LaMelo explains grabbing Bam’s leg: “I got hit in the head…” Reporter: “Were you checked for a concussion?” LaMelo: “Me, for a concussion? I don’t think I’ve ever had a concussion, or I might have. I don’t even know how concussions work.”
He really might be the first basketball player with CTE
From his car crashes
He never said when he got hit in the head š¤·
Think teammates knee as he fell backward. Might have been kalkbrenner.
Born with cte
It’s genetic, explains Lavar’s behavior as well
It always amazes me just how different it is to listen to Lonzo talk compared to his father or brothers
Its all downhill after the first born.
All the brain cells, including most of Lavar’s apparently, went into Lonzo’s head, and the rest of the Ball Men had to fight and scrape amongst themselves for like the 8 cells that are still left.
If he couldnāt play basketball he seriously would be in the back of an Amazon warehouse stealing crayons from packages to eat.
Nah he’s a typical 18 year old Marine.
We need to send Ball to the strait of hormuz. Thereās no other way. A third blockade is necessary.
Where them hormuz at - Ball
Just put him in a tank at the border and point him in the direction of the Ayatollah.
He would crash into so much shit
Draft Barron first.
Joke all you want but Iād rather have negations in LaVarās hands than Vanceās
He is that guy asking you to listen to his music that he blasts at max level at a party while other music is playing, asking if he can get a hit on that blunt and he definitely is getting paid tomorrow and can get you back in the morning only you never hear from him again but see him from time to time.
Heās the dude who says āyo you gotta hear thisā and passes you one of the two earbuds, but you really donāt want to do it cause you can literally see the ear wax on the earbud.
So he’d just be eating the crayons direct instead?
The taxpayers would be buying his crayons for him
He just sounds like what the average guy who never paid attention in school sounds like at 18-20 tbh, heād be SOL if he wasnāt good at basketball
nah heās just that stupid
Imagine being so dumb, everyone looks at you like you have brain damage. Yeesh.
They don’t call him Brainrot Magic Johnson for nothing
Lmaoo
I’m 100% convinced that Lamelo can’t read.
Not to just shit on Lamelo, but I’ve seen some candid interviews with Chet Holmgren and he’s not too far ahead of Lamelo in the edu-ma-cation skills. In a tour of his house he pointed to a coffee table book and said, “I like that book and others like it because it’s full of pictures.”
Bro had CTE from birthĀ
https://youtu.be/YLuWurtSOiw
CTE from birth.
*burf
Lamelo is like one of a handful of players where stupidity might be a legit defense. āIām not dirty, Iām just really dumbā.
Nah, how can he have concussions if he doesnāt even know what they are? /s
That’s a 3 syllable word, those are tough for him, just give him a minute, he’ll sound it out eventually
This guy is special šš
What gave it away when he tried to dump mop water on a teammate or that he thinks red lights are decorations?
I think it was his impeccable driving maneuverability on the road
maybe he even listens to that amusement park bumper cars looping theme music
The one ball brother who coulda benefited from playing in college
The one ball brother who coulda benefited from paying attention in kindergarten
The one?
Is Lonzo as braindead as the other two? He doesnāt come off nearly as dumb when Iāve seen him in clips here and there
Lonzo looks like he is able to connect dots in his mind. The other two have something else going on up there
I assume he just means LiAngelo who is also quite brain dead.
Lonzo is pretty smart and articulate actually. It’s a shame injuries ruined his career.
Lonzo comes off as cogent in interviews. Although it would feel odd to call him the brains of the operation.
Imagine getting a group assignment with LaMelo.
lml bll
Highly Regardedā¦
Sct brn has nothing on this guy
Now, when you say “special”…
Can’t get a concussion if you don’t have a brain.
Plot twist: lamelo is actually a super genius and his whole persona is an act solely that he can get away with a flagrant 2 in the first round of the 2026 NBA SoFi Play-In Tournament
Crew chief said the NBA could review the Bam incident and make a decision on LaMelo…. They can do that? Before Play-In Game 2?
You might want to check out the common foul called on Draymond Green in Game 4 of the 2016 NBA Finals. Before Game 5 it was upgraded to a flagrant by the NBA, resulting in a suspension (we all know Draymond is an idiot).
The upgraded flagrant didnāt get him suspended, it was the accumulation of āpointsā in the playoffs. One point for every tech and flagrant iirc.
If only the NBA didnāt reward blatant stupidity
His machinations have laid undetected for YEARS!
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Cena to Brock lesnar vibes haha
“To have a concussion, you need a brain. Chill!”
this guy was born with CTE..
Thatās called shaken baby syndrome
Was his mama throwing that shit back for 9 mos.?
Big baller baby syndrome
Chino Hills Traumatic Encephalopathy
Smart to just say the stupidest fucking shit to draw attention away from his intentionally injuring another player tbh. Smartest move of his career lol
It’s working on me! I went from thinking he did that intentionally to not being sure he can have intentions at all. Not really sure how intentions work.
I don’t even know what intentions are.
He literally tripped Bam in the same fashion in the regular season.
Stupidest shit is basically lameloās middle name. He doesnāt seem like heās faking to me, as he gave no excuses when hitting the other car lol
Using the presidential technique of “flooding the zone” lmao
Lameloās gonna announce the invasion of a middle eastern country any minute now to distract from the Adebayo files
Deni Avdija will tell him which to attack
This dumbass thinking he’s gotta avoid a suspension by saying his recklessness was clearly unintentional because he was actually hit in the head and didn’t even know where he was….. now risking putting himself on concussion protocol….. IF he was telling the truth and IF the NBA wanted to take concussion protocol seriously.
What a funny fucking player.
He did hit his head pretty hard on Bamās knee.
He also shoved Bam on the way down, and seemed to be shoving guys pretty egregiously all night (egregious for the nba, even!)
Ehh, everything looks more intentional in slow motion. In real time that all happened pretty fast, within a second of LaMelo taking an akward fall himself. Doubt it was intentional IMO.
Whose his PR person??
Itās his tattoo artist
Not his driving instructor?
Same guy. A real Renaissance Man.
Hey Pim, I guess the Renaissance Men are coming to town soon.
lol this is the right answer. Iām old but holy fuck these tattoos are absolutely horrible. What the fuck was this kid thinking. He will be spending years lasering this garbage off.
Which part of Lamelo’s career and public persona has made you consider he was thinking at any point?
Probably his dad, LaVar Ball.
Lavar Ball is Lamelo Ball’s Father
Gotta get my tinfoil hat out for this one
The Big Baller Public Relations Department
n e v a l o s t
I’ve never had a PR person. Or maybe I did. I don’t really know how PR works.Ā
Thereās no way he has a PR man and Iām so glad he doesnāt. Every time heās in front of mic itās hilarious
BaMelo Lall
It’s working, everyone in here is just making stupid predictable jokes
the voices in his head, my friend.
When he hears an athlete got a concussion I wonder what he thinks happened š
āThinksā lol
He think? Baby, he donāt think. He know. What is that? Thatās ghetto. He donāt think.
Elite reference.
Shoot you beat me to it lmao
Him, Skattebo and Puka should do a livestream together. 3 peas in a pod
3 peas in a brain
3 peas, one braincell
Add MPJ and Herro and it’d be a goldmine
Is Herro as witless as the other 4?
He thinks the world is flat or something equally stupid
Tbf, there’s probably dozens, even 100s of professional athletes that believe that. It takes much more to be considered one of the dumbest professional athletes, unfortunately. Like, I’m not sure Lamelo even knows the moon landing is a thing, or even what the moon is.
I’ll bet my next paycheck LaMelo thinks the moon landing happened last week
I didn’t look into the context/sources but there are articles stating he believes flat Earth, moon landing was fake, and history before the 1950s was fake.
Thinking pre-50s history is fake is fucking hilarious š how the fuck do you fabricate wars
And we’re surrounded by people who were alive in the 1940’s lmao, just talk to them.
3 brain cells fighting for 4th place.
Drop Gronk in there like the one eyed man in the kingdom of the blind.
Ayyyy gronk is a different kind of stupid, leave him outta this lmao
Skat seems like a more benign idiot than the other two, at least for now.
They can hire Ernie Johnson and call it 4 dudes 1 mind.
Theyāve gone for the insanity stupidity plea and itās gonna work lmao
Your honor, my client is clearly too stupid to stand trial or understand the consequences of his actions šØāāļø
Judge looks over to see Ball, latching and unlatching a briefcase with CHILDLIKE WONDER.
This made me laugh.
Someone needs to write streaming series based on this guy.
Learned from dad
āWhy the hell would I do that? You guys paint me some idiot or something, cmon I got more sense than thatā¦ Yea I remember grabbing his ankle to make sure he fell hella hardā
Unfortunately it’s Bam crawling away with mangled legs instead of Melo in this situation. “LaMelo Ball… my legs!!”
āThey shouldāve never extended your contract!ā
FUCK YO COUCH
Charlie Murphy !!
āYou knew you was wrong when you grabbed my legā
āThat was weeks ago!ā
Amazing
C.caine is hell of a drug
You can type the word cocaine out without fear here
COLDBLOODED!!
F*CK YO TAILBONE!
Concussion means that brain was shaked, so LaMelo is safe
His brain has never been shaken, but definitely stirred. Maybe. I donāt know how brains work, nor vodka martinis.
I need to know the last year his reading level was on grade
Pre K
He didnt go to highschool to play school.
Went to school high
Didnāt Lonzo say he canāt read?Ā
Shout out Chino Hills High School
There’s a lot to hate about the public education system. But I think not being able to read is LaMelo’s fault lol
With that answer concussion confirmed.
A lot of concussiona
If he was short growing up, he would be put in the special needs program in school. Hes lucky he was tall and gifted at basketball
The special needs program is basically just every college/sports high schools athletics course list.Ā
Cant stand this guy
Dude would be homeless if he couldn’t ball
a rich spoiled kid from Cali would be homeless if he couldnt play basketball, hilarious
āGood things just bad happenā ā Lamelo
Only good can happen not bad
Lamelo literally has no brain oh my goodness
I don’t even know how concussions work is actually so funny but true.Ā
The only time he has something on his mind is when he wears a hat.
The Puka Nacua of the NBA?
The part about him not knowing what a concussion is or feels like isn’t controversial. Don’t think most people could say exactly what it is beyond maybe “getting knocked out or getting hit hard and becoming confused, shaky, etc”
Outside of debating intentionality, I’ve had like 5 and couldn’t tell you lol. Confused, uncoordinated. Maybe a little burst of fuzz right after the initial hit.
Mostly just being somewhere else 10 minutes later and being like “I just realized I don’t know what’s going on lol”
Sounds like a 10th grade drop out
How many illiterate 10th graders u think came out of chino hillsā¦kid is special in the special-est sense
This quote is like something Beetlejuice Green would say
LaMelo seems like the type of dude that would invest in NFTs in 2026
This is why you go to school folks !
so he is as dumb as he looks.
LaMelo is pretty much the outcome I would expect if I replaced a standard elementary to middle school curriculum with basketball.
The crazy thing about LaMelo is you know heās probably had plenty of media training and this is still the end product
when you allocate no INT stats and all in DEX and bit of STR
I know Michigan in Detroitā¦.
Brain rot magic johnson is on one
BIG BALLER BRAND
Dumbest player on NBA history
This is like that coach who had to prove he was just bad at his job to show he wasn’t guilty of tanking. The mush-for-brains excuse.
It’s still wild he’s allowed to drive a vehicle.
Yea but you canāt fix stupid.
this dude ain’t bright
Not buying this, its the 2nd time hes done this to try to injure Bam. He knows what hes doing and tryinf to play it off
Suspend him
Somebody needs to kick this kidās ass.. heās way too reckless.
Fuck this guy
This man really is a strong contender for dumbest player of all time… Like who even comes close? š
TIL that “getting hit in the head” makes you identify the ankle of the best opposing team’s player, intentionally grab that ankle and trip them so that you have an advantage in a play-in game.
“Getting hit in the head” is the new Chewbacca defense.
LaMelo might be the dumbest motherfucker to ever touch a basketball
What a complete and utter dipshit.
Itās not like he had any brain cells left to lose
He has a continous concussion
Being this stupid makes it everyone elseās problem. Overprivileged shithead
He got hit in the head at birth
LaGenius š¤”
” we’re still in the process to figure out if I have a brain or not”
All flash, still trash
The ātoo dumb to be dirtyā defense. Interesting
Lol, he might be the dumbest basketball player ever.
He might have the lowest IQ in the history of the NBA.
You got hit in a head so you go grab other people leg not covering your head?
Thank God this dude can play basketball otherwise he would have no hope haha
I’d love if we stopped glorifying guys like this and intervened with some education.
Edit: because clarification seems to be needed, I am talking about health/safety education. And if added context is needed as well, clearly we have an issue with star athletes across the board having semi-ignorant (not malicious, the literal meaning of ignorant) statements about concussions/CTE, and it’d be great if the sports took it a bit more serious, invested in some education, and turned some of these conversations into more conscious/intentional discussion that would have a positive influence on young athletes, instead of making a joke of it having the opposite influence. It’s not a moral failing of this player. He literally says he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. It’d be great if that wasn’t just made into a joke.
Dude thinks the NBA should only accept scholars and that basketball doesnāt matter.
What in this clip makes you think heās stupid other than following the narrative that Reddit tells you? He said he doesnāt know how concussions work. Do you? Do you know exactly how concussions affect the brain? I donāt. Most people donāt know anything about concussions other than that itās a serious head injury. If Payton Prichard said this no one would say that he needs education. Yall only say this shit about black players.
He has a high school degree and thatās the same amount of education that the majority of Americans have. Heās been educated
You seem to have understood what I meant by educating him (about concussion and head injury dangers and safety) in the middle there, but then for some reason decided to try to dunk on me about education in general??
I think you’ve made a funny ish comment and people have liked it, but you’ve kinda just taken that and run with it in a direction I never went.
And I’d probably not care if you hadn’t suggested I was calling him stupid because he was black. You’ve run with your own interpretation and then applied several assumptions about me with your interpretation, and while I’d argue you’re wrong with pretty much all of it, I wouldn’t necessarily have a problem with any of it personally if you hadn’t tried to label me racist.
I think everyone can acknowledge that often there is a narrative about education and black athletes. I don’t think I gave you any reason to assume that in the short comment I made. I don’t think you can read my statement (that even if some people don’t understand exactly what is meant, others do, with the context) and jump to that conclusion honestly or even half confidently. I’d say that might be because you didn’t get what I was saying when I said to educate him, but you seemed to in the middle of your comment. So this feels like you’re ranting at me over a topic you’re passionate about (and fairly so, I agree with your perspective about that), but you’ve unfairly applied to me.
His baseline cognition is so low that a concussion test doesn’t reveal differences
Room temperature IQ
Christ this guy is embarrassing.
The guy who said you didnt need achool not knowing what a concussion is, classic moron.Ā
Lavar put all of LaMeloās attribute points in jacking up shots instead of intelligence.
I guarantee this dudeās search history says āwhere to buy a concussion?ā
4 years of college with a passing GPA should be a requirement
You’d think LaMelo of all people would be familiar with concussions, if not from basketball from the car accidents
If you can’t beat your opponent good player, just injured them… - LaMelo Ball