{"id":159365,"date":"2018-06-24T06:45:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T13:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilcomprd.wpengine.com\/?p=159365"},"modified":"2023-06-12T14:33:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T21:33:18","slug":"lamelo-ball-flirts-with-40-point-triple-double-in-his-jba-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/lamelo-ball-flirts-with-40-point-triple-double-in-his-jba-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"LaMelo Ball Flirts With A 40-Point Triple-Double In His JBA Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LaMelo Ball doing BETWEEN the legs dunks now!? via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JBALeague?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JBAleague<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jkwZIXjdZU\">pic.twitter.com\/jkwZIXjdZU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ballislife\/status\/1010556840013426688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Less than a year ago, I was cracking jokes about LaMelo Ball's lack of hops. Since then, the 16-year-old star of his Dad's JBA (Junior Basketball Association) has lost a few inches off his hair and apparently gained inches on his vert and possibly his height.<\/p>\n<p>The JBA website has Melo's height and weight left blank (why?), but on an amusing recent visit to \"Big Boy In The Morning,\" Melo said he's 6-5, which is the same height as brother Gelo and an inch shorter than Lonzo. 6-5 is also the height of former NBA dunk champ JR Rider, who (once was arrested for possession of illegal cell phones and) won the 1994 dunk contest with a between the legs dunk; a dunk Melo looks pretty comfortable doing now.<\/p>\n<p>Melo also looked pretty comfortable in his JBA debut, putting up an easy 40 points with 11 rebounds, 9 assists, 3 steals and a couple of dunks in a win against a New York team made up of players that apparently didn't have many family and friends who were interested in attending the game.<\/p>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sBYrDHUsaYg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>BONUS VIDEO<\/h3>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UfsIaT_xrns\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LaMelo Ball doing BETWEEN the legs dunks now!? via @JBAleague pic.twitter.com\/jkwZIXjdZU &mdash; Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) June 23, 2018 Less&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":159371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8316,1444,23],"tags":[9370],"featured":[],"class_list":["post-159365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-all-blogs","category-video","tag-lamelo-ball"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - 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