ORANGE, Calif. — Coach LaVar Ball took it on the chin Saturday. Ball’s AAU basketball team — the Big Ballers, which feature his son LaMelo, a high school star from Chino Hills — lost 109 ...

Weighing 65 pounds, and spanning 3½ feet across with a circumference of 11 feet, his giant wooden basketball is 4½ times larger than a regulation ball. The idea came to him while on a stroll.