{"id":845062,"date":"2026-08-06T01:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/845062\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T01:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:56:12","slug":"social-media-users-are-having-a-hard-time-processing-lamelo-balls-charlotte-penthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/845062\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media users are having a hard time processing LaMelo Ball’s Charlotte penthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Charlotte Hornets<\/a> traded LaMelo Ball to the Minnesota Timberwolves this offseason after six seasons with the team, which means that at least a portion of his offseason activities has involved moving.<\/p>\n

But when it comes to boxing up his place, Ball’s pad is not like anything most of us are used to, and not just because it’s a penthouse.<\/p>\n

A mover working at the apartment posted a video on social media that quickly went viral<\/a> because… well, you don’t see a lot of apartments with alien mannequins standing on countertops that look like a NASA photo of a distant galaxy.<\/p>\n

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If you’ve ever wondered what happens when you give a 24-year-old an almost limitless amount of money, we finally have an answer.<\/p>\n

It turns out that, at least in the case of Ball, he pretty much turned his place into what looks like every retro arcade bar I’ve ever been to, sans the actual arcade cabinets.<\/p>\n

Just aliens and neon every which way you look.<\/p>\n

\"LaMelo <\/p>\n

LaMelo Ball’s Charlotte penthouse has gone viral for its unique decor as the point Guard moves to Minnesota after a trade to the Timberwolves earlier this offseason. (Photo by Jacob Kupferman\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

I don’t know about you, but I’d find it hard to relax in my penthouse with an alien basketball player staring at me from atop my kitchen counter and a neon sign of some cartoon character flickering from down the hall.<\/p>\n

But maybe that’s just me.<\/p>\n

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This video quickly went viral for obvious reasons, and social media users had some thoughts and observations of their own.<\/p>\n

Hey, to each their own.<\/p>\n

\"LaMelo <\/p>\n

LaMelo Bell is now a member of the Minnesota Timberwolves as part of a complex four-team trade in July. (Photo by David Sherman\/NBAE via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

I will say, however, that “Alien Clown Core” might be the best description of whatever that was. It was like LaMelo’s interior decorator (I’m going to assume he didn’t use one, but let’s pretend for a moment) asked him for some photo inspirations and just handed her a Blu-Ray copy of “Killer Klowns from Outer Space.”<\/p>\n

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Well, we’ll have to wait and see if Ball brings Alien Clown Core to the Twin Cities<\/a> or if he tones things down a little bit.<\/p>\n

Matthew Reigle is a writer for OutKick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Charlotte Hornets traded LaMelo Ball to the Minnesota Timberwolves this offseason after six seasons with the team,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,5670,5665,590,300794,85,4050],"class_list":["post-845062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-nba","tag-outkick-sports","tag-sports","tag-viral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}