One of basketball’s most colorful personalities is vouching for another.
In an interview this week with TMZ Sports, retired former NBA All-Star Metta World Peace spoke on controversial figure LaVar Ball and gave an interesting take on what the future might hold for the Big Baller.
“I love LaVar, he should be a coach one day,” said World Peace. “Coach college, coach his kids, coach the pros somewhere. He should get his skills up. He should be an NBA coach one day. Now I wouldn’t say for the Lakers. He said some things where he thought that he should be coaching his son [Lonzo] at the Lakers and all his kids should play together. I don’t agree with that at all. I think a lot of that is a pile of crap, a pile of big crap.
“But what I do believe is he’s a passionate guy, and I think he should learn how to be a head coach,” the ex-Defensive Player of the Year continued. “He should go through the NBA’s coaching program. I would play for him. We would clash. He would say, ‘Don’t shoot.’ I would say, ‘Whatever.’ … As long as he can take criticism from his players, I think he should go through the program and be a coach. It seems like that’s what he wants.”
To be fair, the Ball family patriarch has gotten in some coaching experience of sorts. The problem is that it has been limited to serving as head coach of the Big Baller Brand AAU team and making brief cameos as an assistant for BC Vytautas in Lithuania during the short-lived stint that younger sons LiAngelo and LaMelo had playing there.
That said, LaVar has taken some major Ls as a businessman lately, so perhaps pursuing an alternate career path might not be the worst thing for him.
