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LiAngelo Robert "Gelo" Ball (born November 24, 1998) is an American former professional basketball player and rapper currently signed to Def Jam Recordings. He is the second son of Big Baller Brand founder LaVar Ball and brother to NBA guards Lonzo and LaMelo Ball.
While a junior at Chino Hills High School in Chino Hills, California, Ball won a state championship alongside his brothers – all three achieved celebrity status through their family's Facebook Watch reality show Ball in the Family. Having become a three-star recruit and UCLA signee, a 2017 suspension for shoplifting led him to forgo college basketball. Instead, he joined Lithuanian professional team Prienai alongside LaMelo and played in the Junior Basketball Association (JBA), a league founded by his father, before entering the NBA G League at the end of the 2019–20 season.
Ball was briefly on the Detroit Pistons roster in late 2020, but was waived prior to the start of the 2020–21 season. He then signed for the Greensboro Swarm, the satellite team of LaMelo's Charlotte Hornets, in 2021 – another hiatus and a brief tenure on CIBACOPA side Astros de Jalisco followed. Afterwards, Ball ventured into hip hop music with the stage name GELO, releasing his debut single "Tweaker" in 2025 that charted in several countries, and then agreeing to a multi-million dollar record deal with Def Jam. He confirmed his full retirement from basketball in August 2025.
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