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Should UCLA Basketball be worried about LaMelo Ball’s eligibility?

If recruiting hasn’t been hard enough for UCLA Basketball Head Coach Steve Alford, it might get tougher in 2019. That is the recruiting year that the youngest brother (LaMelo Ball) of UCLA’s superstar freshman last year, Lonzo Ball, is set to join the Bruins.

Today, that commitment to UCLA was put in question when the Ball father, LaVar Ball, said that he does not care about LaMelo’s college eligibility.

According to Jeff Goodman of ESPN, when asked about LaMelo’s eligibility after the release of his own shoe (the youngest Ball released his signature Big Baller Brand shoes earlier today which cost $395), LaVar said, “We’ll worry about it when we get there.