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Ever since Lonzo Ball came on to the scene as a highly-touted basketball recruit (and LaVar entered our lives) his combination of size and special play-making ability has led to a number of comparisons to hall of fame point guard and current Milwaukee Bucks Head Coach Jason Kidd. Ball has looked the part as a [...]

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 [...]

If you’re anything like me, you will have clicked onto this story because the title is too tantalizing to ignore. Lonzo Ball had his 20th birthday party at Dave & Buster’s? And Jordan Clarkson lost money to his brother, LaMelo Ball, playing Pop-a-Shot? Surely this isn’t real. Surely someone mistakenly aggregated a piece from The [...]

Lonzo Ball has no time for fair-weather Los Angeles Lakers fans. He only wants to deal with the realest supporters. The rookie tweeted out the following on Sunday night, after the Lakers fell to the Utah Jazz: [tweet https://twitter.com/ZO2_/status/924488601542516736] People will poke fun at this because he’s Lonzo Ball. Others will question whether it’s even [...]

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, [...]

Lonzo Ball now has a bit more of Steve Nash’s game in him. Courtesy of Steve Nash. Ball recently worked out with the future Hall of Famer, a session he left feeling accomplished and enlightened. As he said on NBC Sports’ Pro Basketball Talk podcast (via SLAM’s Ryne Nelson): He’s an MVP, one of the best point [...]

James Worthy has set a demonstratively high bar for Los Angeles Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball. TMZ caught up with the Hall of Famer and Lakers legend, and they asked him about young Lonzo, because why the frick not? It’s August. What else are they supposed to ask him about. Anywho, his take on Lonzo? He [...]

Somewhat lost in the Paul George-Los Angeles Lakers-Indiana Pacers triangle is the fact that Tinseltown has a draft pick to use this week. The Lakers aren’t giving up the second overall selection in any George deal, so the question of whether to choose Lonzo Ball or Josh Jackson lives on. As of now, the favorite [...]

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 [...]