Lonzo Ball improves NBA Draft stock with Father’s Day Foot Locker spot (Video)

Foot Locker did an ad involving some of the best prospects entering the 2017 NBA Draft. Nobody did more for his draft stock than UCLA guard Lonzo Ball.

Father’s Day is on Sunday, June 18. The Thursday after that will be the 2017 NBA Draft. It should be an exciting week for some of the best 19-year-old basketball players in the world. Foot Locker put out a really cool spot about some of the NBA Draft’s top prospects and what they remember about dad. Of course, former UCLA Bruins point guard Lonzo Ball stole the show.

Overall, there were four lottery picks in that advertisement: Ball, former Kentucky Wildcats point guard De’Aaron Fox, former Florida State Seminoles forward Jonathan Isaac, and former Duke Blue Devils forward Jayson Tatum.

While Fox, Isaac, and Tatum’s comments about their fathers were a little more appreciative and reserve, Ball had the time of his life poking his outspoken dad LaVar Ball in the ribs on this advertisement. It had to have done wonders for his NBA Draft stock.

Ball talked about how his father is alienating him from playing for every team in the league but the Los Angeles Lakers, starting their own shoe company, getting high school coaches fired, the usual.

So what if Tatum’s dad went fishing with him? He’s not part of the Big Baller Brand. It is a lifestyle choice of overconfidence and immense swagger. Ball may not have had the best two-day meeting with the Lakers, but this Foot Locker ad almost single-handedly transformed his draft stock.

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He projects at the No. 2 prospect on many teams’ boards. Ball could go as high as No. 1 overall to the Boston Celtics and there is almost no way he falls past either the Phoenix Suns at No. 4 or the Sacramento Kings at No. 5. Father’s Day should be great in the Ball household, but it’s all about Thursday night at the Barclays Center.