LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball were lured to their Lithuanian basketball team when a team employee DMed their agent on Twitter

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December 20, 2017 6:20 PM

An employee for Prienu Vytautas in Lithuania messaged the agent of LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball and asked if they would want to play for his team.

LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball in December signed one-year contracts to play for Lithuanian basketball team Prienu Vytautas.
The signing was initiated when an employee from the team DMed the Balls' agent on Twitter asking if they would be interested in playing in Lithuania.
Less than week later, the brothers were signing deals to play for the team.

LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball, the brothers of Los Angeles Lakers rookie point guard Lonzo Ball and sons of LaVar Ball, caught the basketball world by surprise last week when they signed with a Lithunian basketball club.

The two prospects' futures were up in the air after LaVar had pulled LiAngelo out of UCLA following a suspension over shoplifting charges in China and after pulling LaMelo from high school to focus on basketball.

While the family was said to be exploring overseas options, few would have guessed that they would land on a small Lithuanian team in a small town with a population of 9 - 10,000 people.

According to The New York Times' Andrew Keh, the entire situation was set up by a confident employee of the team who reached out to the Balls' agent, Harrison Gaines, via Twitter, asking if the brothers would want to play for the club.

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