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The war of words between the Ball family and Donald Trump wages on. 
  
 LiAngelo Ball and his father LaVar appeared on "The Breakfast Club" Wednesday morning and the former UCLA player said the university forced him to thank Trump for his release from China. LiAngelo was arrested along with two other UCLA teammates for shoplifting while overseas. 
  
 "If they didn't tell me to do it, it wouldn't have been in there," LiAngelo Ball said. 
  
 Ball returned home with teammates Cody Riley and Jalen Hill in November after they were briefly detained in China for their crime. Trump claimed that he asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to let the boys go and tweeted angrily after he wasn't thanked quickly enough. 
  
 LaMelo, LiAngelo Ball sign 1-year deals with Lithuanian pro team 
  
 Do you think the three UCLA Basketball Players will say thank you President Trump? They were headed for 10 years in jail! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2017 
  
 A press conference was held for the three players when they returned to the U.S., and LiAngelo did have a message for Trump. 
  
 "I'd also like to thank President Trump and the United States government for the help that they provided as well," LiAngelo said in the press conference. 
  
 LaVar would go on to further escalate the situation with Trump by questioning whether or not Trump actually did anything to help his son. This made Trump fire off another tweet saying he should've left the boys in jail back in China. 
  
 UCLA suspended LiAngelo and the other players involved indefinitely following the incident, but LaVar ended up pulling his son out of the school. 
  
 LaVar Ball says LiAngelo and LaMelo have signed with agent 
  
 LiAngelo Ball will now be playing basketball in Lithuania after being pulled out of UCLA following his indefinite suspension. (Jae C. Hong/AP) 
  
 LiAngelo will now play overseas in Lithuania along with his younger brother LaMelo Ball. The two both signed one-year deals with Prienu Vytautas. 
  
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 LiAngelo Ball's career at UCLA ended after one exhibition game, an arrest in China and an indefinite suspension. 
  
 Upon his return to Los Angeles, Ball and his suspended teammates Cody Riley and Jalen Hill held a press conference where they offered a public apology and also thanked President Donald Trump for his role in the players' return to the U.S. 
  
 According to Ball, that thank you to Trump only occurred because UCLA told him to include it in his speech. Ball spoke about that press conference in an appearance with LaVar Ball on The Breakfast Club. The exchange starts around the 25:45 mark. 
  
 LiAngelo said: 
  
 "They wanted to hear that, and he tweeted about it before my speech so I had to add it in there right before I gave it." 
  
 He continued: 
  
 "My school wanted to hear it too. Before I went up there, it's like, 'You gotta thank him.' I just threw him in there real quick before I gave my speech." 
  
 When asked if he would have thanked Trump having known he was going to leave UCLA for Lithuania, LiAngelo added: 
  
 "No. If they didn't want me to do it. If they didn't tell me to do it, it wouldn't have been in there, to be honest." 
  
 Trump had tweeted before the press conference to request an apology from the UCLA players. 
  
 Do you think the three UCLA Basketball Players will say thank you President Trump? They were headed for 10 years in jail! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2017 
  
 Though LiAngelo did thank Trump, LaVar Ball refused to, which ignited a feud between the outlandish father and Trump. 
  
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 Prienai, Lithuania, is a far cry from Chino Hills, California. But for LaVar Ball and his sons, LiAngelo and LaMelo, ball is life, or, well, business. 
  
 Former American players say the rural Lithuanian town where the two teens have signed to play is like living on a farm. No restaurants, no malls, but hey, no traffic congestion. Players stay at the Royal SPA Residence in Birstonas, 10 minutes from the arena. 
  
 "You can count on one hand the amount of street lights in that city," said veteran American pro player Billy Baron, who spent his rookie season in Europe at Rytas Vilnius for the man who will be the Ball brothers' new coach, Virginijus Seskus. "There is nothing to do in that place. It's the ultimate life of going to practice and back to the hotel." 
  
 In Lithuania, little will seem familiar to the Ball brothers, but their new patriarch might resemble someone familiar. Seskus, also the unofficial general manager of the Balls' new team, Prienai Vytautas, has almost free rein to run the club as he sees fit. He took the club from the Lithuanian minor league to the major domestic league, the LKL, and "he's like a God out there," according to one prominent European agent. 
  
 Seskus sports an unpredictable temper, according to his former players. He ditches practices early, sometimes has his teams play soccer instead of training and has pulled his players off the court mid-game, a tactic LaVar Ball used in an AAU game over the summer. 
  
 "Virginijus Seskus is crazy," said one of his former players, Mike Moser, a one-time All-American honorable mention at UNLV who spent a season with Seskus in Vilnius. "I'm trying to erase that year from my memory. I've been around the world—Lithuania, Israel, Kosovo, Italy and Qatar—I had good coaches; he wasn't one of them. I don't care if you're a rookie or a vet, he's hard to play for. 
  
 "He used to get so mad and kick balls in practice. He was always yelling and cursing for no reason, even at the locals. If he coaches the same, those boys LiAngelo and LaMelo will be home within a month." 
  
 Baron, a recent gold medalist for Jeff Van Gundy and Team USA at the FIBA Americup, recalled: "We'd come out to the parking lot after practices, and Coach was there selling meat to players out of the trunk of his car. Some players actually bought that stuff from him." 
  
 The language barrier could make life even more complicated for the Balls if their experience is similar to that of former Americans who have played for Seskus. He doesn't speak English, and his former players noted he doesn't make any attempts. 
  
 The club's sports director, Adomas Kubilius, is not concerned. 
  
 "The assistant coach and the other players will help him," Kubilius told Lithuanian basketball writer Donatas Urbonas. 
  
 After talking to more than a dozen people who have come in contact with the club, an even more troubling picture of the team takes shape. It's been behind on multiple checks and salaries to agents and players both this season and many before. 
  
 This past offseason, former Vanderbilt guard Bradley Tinsley became Vytautas' first American signing in over a decade, but he was out a month into the season after averaging just 7.1 points and 2.1 assists per game in the LKL. When reached by B/R for comment about the coach and club, Tinsley declined because he is still owed money from the team and doesn't want to say anything that could jeopardize that. 
  
 Money issues may not be a concern for the Balls, say sources, who believe the brothers signed for free, without earning players' salaries. 
  
 The Balls will be the lone Americans on the team, but they aren't expected to play in the LKL. 
  
 "We will have to see about the LKL and whether they are good enough to play in that league," Kubilius said. 
  
 Indeed, Seskus told B/R through a translator, "I never saw them play. Didn't watch videos." Rather, Harrison Gaines, the Balls' representative, submitted terms of guaranteed minutes and an automatic car without gears. The deal, signed through June, includes a mutual out clause in February, one month after the Balls' arrival, should either side feel necessary to end the partnership. 
  
 Kubilius made clear that signing the Balls has less to do with basketball than marketing. Kubilius hopes to sell jersey advertisements for €50,000. 
  
 "That is one of our goals," he told the league site. 
  
 Teammates also see "off-court" opportunities with the arrival of the Balls. Tomas Dimsa, a 6'6" forward, is auctioning off his season membership to games on his Facebook page. His 6'8" teammate in the frontcourt, Justas Sinica, responded to the post, saying the auction begins Dec. 31 at €1,000 per game. ("It's now worth €10,000," said an agent who has a client on that team.) 
  
 David Pick 
  
 David Pick 
  
 While the NBA is a long, improbable road for someone hooping in Lithuania, the country does have a rich history of developing talent for the NBA. Several former NBA players of Lithuanian origin have made the jump: recent Knicks forward Mindaugas Kuzminskas, Houston/New Orleans forward Donatas Motiejunas, Sarunas Jasikevicius, Linas Kleiza, European legend Arvydas Sabonis and son Domantas Sabonis, currently with the Indiana Pacers. But only two players have made the jump directly from the LKL to the NBA: Jonas Valanciunas, who was drafted from Rytas Vilnius to Toronto in 2011 (though he didn't arrive until 2012 after he was stashed for a season), and Zydrunas Ilgauskas from Atletas Kaunas to Cleveland in 1996. 
  
 But the NBA is not where the Balls are headed right now. What awaits them in Lithuania is an experience somewhat similar to a college atmosphere, assuming they live among their teammates. At their residence, players each have their own "junior apartments" that are provided free of charge thanks to a partnership agreement between the team and the resort. Meals aren't free, however. Breakfast costs €5, while lunch and dinner are €8. 
  
 And winning over their teammates may not be as easy as walking into the locker room with a famous name. 
  
 "It's going to be a different type of basketball with the Balls," Vytautas' top scorer, Eigirdas Zukauskas, told B/R. "For us, it's more than a game, so it doesn't matter if we signed the Balls or LeBron James. Maybe I'll change my mind once I see them, but at the moment, I'm not really thinking about them. I saw LaMelo's videos, but I haven't seen him playing against men. He will get an opportunity here to show us his worth." 
  
 Players aren't unaware of why the Balls are on the way. 
  
 "Signing them is a publicity stunt for sure, and it's working," Baron said. "The Balls are on SportsCenter, but I'm here laughing because I know exactly what's waiting for them on the other side. When LaMelo gets hit with one of those screens, he might not be able to stand up. Those guys are bangers, Lithuanians play like it's a UFC match. ... If Vegas put a line on the Balls' over-under in Lithuania, I think they'd break it off after a month. Maybe it does work, I'm not hating on the kids, but the odds are stacked against them." 
  
 All quotes were obtained firsthand unless otherwise noted. 
  
 David Pick is a veteran pro basketball reporter covering overseas hoops and American players abroad since 2010. Follow him on Twitter: @IAmDPick. |||||
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Former UCLA basketball player LiAngelo Ball says he wouldn't have thanked President Trump following his shoplifting arrest in China had UCLA not asked him to do so, USA Today reports. "They wanted to hear that, and he tweeted about it before my speech so I had to add it in there right before I gave it," Ball says. "Before I went up there, it's like, 'You gotta thank him.' I just threw him in there real quick before I gave my speech." According to the New York Daily News, Ball addressed the issue Wednesday during an appearance on The Breakfast Club. Trump said he interceded on behalf of Ball and two other players, and they thanked him during a press conference after he tweeted: "Do you think the three UCLA Basketball Players will say thank you President Trump? They were headed for 10 years in jail!" Following his indefinite suspension from UCLA, LiAngelo Ball's father, LaVar Ball, pulled him out of the school and is sending him and his brother LaMelo Ball to play professionally for Prienai Vytautas in Prienai, Lithuania. Bleacher Report looks at what the Balls are "getting themselves into." Other Americans who have played in Lithuania say it's "like living on a farm" and that the brothers will be playing for a coach who is "crazy," doesn't speak English, and has been known to sell players meat out of the trunk of his car after practice. "Those boys LiAngelo and LaMelo will be home within a month," one player says. Meanwhile, it sounds like the brothers won't be earning a paycheck in Lithuania, instead being compensated through guaranteed playing time and a car. It seems like all sides recognize the situation is a "publicity stunt" to get attention and sell jerseys.