LaVar Ball has been surprisingly quiet throughout the month of August. Outside of taking a couple shots at Michael Jordan and taking part in a shooting contest with Ice Cube at a Big3 event, the Ball family patriarch has more or less stayed out of the spotlight. But that’s all about to change.
Ball managed to score a deal with Facebook back in June that would allow him to produce a reality show called Ball in the Family, and it appears we're only one day away from seeing the premiere episode and a follow-up. The Balls just released the trailer for the show, and announced that the first two episodes will be made available on Thursday, Aug. 31 through Watch, the new Facebook platform that will allow users to watch longer, episodic content. After that, new episodes of Ball in the Family will be available every Sunday beginning on Sept. 10.
Judging by the trailer, this isn’t some budget reality show, either. LaVar, his wife Tina, and his three sons Lonzo, LiAngelo, and LaMelo teamed up with Bunim/Murray Productions—the producers behind reality hits like The Real World and Keeping Up With the Kardashians—to put together what looks like a pretty entertaining project. In the clip above, you can see everything from LaVar going off on LaMelo for not taking an AAU game seriously enough, to Lonzo talking with his girlfriend Denise Garcia about how their lives are going to change now that he’s in the NBA, to LaVar working with his wife as she rehabilitates from a stroke.
"We wanted to give our fans an unfiltered look into our lives and show them a side of us that isn’t typically seen," LaVar said in a statement issued on Wednesday.
Seeing as how LaVar and his family have literally been everywhere this summer, it seems unlikely that we’re going to see anything that surprises us too much; the Balls’ lives have already been broadcast on a wide scale. But you could say the same thing about the Kardashians, and yet, their reality show continues to be a hit. So we’d expect a similar response to this show once it starts airing.
