Report: LaMelo, LiAngelo Ball exploring options to sign professionally overseas

Two members of the Ball family are thinking about crossing the pond.

Both LiAngelo Ball and younger brother LaMelo are beginning to explore options to play professional basketball overseas, sources told Shams Charania of Yahoo Sports. International teams have already been reportedly been contacted by Harrison Gaines, the representative for the two siblings, according to the report.

LaVar Ball, the father of the two teenagers as well as Los Angeles Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball, announced he intended to pull LiAngelo out of UCLA due to his frustration with the school's indefinite suspension of the 19-year-old after he was caught shoplifting in China. The outspoken patriarch later told ESPN's Darren Rovell he was going to better prepare his middle son for the NBA draft than UCLA would have, though he did not specify exactly how.

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Opting to play professionally would bring an end to both LiAngelo and LaMelo's eligibility in the NCAA. The latter, who had already been pulled out of high school by his father in order to be homeschooled, had previously verbally committed to joining UCLA for the 2019 class.