3-pointer by Christian Braun

In a major blow to the NCAA’s model of amateurism, California passed a bill that will allow college athletes to profit from their own name, image and likeness.

LiAngelo Ball was always going to face an uphill battle when he left UCLA (and then Lithuania) to prepare for the NBA draft. And as expected, the middle Ball brother wasn’t drafted this summer. Yet, in the weeks leading up to the draft, reality began to set it for the once-confident LiAngelo. We saw in a recent episode of Ball in the Family that the Ball family agent, Harrison Gaines, briefed LiAngelo and LaVar of the slim draft prospects based on team feedback. When LiAngelo went on to tweak his ankle in a subsequent Warriors workout, a disappointed LiAngelo went from expecting to be drafted to discussing alternate routes to the NBA. In this week’s episode, LiAngelo couldn’t name a team that