| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|All-Star | 1 || 0 || 22.0 || .636 || .500 || || 3.0 || 3.0 || 3.0 || .0 || 18.0 NBL |- | style="text-align:left;"|2019–20 | style="text-align:left;"|Illawarra | 12 || 12 || 31.2 || .377 || .250 || .723 || 7.4 || 6.8 || 1.7 || .2 || 17.0 LKL |- | style="text-align:left;"|2017–18 | style="text-align:left;"|Prienai | 8 || 1 || 12.8 || .268 || .250 || .737 || 1.1 || 2.4 || .8 || .1 || 6.5 Personal life Ball is the youngest son of LaVar and Tina (née Slatinsky) Ball, who are both former college basketball players. LaVar, who stands , competed with Washington State and then Cal State Los Angeles. Tina, who stands , also played with the latter school. Later on, LaVar played professional football as a tight end for the London Monarchs of the World League of American Football after being loaned from the New York Jets. In 2017, LaVar became a popular but polarizing sports media personality, primarily for making outlandish remarks about the careers of himself and his sons. Ball's cousin Andre plays college basketball for Pepperdine. Since his freshman season in high school, Ball has drawn the attention of national sports outlets and established a large social media following. By 2017, many analysts were calling him a celebrity. Ball has a role in the Facebook Watch reality show Ball in the Family, which was launched in August 2017 and documents the lives of his family members. On June 26, 2017, Ball appeared on a segment of WWE Raw with members of his family, during which he told his father, "Beat that nigga ass!" The WWE later apologized for his "inappropriate language." Ball is the subject of a rap single titled "Melo Ball 1" and released by his brother, Lonzo, on September 8, 2017. On August 31, 2017, Big Baller Brand, a sports apparel company launched by Ball's family in 2016, released a signature shoe for him called the Melo Ball 1 (MB1). He became the youngest athlete to ever have a signature shoe. Ball signed with Puma in 2021. References External links NBL profile 2001 births Living people African-American basketball players American expatriate basketball people in Australia American expatriate basketball people in Lithuania American men's basketball players Ball family Basketball players from California BC Prienai players Charlotte Hornets draft picks Charlotte Hornets players Chino Hills High School alumni Illawarra Hawks