LaMelo Ball’s move to Minnesota is already making noise, and it’s not just because of the basketball fit.
Ball just wrapped up his sixth season with the Charlotte Hornets, putting together a healthy run by his standards and posting 20.1 points, 7.1 assists and 4.8 rebounds across 72 games. Even with that bounce-back year, Charlotte dealt him to the Timberwolves in a package that sent Ball and Josh Green to Minnesota in exchange for Naz Reid and a heavy haul of draft picks.
Now he’s set to team with Anthony Edwards in a reshaped Timberwolves backcourt, but Ball’s arrival has also been announced in true LaMelo fashion: with a car that looks built to go viral.
A video shared by NBACentral on X, captioned "LaMelo's new Cybertruck has hit the streets of Minnesota," shows Ball cruising around town in a fully customized Tesla Cybertruck. The truck is anything but stock.
It has a matte black wrap, custom red wheels, red underglow lights and his "LF" logo on the back panel. The inside keeps the same look, with red custom seats, matching LED dash lights and branded floor mats.
Fans jumped on it immediately.
One wrote, "That thing looks like it drove straight out of a video game, the wheel wells alone are unreal."
Another added, "LaMelo really treats every arrival like a video game cutscene."
A third joked, "At least somebody will get ran over in a cool car."
The fourth viewer penned, "14-year-old Elon stans everywhere are losing their minds."
And if that wasn’t enough, the Cybertruck isn’t even the only new ride Ball has shown off since landing in town. Just days earlier, he was seen with a matte all-black Mercedes-AMG G-Wagon that also carries his "LF" logo embroidered on the headrests and custom blacked-out wheels.
That joins a long list of eye-popping vehicles already tied to Ball, including a neon yellow Rolls-Royce Cullinan, an all-red Lamborghini Urus and a bright yellow Ferrari F8 Tributo supercar.
So while Minnesota waits to see how the new-look roster performs when training camp starts, Ball has already made one thing clear: his car collection is coming with him.
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