Posted on 11/07/2017 9:03:31 PM PST by tcrlaf
Three UCLA basketball players were arrested Tuesday for shoplifting in China, according to ESPN.
LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill were arrested and are being questioned about stealing from a Louis Vuitton store, reported ESPN college basketball’s Jeff Goodman. The UCLA men’s basketball team, which had been staying in Hangzhou, is set to open its regular season against Georgia Tech in Shanghai on Friday.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which covers Georgia Tech Athletics, reported Tuesday morning that local police were called to the Hangzhou hotel where UCLA and Georgia Tech players were staying to investigate an unknown matter.
Police spoke to multiple players from both teams and inspected bus cargo compartments before arresting Ball, Riley and Hill. One source told Goodman that UCLA players were seen getting into a police vehicle around 1 p.m. local time.
UCLA Athletics said in a statement the university is cooperating with Chinese authorities and did not provide further comment.
The game in China is part of a Pac-12 initiative to expand its outreach internationally. Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said the conference was directing all questions related to the incident to UCLA.
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Ball's father was quoted by ESPN as saying, " no big thing, They making it out to be bigger than it is.".
What part of YOU IN CHINA, STUPID, do they not understand? The Chinese do not care if you are from an NBA family.
Hood behavior overseas goes over so well.
Should have borrowed some money from his brother.
Interesting to see how this will play out. I assume some money will be paid to various officials and China will let him walk with a slap on the wrist to avoid bad publicity as well.
But ... the dad is such a jerk. Maybe it’d teach the kid a lesson to stay in a Chinese jail for a year or two. Maybe the NBA fans will learn taking a knee complaining about the U.S. is stupid. Lucky to be here.
I guess they never watched locked up abroad?
Adios, Mofos.
If they had been in Singapore instead, they’d have a whole hell of a lot to be worried about. They cane you there just for spitting in the street. For stealing you would get your ass torn to shreds down to the bone. That’s why they have a very courteous society and no problems with crime or trespass or illegal aliens. Not to mention a beautiful clean city with no litter or graffiti. But our “betters” here in the West taught us long ago that permissiveness was a sacrament, and that those things that they have in Singapore don’t really matter anymore.
They couldn’t wait to shoplift until they got home?
Thanks for embarrassing the country. And with The President over in that part of the world right now.
For many Chinese, this simply reinforces there belief about most American Blacks.
I hope they get the book thrown at them-———entitled jerks.
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Hope they all rot in prison.
Yeah, the US will basically be forced to bail out these miscreants and get them out of hot water, because otherwise, racism to let them rot there.
They are about to find out, in the worst way possible, what REAL racism is. The Han are VERY racist.
Somehow I doubt Lew Alcinder would have behaved thusly.
Do not like his politics, but he is a smart and classy man.
John Wooden would have instantly cut them from the team, and laughed when asked if the university would bail them out.
Wonder if UCLA will see the light re: doing business with “one and done” athletes....UCLA is starting to look like fools.
Just think, in a muslim country they would cut off their hand
and there ain't no "hoops" loving dindu bastard from Kenya living in the White House
Very familiar with Singapore. Michael Fay grew up in my hometown of Kettering Ohio and was two years behind me in school. His caning occurred when I was in The Marines
Ball leads the country in steals.
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