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Sources: Ball picks up $21.4M option with Bulls

Chicago Bulls guard Lonzo Ball exercised the $21.4 million option on his contract for the 2024-2025 season, sources told ESPN on Saturday.

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Sources: Bulls' Lonzo Ball picks up $21.4M option for 2024-25​

After missing the past two-plus seasons with a knee injury, Chicago Bulls guard Lonzo Ball has exercised the $21.4 million option on his contract for the 2024-25 season, sources told ESPN on Saturday.

Ball has undergone three surgeries on his left knee, the most recent a cartilage transplant in 2023. There remains some guarded hope that he could return next season, but there are no assurances that the damaged knee will allow for him to play again.
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His inactivity has caused his contract to become a blight on the Bulls' salary cap.

Just sayin': That sure was "no brainer" for Ball......

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Lonzo Ball wonders if his father's Big Baller Brand shoes caused his career-threatening knee injuries​

Ball wore the shoes, which were the creation of his father, LaVar Ball, during his rookie season​

Ball has thoughts on that, and his father, LaVar Ball, who constructed one of the all-time hype machines around his three sons, isn't going to like where Lonzo's finger is pointing. What did Spike Lee say to the great Michael Jordan? It's gotta be the shoes!



From ESPN:

Did Lonzo actually want to wear Big Baller Brand shoes?

"I was an Adidas kid since high school, so I was thinking that was going to be the route," Ball said. "But what was told to me, I guess, wasn't what really happened. I was told that nobody wanted to partner with me, so my dad was like, 'Just rock the brand.' And I was like,

'All right.'"

The problem, Ball said, was that the first shoes his dad had made for him to wear at NBA summer league in 2017 were unwearable.

"They were like kickball shoes," Ball said. He wore them just twice that summer. He and his manager, Darren Moore, went out to Foot Locker stores in Las Vegas to buy a different pair of high-end shoes for each game. Ball played one game each in the Air Jordan XXXI, Nike Kobe A.D., Adidas Harden LS and Under Armour Curry 4 en route to winning summer league MVP.

Eventually, Big Baller Brand set up an arrangement with Skechers to manufacture its shoes, which Ball wore for his entire rookie season. But Ball said he wasn't happy with those shoes either and believes they could have contributed to the first meniscus injury he suffered as a rookie in January 2018.

"I think it's a possibility for sure, to be honest with you," Ball said. "I wasn't really getting hurt like that until I started wearing them."

Obviously nobody could ever say whether these shoes, which were selling for an outrageous $495 despite being a clearly inferior product, had any part in Ball's injury troubles.

But if Lonzo isn't ruling it out, I guess nobody should.

That was fun, and a brutal reminder of just how precise a lot of these spreads are. Congrats @jakenick06

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Well, that was pleasant.

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is that bad?

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Day you can't play bully ball without bullies! Lol

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Sweet, I love that pick for him! Laramie is a really fun place for a college student. I hope he kills it there.

Stayed with MSU
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I thought Hollywood was where all the "creative" people were??? Remakes, sequals, books into movies...Do they even have original ideas any more??

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How much more true now than when this was posted in 2006!

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MD Buckeye said:

Congratulations to leroyjenkins for winning the league this season!

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I will make sure to make fun of my friend for failing miserably on the biggest stage. What a loser!

FWIW, I know this is a bump of very old thread; however, if you are currently in the market for a new guitar, be aware there are "fake" ones out there too.

Authorities seize 3,000 fake Gibson guitars in Southern California worth $18 million​

“These guitars may look real to you, but trust and believe they are not,” said Africa Bell, port director for the Los Angeles-Long Beach Seaport.

Thousands of counterfeit Gibson electric guitars were seized in a multi-agency investigation at the Los Angeles-Long Beach Seaport.

The 3,000 fake guitars, if real, would be valued at about $18 million, according to authorities.

“These guitars… may look real to you, but trust and believe they are not,” said Africa Bell, port director for the Los Angeles-Long Beach Seaport. “They are fraudulent, and they are part of a massive attempt to con the American consumer.”

Bell said the fakes were likely destined for the e-commerce market.

At the news conference in Carson, some of the guitars made to resemble products by the legendary guitar-maker were displayed on tables. Others remained in boxes stacked at least 6 feet high inside the warehouse.

Authorities called it the largest counterfeit musical instrument seizure on record.

“This is a big deal,” said attorney Andrea Bates, who represents Gibson Inc. “They were able to facilitate to identify and to seize $18 million worth of counterfeit guitars. This is something that’s incredibly significant. We are thrilled that they have worked with us and helped take these counterfeit guitars off the market.”

Beth Heidt, Gibson’s chief marketing officer, said the fake guitars were easily recognized by experts. They also would be spotted by any professional guitar player familiar with Gibson’s craftsmanship, she said.

HenryMuto said:

Coulnd't watch it was on stupid peacock and forgot it was even on so I just looked at score and play by play that is one awful loss.

UP 4 with 10 seconds left and lose. Got to make your FT's which OSU did not down the stretch.

Inexplicable loss.

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Peacock cut out on us at the end and I couldn't watch the end (turns out fortunately), but I am sick of network apps picking up sporting events and not being able to deliver. And it was not my internet, everything else was working fine. So frustrating.

From what I could tell, Pitt has a pretty damn good team this year. Yes we made mistakes towards the end, but most games that is a win imo. But it is super frustrating because it should have been a win and a good early win for the Tourney resume.

Clear fumble by OR

exhawg said:

Great lakes beachfront. Florida isn't going to disappear into the ocean in the foreseeable future, but it will at some point. I read "The Deluge" a couple of years ago and it's really disturbing how much of it is coming true.

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I read that book since you mentioned it. Thanks for terrifying me!!!

If you score 10 points total in a game and you're going to lose 95% of them. We had the best overall roster in college football, spent $20 million on players, hired an "offensive" guru, had two of the best RBs in the country, had the best overall WR group in the country, and we still only score 10 points against a Michigan defense that was 24th overall.

1926Buckeyes said:

Looks like he does these for most big rivalries. Unfortunately this is probably the worst time to get our opinions on those worthless shits.

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Saturdays are better.

But his mom was the best.