It looks like LaMelo Ball is going to be getting a “big baller” high school education.
The bombastic LaVar Ball, LaMelo’s father, announced on Monday that he’s taking his son out of his current high school, Chino Hills, and intends to home school him, according to multiple reports.
“I’m going to make him the best basketball player ever,” LaVar told the Los Angeles Times.
LaMelo, 16, was entering his junior year at Chino Hills, a school he and his older brother Lonzo, the No. 2 overall pick of this past June’s NBA draft, helped go 35-0 in back-to-back seasons.
According to ESPN’s Ramona Shelbourne, however, LaVar is effectively ending LaMelo’s high school career because of a difference of opinion with Chino Hills’ new coach Dennis Latimore.
Shelbourne says LaVar has coached his three sons – Lonzo, LaMelo and LiAngelo – to “play fast and shoot a lot,” something that is in direct contrast to Latimore who wants to see Chino Hills play a slower, more deliberate style.
LaVar intends to check LaMelo out of Chino Hills on Tuesday. But if this does actually happen it won’t have much impact on LaMelo’s future as he already verbally committed to UCLA for the 2019 class and, as LaVar told the L.A. Times, he still intends to sign with the Bruins.
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