Li Angelo Ball (26), the second member of the ball family, found another talent instead of basketball.
ESPN said on the 14th (Korea Standard Time) that Li Angelo agreed to a record contract with Def Jam, a Universal Music Group affiliate.
Def Jam is a record label with a large number of famous artists, including Justin Bieber, DJ Khalid, and Kanye West.
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The size of the contract is a condition that you can receive up to $13 million for the guaranteed amount of $8 million. Ball is said to have full ownership of the music and the record labels he holds.
Li Angelo, who grew up as a basketball player with his older brother Lonzo and younger brother Lamello, went to UCLA after attending Chinohills High School, but his career began to get twisted when he was caught stealing goods from luxury stores with two other teammates during a visit to Shanghai, China, for the season opener in November 2017.
He was finally released from China and escaped prison, but after returning home, he was suspended indefinitely by the UCLA basketball team and quit school in December of that year.
Later, he entered the Lithuanian League’s preenai with his younger brother, Lamello, and built a professional career, but did not receive a pick in the 2018 draft.
-In December 2019, he signed with the Oklahoma City Blue, a G League club under the Oklahoma City Thunder, but played only one game and signed a training camp contract with the Detroit Pistons in December 2020, but was waived.
In 2021, he joined the Charlotte Hornets training camp, where his younger brother LaMelo plays, but failed to join the roster. In October 2021, he was selected by the green sboros swarm of Charlotte’s G League club in the G League Draft. He played in 19 games for greensboro from 2021 to 2023.
He then signed with Mexican club Astros de Jalisco in 2024, but left the team after two appearances due to an ankle injury.
Unlike the two brothers who play in the NBA, they failed as basketball players, but instead found a different path. His recently released single “Tweaker” became a success.
In the early 2000s, the song, which is considered to express the emotions of rap and modern hip-hop, was released on YouTube’s “World Star Hip Hop” and has more than 8 million views.
For the Ball family, rap is not an unfamiliar genre. Lonzo had released several songs, including “Zo2,” with the aim of promoting signature shoes made by his Big Bowler brand. But as a professional singer, I didn’t walk.
[KIM JAE HO, MK Sports Reporter]
