When you were 16-years-old, odds are you were locked in your basement waiting for your crush to sign onto AIM Instant Messenger. There was nothing like that open door sound coupled with the bold text of the screen name. It’s a shame the children of the next generation will never experience that joy. Point is, if you were like me when you were 16, you were a pimple-faced loser. I’m still a loser 15 years later, but my skin is clear. Hashtag winning.
LaMelo Ball’s life at 16 was a bit different than mine. LaMelo dropped out of high school to travel the country with the Junior Basketball Association’s Los Angeles Ballers. Ball found himself in a hotel room while traveling with the Ballers and appears to have invited a JBA groupie (I never thought I’d type that phrase) over for some Scrabble. Evidently, the young girl didn’t learn a lesson from the girl who snapped a photo of Julian Edelman sleeping in his hotel room. That girl is now “banned” from Boston for outing the Patriots wideout.
The girl, who goes by the name Elsie, shared a photo on Snapchat of LaMelo scrolling on his phone on a hotel room bed. Twitter user @LakeShowYo took a screen shot of the photo and posted it to his account.
https://twitter.com/Gavo1K/status/1020704697173397505
That’s when things got lit.
yall she fr threatening to call the cops, can i get in trouble for this idk 😭 pic.twitter.com/VWzzjsjxxd
— LakeShowYo (@LakeShowYo) July 22, 2018
bout to go swimmin ill keep u guys updated if the cops raid my house 😤🤙🏼 pic.twitter.com/u8qPYargmm
— LakeShowYo (@LakeShowYo) July 22, 2018
yall they just showed up and i blamed it on my lil bro LMAOO thats what he get for forgettin to record the Lakers Summer League championship 😤😂 pic.twitter.com/fWARiacyHT
— LakeShowYo (@LakeShowYo) July 22, 2018
okay so turns out the cops were chill and one was a huge Lakers fan. We gucci now and my bro got some stickers from the officer. ✊🏽 pic.twitter.com/6Cp5TjNN9c
— LakeShowYo (@LakeShowYo) July 22, 2018
A Twitter user did some investigative journalism and found out that the girl was never in the hotel room, but took the photo from someone else’s Instagram account for “clout.”
That was from his homies insta and that chick took it and put it on her snapchat story for clout. Fake news @MELOD1P
— . (@SVLK0) July 22, 2018
she screenshotted it from ig, which put it on her camera roll then added the caption on snap and posted it on her story 😭
— Tati-Anna Robinson (@RealTaterz) July 22, 2018
LaMelo eventually chimed in:
https://twitter.com/MELOD1P/status/1021366060329701377
They tryna put an L on me 😂 https://t.co/Ub2ByCkTna
— Melo (@MELOD1P) July 22, 2018
Goddamn millennials! GET OFF MY LAWN.
[h/t Total Pro Sports]