Perhaps you have heard of the Ball family within the past year. Three superstar brothers who all played on the same high school basketball team at one point and won a California state championship.

Lonzo, the oldest brother, went on to play at UCLA for the required one year to be eligible for the NBA and currently plays  in the Los Angeles Lakers organization.

LiAngelo, the middle brother, graduated from Chino Hills High School last year and is currently playing for UCLA also, expected to enter for the 2018 NBA Draft just like his older brother.

Then you have Lamelo; the youngest and wildest of all of them and started his junior year at Chino Hills this fall and committed verbally to play basketball also at UCLA when he was 13 years old.

The father of these ballers, LaVar Ball, says he has had a vision since his kids were born that they would all make it to the NBA one day, and they are going to do it as quickly as possible.

Since Lonzo arrived at UCLA, LaVar Ball has been famously trolling people, starting by saying UCLA would win the NCAA Division I basketball championship (but didn’t) almost a year ago, to Lonzo becoming a Laker the next year, to jawing back and forth between the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley. He didn’t stop there though, designing Lonzo’s signature shoe from his company, Big Baller Brand, called the ZO2, which retailed for a whopping $495.

You get the idea; LaVar definitely has a lot of confidence in his kids and expects them to do great things. But, because of their growing success on the basketball court, LaVar has started to run his mouth more and more, and has propelled his family into the center of attention in the basketball community.

His most recent eyebrow-raising headline was of Lamelo dropping out Chino Hills last week after a disagreement with the new head coach Dennis Latimore over adding players to the varsity roster.

LaVar plans to home-school “Melo” for his last two years of high school so he can train to prepare for college basketball. In an interview with ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne he said, “It’s a new coach and I don’t like him one bit.”

It isn’t the first time LaVar has spoken out against his sons’ high school coaches. In April, Stephen Gilling, a long-time friend of the Ball family, was fired after having several disagreements with LaVar over a season where Chino Hills would fall just short of making the state championship for the second straight year.

The year before, Steve Baik led Chino Hills to a state championship but was fired after the season ended, one of the reasons because LaVar did not like his coaching.

It will be interesting to see within the next couple of weeks to see whether Lamelo’s teammates will stay on the basketball team at Chino Hills or if they will leave the chaos surrounding the program.

LaVar Ball is a very hard man to please, and his ego does get in the way, but you can’t argue with the success that he has produced. Lonzo, LiAngelo and Lamelo all have become household names, and it seems they will continued to be talked about for a long time.