[SPORTS] : Lavar Ball Launching Junior Basketball Association

Written by on December 24, 2017

LaVar Ball is switching up the basketball game! LaVar is starting a basketball league for high school graduates that are looking for a place to get paid to play basketball other than college.

According to ESPN, It would be called the Junior Basketball Association and it will pay the players a salary of $3,000-$10,000 a month. The goal is to land 80 players, put them on 10 different teams and play in NBA arenas in Los Angeles, Dallas, Brooklyn and Atlanta. The catch is that the league would be sponsored by Big Baller Brand, meaning that all of the kids participating would be wearing BBB shoes, BBB jerseys, BBB warmups, BBB everything.

TSR STAFF: Tanya P.! @tanyaxpayne _________________________________ #LaVarBall is closing out the year with a bang #Roommates! He just announced that his 2018 will be all about developing his new basketball league that will pay players who have graduated high school but don’t want to go to college. ___________________________________ According to @ESPN, LaVar says he’s starting his Junior Basketball Association that is fully funded by Big Baller Brand. He’s looking for 80 nationally ranked players to fill 10 teams and plans to pay the lowest ranked player $3k a month and the highest ranked player $10k monthly. In a statement to ESPN, LaVar says: “Getting these players is going to be easy. This is giving guys a chance to get a jump start on their career, to be seen by pro scouts, and we’re going to pay them because someone has to pay these kids.” ____________________________________ Ball says the rules of his league will follow the rules of the NBA, with 12 minute quarters and—read more at theshaderoom.com (?: @gettyimages )

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