page_title: LiAngelo Ball
section_title: College career
hierarchical_section_title: LiAngelo Ball / College career
caption_attribution_description: English: LiAngelo Ball @Venice Beach playing in a UCLA scrimmage
context_page_description: LiAngelo Robert Ball is an American basketball player for the Oklahoma City Blue of the NBA G League. Listed at 6 feet 5 inches and 230 pounds, he plays the shooting guard and small forward positions.
  Ball played for Chino Hills High School in California, where he won a state championship and achieved national success as a junior with his brothers Lonzo, now an NBA guard, and LaMelo, a top NBA prospect. A three-star recruit and UCLA signee, he decided to forgo college basketball after being suspended for shoplifting in China before the 2017–18 season. In turn, Ball signed with Lithuanian professional team Prienai. He later played in the Junior Basketball Association, a league founded by his father, before joining the G League at the end of 2019–20.
  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.
context_section_description: Ball was a consensus three-star recruit. 247Sports.com ranked him outside of their top-200 recruits nationally and as the 50th best shooting guard in his class. Having already committed to play for the UCLA Bruins as a high school sophomore, Ball signed a letter of intent on November 2, 2016, and enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles on June 1, 2017. He was projected to be a reserve for during his 2017–18 freshman season for UCLA. He played his only game with the Bruins in the preseason on November 1, 2017, against NCAA Division II team Cal State Los Angeles, scoring 11 points.
  On November 7, 2017, days before UCLA's regular season opener against Georgia Tech in Shanghai, China, Ball and two other freshman teammates were arrested in Hangzhou for allegedly stealing sunglasses from a Louis Vuitton store at a high-end shopping center near their team hotel. The trio potentially faced a fine and three to ten years in prison but were soon released from custody. Ball was suspended indefinitely from the UCLA basketball program. On December 4, he announced that he planned to withdraw from UCLA; his father LaVar had grown frustrated over the length of the suspension. Had Ball stayed at UCLA, he would have remained suspended for the rest of the season.
caption: Ball practicing with UCLA at Venice Beach in October 2017
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