The middle of the much-hyped Ball brothers is the only one not to make the NBA. But his music career has many hailing his family\u2019s nose for success<\/p>\n
\n If ever there was an athlete who could be a spokesperson for middle-child syndrome, it\u2019s LiAngelo Ball \u2013 basketball\u2019s black sheep. Nearly a decade ago the 6ft 5in forward was touted as an NBA inevitable with his brothers, Lonzo and LaMelo; most of that promotion came loud and direct from paterfamilias LaVar, who parlayed the acute national interest in the boys into the family-owned Big Baller Brand apparel company<\/a>.<\/p>\n But while \u201cZo\u201c and \u201cMelo\u201d have since realized the father\u2019s prophecy \u2013 running point, respectively, for the Chicago Bulls and Charlotte Hornets \u2013 \u201cGelo\u201d morphed into an object of ridicule as he bounced around minor leagues at home and abroad. Just when it seemed LiAngelo couldn\u2019t be any more pitiable, he reemerged at the beginning of this year on a popular stream<\/a> belonging to an internet personality named N3on to share a rap song he made called Tweaker. \u201cI might swerve, bend that corner \/ whoa-oh-ohhhh,\u201d he drones on the chorus. \u201cYou wanna tweak? \/ Get up with me and Ima show you how that go.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The middle of the much-hyped Ball brothers is the only one not to make the NBA. But his music career has many hailing his family\u2019s nose for success If ever there was an athlete who could be a spokesperson for middle-child syndrome, it\u2019s LiAngelo Ball \u2013 basketball\u2019s black sheep. Nearly a decade ago the 6ft … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}