Lonzo Ball Opens Up About Split From Former Business Manager Alan Foster On ‘The Shop’: ”Sh*t Didn’t Start Happening Until My Mom Got Sick”

Los Angeles Lakers Star Lonzo Ball had to juggle a lot in his first few years in the NBA, between his mother’s stroke and recovery, his daughter’s arrival, his father’s Big Baller Brand and his multi-million dollar fortune. During that time, family friend, co-founder of BBB and Ball Family business manager, Alan Foster, was at the head of his affairs and also reportedly orchestrated a plot to steal nearly $2 million from the brand.

Lonzo cut ties with Foster in March. In April, he and his family’s company sued Foster for damages of at least $2 million, asserting that Foster defrauded Ball, misled him and mismanaged his funds. The FBI began investigating Foster’s role with the Ball family in February, according to law enforcement sources.

During the latest episode of Lebron James’ HBO series ‘The Shop,’ Ball opened up about how Foster’s betrayal led to an epiphany. He said, “Yo, you gotta start taking control, because now I’m not just doing sh*t for me, or my mom and my dad — who I love — but I’ve got to look out for a little one that’s mine. That I brought into the world.’ So I mean, when she was born, I started thinking about it, and then just everything that happened recently with Alan and everything, that’s what kind of woke me up.”

Ball continued, “I’ve known him since I was 12… People don’t understand how (close he was)… I bought my mom and dad a house, and he had a room in there. So like what the media sees… The way I feel about him is different; that’s why I covered the BBB (tattoo) up on my arm. Because when I saw that, I saw him and that sh*t just made me so (angry). Because when we looked at the transactions, sh*t didn’t start happening until my mom got sick, because she took care of all the money sh*t.”

He said that was what hurt him the most about the situation, adding that he doesn’t know what he would do if he saw Foster any time soon. “Like I don’t even know what I would do if I see him right now. I ain’t seen him. So it was like when that happened, everything just went off.”

Foster was convicted of defrauding 75 people of approximately $4 million in 2002, which Ball said he didn’t know about.