A new series of commercials being released today by Foot Locker feature the stars of the NBA draft getting roasted.
Well, “stars”.
Because the commercial that is going to get the most play is of LiAngelo Ball, who never actually played in college. Ball, if you remember, was arrested for shoplifting while his UCLA team was on a trip to China. He was eventually dismissed from the program and ended up playing for a year in Lithuania before entering the NBA draft.
And, well, they touch on all of that in this commercial:
The other player to get roasted was Trae Young, who was a sensation for the first half of the college basketball season before a dreadful finish saw him losing 12 of his last 16 games. It was ugly, and Foot Locker made sure to remind him of it:
I appreciate the effort here from Foot Locker, but I have to say that these just are not all that funny.