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LaVar Ball tore son LaMelo apart in front of AAU team

LaVar Ball is a fiery guy. He’s a trainer, and he knows how to motivate people — including, apparently, his sons. Considering how well they’re all doing in their playing careers, we’d be hard-pressed to condemn Ball for his …

Joel Embiid

Joel Embiid doubles down on comments ripping LaVar Ball despite fine

Joel Embiid has created a lot of buzz lately with the way he has ripped LaVar Ball, and the Philadelphia 76ers star has no intention of backing down from what he said. Embiid was answering some questions for fans on social media last week when …

LaVar Ball

LaVar Ball says Lonzo’s summer league debut was ‘his worst game ever’

If one chooses to look at things a certain way, Los Angeles Lakers guard Lonzo Ball has nowhere to go but up. Making his NBA Summer League debut Friday against the Los Angeles Clippers, Ball scored just five points on 2-of-15 shooting from the field. …

LaVar Ball Lakers

LaVar Ball: Joel Embiid is ‘not intelligent at all,’ prone to injury

Here we go again! LaVar Ball fired back at Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid after Embiid’s critical comments, with Ball continuing to up the ante. Ball was unimpressed with Embiid’s f-bomb, claiming it as evidence that the Sixers …

Joel Embiid

Joel Embiid, LaVar Ball trade shots at each other

The Process vs. The Big Baller has officially become the NBA’s next great feud. In an interview last week on 97.5 The Fanatic, LaVar Ball took an opportunity to respond to this tweet that Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid sent on draft …

LaVar Ball WWE

LaVar Ball takes off shirt at ‘WWE Monday Night Raw’

LaVar Ball finally found the proper place for his talk and hype — a WWE ring. Ball and his “Big Baller Brand” made an appearance on “WWE Monday Night RAW” at Staples Center in Los Angeles Monday. The father appeared on …

LaVar Ball

Grandpa Ball reveals LaVar Ball’s childhood nickname

Lonzo Ball’s grandfather seems like a genuine guy who’s super proud of his grandson, Lonzo, whom the Lakers drafted second overall in Thursday’s NBA Draft. TMZ was able to track down LaVar Ball’s father at Los Angeles International Airport. One …

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LaVar Ball’s college coach Kelvin Sampson roasted him in 1988 newspaper article

LaVar Ball has cemented himself as a well-known figure in sports. As ESPN’s Darren Rovell pointed out, Ball and his son, Lonzo, were two of three most-tweeted-about people during Thursday night’s NBA Draft. The most Tweeted about people tonight: 1. …

LaVar Ball Lakers

Robert Horry believes Lakers will distance themselves from LaVar Ball

LaVar Ball said all along that his son Lonzo was going to be drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers, and he was proven right on Thursday night. Does that mean the Lakers are going all-in on the Big Baller Brand? Robert Horry highly doubts it. Horry, who …

Luke Walton

Luke Walton has great response to LaVar Ball playoff guarantee

Los Angeles Lakers coach Luke Walton may want to get used to having to respond to outlandish LaVar Ball quotes now that Lonzo is a Laker. He got his first bit of practice in Thursday night, offering a very funny — and apt — response to …

LaVar Ball Lakers

LaVar Ball guarantees Lonzo will take Lakers to playoffs as rookie

LaVar Ball gave another strange, surreal interview with ESPN after the Los Angeles Lakers selected his son Lonzo No. 2 overall. First, LaVar had a Big Baller Brand hat ready and waiting for the moment, claiming that he had it made when Lonzo was …

LaVar Ball

LaVar Ball says ‘Zeus and Jesus’ told him Lonzo would go to Lakers

LaVar Ball has arrived at the NBA Draft and is already holding court with his trademark big talk. Ball spoke on ESPN prior to the draft, where he once again asserted that he had spoken into existence his son Lonzo being a Laker, which is exceedingly …

LaVar Ball

LaVar Ball says he told son LiAngelo he might not make it in NBA

LaVar Ball is capable of moments of candor. Ball and his sons were profiled in the July edition of GQ, and in the story, the patriarch of the family admits that he’s not sure middle son LiAngelo has an NBA future — and told him so. …

De'Aaron Fox

De’Aaron Fox’s father throws shade at LaVar Ball

Just a couple of days after Father’s Day, we have ourselves some father-on-father shade at the top of the NBA draft lottery. In an interview with Jonathan Abrams of Bleacher Report that ran on Tuesday, De’Aaron Fox’s father Aaron …

Lonzo Ball

LaVar Ball still fully confident Lonzo Ball will be drafted by Lakers

If you hear any reports about the Los Angeles Lakers potentially taking anyone other than Lonzo Ball with the second overall pick in Thursday’s NBA Draft, you should ignore them. That’s what Lonzo’s father is saying, at least. TMZ …

Lonzo Ball

Lonzo Ball mocks LaVar Ball in hilarious Foot Locker commercial

Lonzo Ball and his father LaVar have not done a whole lot to make people like them in the past several months, but all of that could change with a brilliant one-minute sneaker commercial. Foot Locker has dropped some hilarious ads in the past, but …

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