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Illawarra Hawks Should Sign Lamelo Ball’s Brother, Liangelo

Why not go all in and just air episodes of Ball in the Family instead of actually playing games?

Imagine the social media buzz!

Time to get off Balls balls. If he leaves so be it, hasn’t exactly been the mega star everyone was hoping for. Biggest thing is having a brand like Slam onboard. Ball himself is no game winning highlight reel that can’t miss. Oh but ‘he’s only 18’... it’s not that young to be playing great for a prodigy. The brother need not attend. The hawks need a pro baller who can bring back some respectability, or the franchise is getting closer to finally folding.

I think signing him isn't the worst idea, only if its at the expense of a local though.

Not worth cutting Boone for him, cutting Boone is only worth it now for a significant upgrade, 2hich gelo isn't.

They need an absolute stud to replace Brooks too, which Gelo isn't.

If they dropped one of their end of bench aussie guys for him, i don't think its the worst thing.

Pretty sure they couldn't release Boone unless they paid out his contract in full, he has past NBL experience so wouldn't be on the standard probationary import contract.

their attendance at home hasn’t been great to begin with

@ME their season is basically over so for a regional team they should capatialise on this opportunity to make more revenue from having Lamelo. Getting Liangelo would hopefully keep him for the rest of the season and can set up a bright future for the illawarra hawks for many years to come.

Please stop posting

No surprise to read inflammatory comments from Kobe; he's not one to sit on the fence. Here's the one-on-one section, though the whole article is worth a read if you have time and are a Kobe/NBA fan:

Who would you most like to play one-on-one, either active or retired?

Jordan. No question.

What would happen?

I’m not sure, but he would win some and I would win some in a seven-game series. It would probably come down to the last few shots.

You versus LeBron? Who wins?

Me. No question. As far as one-on-one, I’m the best to ever do it.

Damn. That’s pretty confident.

LeBron is a terrific all-around, five-on-five basketball player who’s an all-time great. But I’d get him.

Who could get you?

Kevin Durant is the guy that would give me the most trouble. With his length and ability to use the dribble, he’d be tough.

I always wanted to see you play Tracy McGrady.

I played T-Mac. I cooked him. Roasted him. Wasn’t even close. Ask him, he’ll tell you. When I was about 20, we were in Germany doing some promotional stuff for that other sneaker company and we played basketball every day. We were in the gym all the time. We played three games of one-on-one to 11. I won all three games. One game I won 11-2. After the third game he said he had back spasms and couldn’t play anymore.

His back bothered him for most of his career.

Well, now you know.

What about Kyrie Irving?

[Huge smile, laugh.] Kyrie’s my boy, but he knows he doesn’t have anything for me. He doesn’t want to see me. But it would be fun. I’ve beaten a lot of guys one-on-one, like Reggie Miller and Grant Hill. I used to play Caron Butler all the time in practice when he was with the Lakers. When I was a rookie I used to get Nick Van Exel and Eddie Jones. They know. They’ll tell you. They used to come at me hard but I wasn’t having that. I love going one-on-one with someone. That’s what I do. I’ve never lost. It’s a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.