LaVar Ball to pull LaMelo out of school, calls coaches 'knuckleheads'

Big Ballers apparently don't need high school.

LaVar Ball told the Los Angeles Times' Eric Sondheimer that he is pulling his 16-year-old son LaMelo out of Chino Hills High School in suburban L.A. and will home-school him for the next two years.

It's presumed LaMelo will continue to compete on his father's Big Ballers AAU squad, although that won't happen until the spring.

"I'm going to make him the best basketball player ever," the senior Ball told Sondheimer. "It's good for Melo. Less distractions. He just needs to focus."

Ball also slammed Chino Hills' new coach, Dennis Lattimore.

"It's a new coach and I don't like him one bit," Ball told ESPN's Ramona Shelburne. "(LaMelo) doesn't have to be dealing with those knuckleheads."

LaMelo, currently ranked seventh in the 2019 ESPN 100, scored 92 points for Chino Hills in a game last season. His brothers Lonzo and LiAngelo also attended the school, and like them, LaMelo is committed to UCLA.