On Friday evening before the Los Angeles Lakers host the Brooklyn Nets, Ramona Shelburne and Paula Lavigne of ESPN released a sprawling report detailing how Lonzo Ball had to cut ties with Alan Foster, a co-founder of Big Baller Brand and family friend who is accused of having “not adequately accounted for the whereabouts of roughly $1.5 million from Ball’s personal and business accounts.”
That’s obviously a horrible situation for Ball and his family, and the story is a stunning and thorough piece of journalism worth reading in its entirety, with nuggets like Ball being informed of Foster’s criminal history by ESPN, and that Foster was part of the reason that Ball opted to create his own signature shoe with Big Baller Brand rather than sign with an established shoe company.