The LA entrepreneur suffered from a foot infection due to diabetes that escalated into leg amputation in January – his wife Tina was also a basketball player, and the pair met at Cal State Athletic apparel company Big Baller Brand “BBB” CEO and Ball in the Family star LaVar Ball, father of Chicago Bulls’ Lonzo Ball, Charlotte Hornets’ LaMelo Ball, and rapper LiAngelo, recently had his leg amputated. In an interview with Slam, the 57-year-old businessman revealed that a foot infection turned into a dangerous affliction when it reached his bloodstream because he hadn’t taken his diabetes seriously. Advertisement “First, they cut off a couple of toes.
Then they cut off my foot. Then they said, We gotta go almost knee high for another surgery,” he recalled, before admitting that the procedures, paired with multiple blood transfusions, took a toll on his mental health . “It made me think, ‘Man, just kill me and let me go about my business.
’” However, his sons “kept [him] rolling” and now, he’s advocating for diabetes awareness. Ball once said on ESPN’s First Take that he could go head-to-head with NBA legend Michael Jordan and beat him – and declared his son Lonzo a better player than four-time NBA champion Steph Curry, but he refused to thank Donald Trump for helping bail LiAngelo out when he got caught shoplifting in China in 2017, per Forbes. So what do we know about the controversial LA entrepreneur? What’s his background? {"@context":"https.
