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NBA draft 2020: Inside the LaMelo Ball Draft Night Extravaganza

The Ball Family Draft Night Extravaganza (heavy on the extra) began hours before the first pick, at a check-in table in the driveway of the family home in Chino Hills, California. Temperatures are taken, hand sanitizer is offered, waivers are signed, pens are separated in containers marked CLEAN and USED, and each signee holds the signed waiver near said signee's face for a photograph, clearing the way for any and all likenesses to be used for the inevitable reality show spinoff. A young woman in a Big Baller Brand T-shirt bearing the slogan "Family Never Breaks Up" takes the photo with her phone, and we're off.