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Sports Betting News NBA reporters Amit Mann and Seerat Sohi break down the Raptors’ big win and Lowry-Memphis trade rumours with Ashley Docking and Vivek Jacob of Raptors Republic.

Lonzo Ball’s lone season in college ended in a Sweet 16 loss against Kentucky. He averaged 14.6 points and 7 assists per game with UCLA, earning All-American honors. By any measure, his time in college was a success. Yet, Ball says he would have skipped his year at UCLA if his father’s JBA had existed at the time. In an interview after a JBA tryout, Ball said he would have played in the JBA over UCLA because he was already an NBA lock. Ball said: “Personally, for sure. I already knew I was an NBA lock, so to be able to play for money and get better at the same time – it doesn’t beat that.” LaVar Ball started the JBA as an alternative to college basketball, offering players a chance to get paid

As Steelers running back Le’Veon Bell continues to stay away from the team in advance of the first game of the regular season, his teammates have provided fairly stunning on-the-record criticism of Bell’s failure to show up. “One veteran Steeler told me players waited a day to criticize Bell to give him a chance to come in Wednesday but ‘he f—ed us,’â€� reports Jeremy Fowler of ESPN. Bell’s plan isn’t clear, but the comments that have come on Wednesday surely require his agent, Adisa Bakari, to re-evaluate things.