Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Kyrie Irving knows all about being a highly-touted college player and lottery pick, and he couldn’t help but offer some advice to the father of a player in a similar position.
Irving thinks LaVar Ball, father of Lonzo, needs to lay off his son and let him live a little bit.
“I’m sorry, LaVar, you’re not going to be in every hotel room that Lonzo is going to be in,” Irving told the Uninterrupted’s “Road Trippin'” podcast, via ESPN’s Dave McMenamin. “You’re not going to be everywhere and part of his life as he continues to grow up. You got to let go. He’s 19-years old. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want it to bypass him being a father, but he’s got to let Lonzo be Lonzo for the long haul.”
Irving said he had to talk with his own father about forging his own NBA path.
“I had to have a talk with my dad, and I was just like, ‘Man, Dad, I love you, but I’m going to make my own decisions,'” Irving said. “And he told me, when I turn 18, I’m responsible enough for myself to make my own decisions, and he’s going to be there to help along the way. But when I turned 18, like, I got my first tattoo. I got my ear pierced. I just started doing my own thing.”
Many in the sports world have criticized LaVar Ball’s conduct. To this point, he hasn’t taken any of their advice.
