Ball in the Family Podcast with Lonzo & Gelo Ball · Betr

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The hosts say Shedeur Sanders looked calm, and one says he should be starting by week seven or eight.

The crew comes back after two weeks off and says life has been busy. They open with a wild hypothetical about inventing a new animal, settling on a monkey that could teleport and converse. From there, the room keeps stretching the joke before moving into a quick check-in on how everybody is doing. One of them is hungry and eating sushi on mic, which turns into a joke about whether that counts as the first meal of the day. The conversation shifts into how they would raise a son around basketball. They keep returning to fundamentals before flash. Wall sits, lunges, and calf raises come up as the starting point. Defense gets treated like the first real skill. Passing follows that, then shooting. They push back and forth on when a kid should start working on handles and a jumper. Somebody says a son would probably hoop anyway because that is just what happens. Football gets dismissed as a first sport in that line of thought, while baseball comes up as an easier fallback if a kid wants something else. The whole stretch stays grounded in sports, family, and work ethic. Even when the topic drifts, the room keeps pulling it back to the same basic point: build the body, learn the defense, then layer in the rest. It closes with the same loose, teasing energy it opened with.

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Loose Ball-family banter turns sports parenting and fundamentals into an easy hang.

The Ball family keeps this one loose from the jump, starting with a goofy animal-and-teleportation detour before the talk settles into how a young hooper ought to be built.

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For when you want Ball-family hoops banter that starts silly and settles into real talk about teaching a kid to shoot.

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