الخميس، 23 نوفمبر 2017

LaVar Ball downplays U.S. President Donald Trump's role in LiAngelo Ball's release from China

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open_word} LOS ANGELES -- LaVar Ball downplayed his son's shoplifting incident in China, as well as President Donald Trump's involvement in getting LiAngelo Ball and two other UCLA basketball players back to the United States earlier this week. LaVar Ball told ESPN on Friday, when asked about Trump's involvement in the matter. "As long as my boy's back here, I'm fine," LaVar Ball told ESPN. A lot of people like to say a lot of things that they thought happened over there. "Everybody gets stuck on the negativity of some things and they get stuck on them too long.


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