{"id":152905,"date":"2018-01-06T04:57:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T12:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilcomprd.wpengine.com\/?p=152905"},"modified":"2023-06-12T14:49:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T21:49:44","slug":"big-baller-brand-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/big-baller-brand-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Baller Brand Challenge Games &#038; The Best Ball Family Moments From Friday's Press Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dsz7vodgjx60a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IG-BALLBROS-LIVE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"779\" height=\"622\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-152906\" src=\"https:\/\/dsz7vodgjx60a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IG-BALLBROS-LIVE.jpg\" alt=\"IG-BALLBROS-LIVE\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dsz7vodgjx60a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IG-BALLBROS-LIVE.jpg 779w, https:\/\/dsz7vodgjx60a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IG-BALLBROS-LIVE-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lithuania, are you ready for the <strong>Big Baller Brand Challenge Games<\/strong>? It's only the biggest basketball event for the country since their national team won Bronze in the 1992 Olympics after the breakup of the Soviet Union!<\/p>\n<p>Obviously I'm kidding and hoping I didn't offend any fellow Arvydas Sabonis fans. And I have a Lithuanian last name (even though I'm not Lithuanian), so this should allow me a free pass to joke about the new home of LaMelo and LiAngelo Ball for the next few months.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the two Ball brothers practiced for the first time with their Lithuanian team, Prienu Vytautas, and then participated in an amusing press conference, highlighted by a reporter asking Gelo out and if he has a girlfriend. His response was, \"I'm just here to play basketball, no comment.\" If you watch the '<a href=\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/watch-the-first-two-episodes-of-ball-in-the-family-bittersweet-victory-forging-a-path\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ball in the Family<\/a>' reality show on Facebook then you know he does in fact have a girlfriend and why he probably isn't interested in leaving her. Then again, he has money and he was willing to...never mind.<\/p>\n<p>Another highlight from the press conference was a man handing LaVar The Prophet (and Profit) a Lakers hat and asking him to write the date all three of his sons will be members of Lonzo's current team. LaVar wrote 2020! So mark it down LaVar haters.<\/p>\n<p>Another date worth marking down is January 9th (Tuesday at 1:30 PM EST) of 2018. That's the date LaMelo and LiAngelo will make their pro debuts in the <strong>Big Baller Brand Challenge<\/strong> -- a five-game exhibition formed by the team after withdrawing from the Baltic Basketball League.&nbsp; The first game will be streamed by Ballislife (that's us!) on our <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lY52y4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Weekly Showcase Channel on Facebook<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"atom bulletedList\" data-reactid=\"164\">\n<li data-reactid=\"165\">Jan. 9:&nbsp;Vytautas&nbsp;vs. BC Zalgiris-2 (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lY52y4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Broadcast Link<\/a><\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li data-reactid=\"166\">Jan. 15:&nbsp;Vytautas&nbsp;vs.&nbsp;BC Lietuvos Rytas-2<\/li>\n<li data-reactid=\"167\">Jan. 17:&nbsp;Vytautas&nbsp;vs. BC Vytis<\/li>\n<li data-reactid=\"168\">Jan. 23:&nbsp;Vytautas&nbsp;vs.&nbsp;BC Dz\u016bkija<\/li>\n<li data-reactid=\"169\">Jan. 28:&nbsp;Vytautas&nbsp;vs.&nbsp;BC Jonava<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuania, are you ready for the Big Baller Brand Challenge Games? 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