Bucks, a record that was later broken by LaMeloBall. For the 2018–19 season, head coach Brett Brown named Fultz the starting...
stars Giannis Antetokounmpo, Candace Parker, Joel Embiid, Kelsey Plum, LaMeloBall, Jayson Tatum, Jalen Green, Taylor Rooks, Richard Jefferson and Simu...
Amateur Athletic Union alongside future NBA player LaMeloBall, and his brothers Lonzo and LiAngelo Ball. In 2018, Daijon Davis graduated from Chino Hills...
move, Vytautas signed American basketball players and brothers LaMelo and LiAngelo Ball. In July 2023, the club declared bankruptcy and ceased all operations...
June 2019, high school phenom LaMeloBall announced on ESPN's The Jump that he will sign with the Illawarra Hawks. Ball became the second high school...
Ariza Marvin Bagley III Michael Beasley Steve Blake Bobby Brown LaMeloBall LiAngelo Ball Jordan Bell Shannon Brown Kobe Bryant Jordan Clarkson John Collins...
professional experience. This rule was relaxed in 2020 when American Next Star LaMeloBall was named Rookie of the Year. The award was discontinued in 2023 following...
sensation LaMeloBall announced on ESPN's show The Jump that he will be joining the Hawks through the NBL's Next Star program. In April 2020, LaMeloBall and...
Breakthrough Athlete Award at the 2021 ESPYs, which went to NBA player LaMeloBall, and was ranked 61st on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2021 list. Young's...
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