LaVar Ball’s professional basketball league will play four games at Duluth’s Infinite Energy Center in July.
Ball announced the Junior Basketball Association in December as an alternative to aspiring NBA talent looking to fulfill the league's entry requirements without having to attend college. The JBA intends to pay high school graduates up to $10,000 per month to play.
The league, which will field an Atlanta team, advertises an elite talent pool:
"The JBA league is setting out to discover the next professional basketball superstars. Special athletes that have the natural IQ, physicality, and mindset to become the best basketball players in the world. Come see the new era of basketball."
The Atlanta Ballers team will include Fionn Brown, a 6-foot-6 shooting forward from Marietta; Jordan Ray, a 6-foot-3 guard from West Virginia; Nigel Chaney, a guard from Columbia, S.C., who graduated high school in 2016; and Corey Boyd, a 6-foot-9 forward from Durham, N.C.
The team was selected from tryouts last month, attended by Los Angeles Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball. As part of their commitment to the JBA, players must wear Ball’s Big Baller Brand apparel.
Lonzo Ball, LaVar’s oldest son, is featured on the league’s logo.
Tickets to the July 3 and July 24 double-headers range from $40 to $99.
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