In what should come a surprise to no one, LaVar Ball is struggling to find an audience with his newly launched Junior Basketball Association.

With the first series set for June 21 at the Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, Calif., only 1,000 seats in the venue have been marked as sold on Ticketmaster, as For the Win discovered. The floor seats still available for the Chicago-Atlanta and New York-Los Angeles games start at $99 a ticket.

Youngest son LaMelo is the centerpiece of Ball’s prized JBA league, but the general public isn’t yearning to watch if the star attraction isn’t participating. A mere 68 seats have been grabbed for the exhibition on June 26 at Chicago’s Wintrust Arena, which will not feature 16-year-old LaMelo and the Los Angeles Ballers.

“I have to think about Melo promoting my league,” Ball said in an interview last month. “I’m looking for a superstar, and I’ve got him right in front of my face.”

Determined to find and capitalize on the next crop of NBA superstars, Ball’s alternative to the NCAA has yet to attract alluring prospects, sans those who share his last name. While LaMelo’s foreseeable future likely is to be engulfed in all things JBA, middle child LiAngelo, 19, is hopeful to join brother Lonzo in the NBA, following his recent Lakers tryout.

“I feel like it went good,” LiAngelo said. “It’s always fun being in here doing things I want to get better at. It was a good workout.”

After dropping out of UCLA amid a shoplifting scandal in China, which left him indefinitely suspended from the team, LiAngelo and LaMelo played professionally for Lithuania’s Vytautas club earlier this year.

“I showed I can know down shots and get some wins within the 2-on-2 and 3-on-3s. I showed I can play together,” he said.

Despite how LiAngelo felt about his performance, the interest isn’t mutual, as Lonzo’s brother is not expected to sign with the Lakers.