The LaVar Ball wordwide tour is over. It may be the United States’ turn next.

With the Ball family returning from Lithuania after the brothers were pulled, with injuries, from their European team, LaVar can focus on his next mission: the league he is trying to create as an alternative to the NCAA.

The Junior Basketball Association, which LaVar said will be funded by his Big Baller Brand, wants to pay its players (from $3,000 to $10,000 a month) and serve as a transitional minor league for the NBA. To get interest right away, the league needs star power.

And LaVar thinks he has the right person to help sell it: his son, LaMelo.

“I have to think about Melo promoting my league,” Ball said in his lengthy exit interview with BC Prienai, as pointed out by USA Today. “I’m looking for a superstar, and I’ve got him right in front of my face. And I developed — I’ve been looking for people to develop Melo. I said, OK, he’s gotta play overseas, he’s gotta do that. But Melo made me understand something. ‘Dad, why don’t you develop me like you did [Lonzo] and [LiAngelo]. Same thing. I can play with anybody. I can play with grown men, I can play with babies, it don’t matter. Just make sure I’m stronger and faster and ready for the NBA when it’s my time to be drafted.’  That’s what we’re looking into right now.

“Maybe we just let Melo run this JBA thing for me. He’d be the face of my league.”

LaMelo is 16 and isn’t eligible for the draft until 2020. (And while he’s talented, he’s not the prospect brother Lonzo, now a Laker, was.) Technically, he isn’t even eligible for the JBA; its league rules stipulate you must be 17, which he won’t be until August.

The league plans to launch this summer, but finding enough athletes and interest may be a problem.