https://sports.yahoo.com/liangelo-ball-china-shoplifting-left-thinking-well-get-away-152749579.html

embarrassing for the US - no apology to China from the Ball kid. And yes he's still a kid.

“We all went out one night, went to the malls, went to the Louis Vuitton store,” he told “The Today Show” on Tuesday morning. “People started taking stuff. Me just not thinking and being with them, I started taking stuff too.”
It wasn’t until later that Ball realized he’d made a serious error in judgment: “We left thinking we’ll just get away. You know how kids think,” he said. “I didn’t realize till I got back to the hotel—‘that was stupid.’”

There must been some kind of exchange Trump did to get him out of prison. Maybe that's why iPhone Xs are so expensive? The irony is that if the Big Baller Brand products are made in China!

I'm super conflicted about this because:

1) The players should serve any time they deserve for stealing because they are probably treated special their entire lives and get away with lots of stuff.  So letting they go shows them they don't have to change

2) Trump did put in a good word, so it shows his power and China willing to cooperate right away vs. Obama leaving Otto in N. Korea, that girl in Syria, etc...

3) It proves he isn't racist and would have left 3 black guys in China if he were

4) It would show these 3 guys what true oppression is (China prison system) so they don't complain once they're released years later.  I'm sure at least they, or their family members are BLM activist.  Try talking crap to a Chinese police officer and see what happens.

Dey wuz good boyz! Dey don't deserve to be treated li'dat.

This might had been a good thing for UCLA, Lavar Ball has pulled his son from school and I'm guessing the youngest one won"t go. The Circus will have to find another school to host them.

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/21675931/the-ball-family-run-ucla-appears-over