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I’ll admit readily that I am not all that keen on pop culture personalities. I don’t keep up with them.<\/p>\n

I’m actually a bit unclear whether LaVar Ball fits into that category of celebrity. But he’s intriguing me in a curious sort of way.<\/p>\n

He’s the father of a professional basketball player, Lonzo Ball. His second-oldest son also is a pretty good basketball player who, until just the other day, was enrolled at UCLA; his name is LiAngelo Ball. There’s a third kid, too, who I reckon is going to play hoops for someone.<\/p>\n

LaVar the Loudmouth thrust his name into the news, which I guess is his specialty, when LiAngelo and two UCLA teammates got caught shoplifting at a department store in China, where they were playing some non-conference games.<\/p>\n

Chinese authorities were threatening to imprison the young men. Then Donald Trump intervened. He persuaded the commies to let the boys out. They came home. Daddy Ball got into a public beef with the president over whether he thanked the president sufficiently.<\/p>\n

Back and forth they went.<\/p>\n

Then LaVar pulled LiAngelo out of UCLA.<\/p>\n

This is a case of someone hogging attention away from others. Imagine that. LaVar Ball<\/em> and Donald Trump<\/em> engaging in a man-to-man fight over who should bask in the spotlight.<\/p>\n

So, what’s going to happen to LiAngelo? Is he going to play basketball for another college? As for Lonzo — who’s playing hoops for the Los Angeles Lakers, what does the future bode for him? What if he washes out? What is Daddy Ball going to do?<\/p>\n

I’ll presume that LaVar loves his sons. He might think he’s doing them a big favor by cheering them on so loudly — and obnoxiously — from the front row.<\/p>\n

However, the very idea that this guy — whose major talent seems to rival that of the Kardashians, Paris Hilton and the whole roster of Housewives of Wherever — is able to thrust himself into the public discussion speaks so very graphically about what has become of popular culture these days.<\/p>\n

It seems that anyone<\/em> can be a celebrity in the Social Media Age.<\/p>\n\n

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