Just how far will LaVar Ball go with UCLA shoplifting case?

It seems that the Great UCLA Sunglass Theft case has been solved to everyone’s satisfaction, and the three Bruins players who were held by Chinese authorities for allegedly trying to lift some designer sunglasses have been presented a potentially severe lesson they must still decide to learn.
 
Now the issue at hand is whether the whole sordid mess will be fodder for LiAngelo Ball’s father and the family’s reality show.
 
We get into dodgy areas when the subject is the parenting of others, but the indiscretion, which LaVar has declared “ain’t that big a deal,” involves not only his son but two other young men. In short, telling this tale to a hungry group of living room voyeurs may be a dandy teaching moment for LiAngelo, but the two other players, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill, have guardians as well, and with some say-so about how much of their children’s embarrassment is suitable for reality television.
 
It certainly isn’t up to LaVar Ball, which means his thirst for fame and fortune has at least this one limit, or should.
 
This isn’t about protecting the guilty, either. For one, the Chinese legal process has not yet completed its course, so nobody’s guilty of anything yet.  This is about one parent’s ability and/or choice to embarrass someone else’s children for a television show that in this case works against their better interests.
 
Now Ball The Elder may see the wisdom in keeping the entire sunglass story out of the show, or he may edit Riley and Hill out of the show for their protection. Or he might decide they are all fair game for the brand, in which case the diminishing interest and curiosity in the Ball Empire will shrink even more. Using a film crew as an instrument for bullying, if that is the correct legal term, breaks any number of social contracts, and maybe a few of our remaining privacy laws as well.
 
I’d say this will be an interesting case, but as so few things surrounding the Ball family actually are, I prefer to think it will be interesting for a remarkably few people. And I’ve been wrong before on his staying power.