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The LaVar Ball-Donald Trump saga has reached a new level: mock peace offerings. TMZ Sports caught up with LaVar over the weekend and pressed him a tiny bit about his previous CNN appearance and the equivalent of free advertising he racked up in the process. This, naturally, led to LaVar saying he would be sending [...]

Ready for the non-surprise of the year? Okay, here it goes: LaVar Ball isn’t happy with how the Los Angeles Lakers are coaching his son, Lonzo Ball. Totally shocking, I know. Like, completely out of left field. No one saw this coming. (Note: Everyone saw this coming.) Consider what Papa Ball said, per Bleacher Report’s [...]

President of the United States Donald Trump basically wanted a purple heart for intervening with the arrests of UCLA players LiAngelo Ball, brother of Los Angeles Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball, Jalen Hill and Cody Riley during a recent team trip to China. The trio was detained for shoplifting but eventually released and the charges dropped after [...]

The Los Angeles Lakers took on the Milwaukee Bucks in the Bradley Center in Milwaukee on Saturday night in a match-up between two exciting, young teams. There were numerous stars of the future on display including Giannis Antetokounmpo and Lonzo Ball. The Greek Freak had 33 points and 14 rebounds, while Ball became the youngest [...]

Welcome to another edition of “LaVar Ball said what about Lonzo Ball?!?!?” The latest, per Complex Sports, has Pops saying that social media can make his son “bigger” than Kobe Bryant: [tweet https://twitter.com/Complex/status/926959350215667712] So, like, on the LaVar scale of talking points, this take is pretty tame. Lonzo has about a half-million followers on Twitter to [...]

Get ready for a different spin on LaVar Ball’s outspoken demeanor. Plenty of people have criticized his bravado—particularly his serial sentiments on how his son, Los Angeles Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball, is already a star and already better than incumbent superstars such as Stephen Curry. Washington Wizards head coach Scott Brooks is not one of [...]

Marcin Gortat is not here for LaVar Ball guaranteeing a Los Angeles Lakers victory over the Washington Wizards on Wednesday. Following the Purple and Gold’s loss to the New Orleans Pelicans on Sunday, LaVar, the outspoken father of Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball, said “The Wizards better beware, because Lonzo ain’t losing again. Not in the [...]

We live in a world driven by social media and an insatiable desire for sports content around the clock. Sports fanatics are scanning every blog they can to soak in as much knowledge as they can about their favorite sport, team or player. This sort of coverage can lead to hyper-focused coverage of one team, [...]

With Father’s Day just around the corner, Foot Locker has created a commercial with some of the top draft prospects reflecting on the impact their dads have had on their journeys to the NBA. In the video De’Aaron Fox, Jayson Tatum and Jonathan Isaac talk about how their relationships with their fathers helped them get [...]

LaVar Ball has his reasons for wanting his son, Lonzo Ball, to end up with the Los Angeles Lakers. And those reasons—well, his primary reason—doesn’t say much about the rest of the roster. During an appearance on CSN’s Celtics Talk podcast (h/t For The Win), LaVar cited the Lakers’ lack of incumbent leadership as the impetus [...]