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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 [...]

Because of his loud mouth, gregarious, offensive and in your face father, Lavar, Lonzo Ball is probably the most recognized name in the 2017 NBA Draft. As a 6’6″ point guard and a local Los Angeles kid who played for his hometown school in college, the UCLA Bruins, and a player with potentially special play [...]

One of these days we won’t have a Lonzo Ball-Los Angeles Lakers rumor to write about. That day is not today. According to ESPN.com’s Chad Ford, the organization remains split on whether to select him with the No. 2 pick: The Lakers want to control the narrative, which is that they — not LaVar Ball, [...]

Lonzo Ball landing with the Los Angeles Lakers is starting to feel like less and less of a formality. The latest, in fact, is fairly damning. A source told Bleacher Report’s Jordan Schultz that, if the draft were today, the Lakers would pass on Ball for a variety of reasons: [tweet https://twitter.com/Schultz_Report/status/871111030918848513] Even if the [...]

Lonzo Ball isn’t a lock to join the Los Angeles Lakers after all. While many assume the Purple and Gold will take the electric UCLA guard at No. 2, the team, apparently, isn’t so sure. It needs to see more from Ball before committing to him, according to Basketball Insiders’ Steve Kyler: With reports surfacing that [...]

D’Angelo Russell doesn’t seem too excited that the Los Angeles Lakers will have the chance to draft UCLA’s Lonzo Ball with the second overall pick in this year’s draft. And he’s not afraid to show it. Sort of. Russell liked a tweet that said there was “no way in hell” the Lakers should draft Ball: [...]

LaVar Ball totally called it. He said the Los Angeles Lakers would keep their top-three pick, which they did. And then he said they’d use it to draft his son, Lonzo Ball, which they might. Armed with the second-overall selection in this year’s draft, the Lakers are in prime Lonzo territory. Markelle Fultz is expected [...]

LaVar Ball has no doubt his son, Lonzo, will trade in his UCLA jersey for Los Angeles Lakers garb at this June’s draft. Holster your “The lottery is rigged!” takes for another time. This has nothing to do with existing knowledge, and everything to do with LaVar’s commitment to treating his gut feelings as future realities. [...]

LaVar Ball is not going to be happy. Despite not appearing in the NCAA March Madness tournament, Markelle Fultz remains the prohibitive favorite to be drafted first overall in this year’s prospect pageant, according to ESPN.com’s Chad Ford, who polled a bunch of scouts: Based on conversations with NBA scouts, it looks like Markelle Fultz [...]

LaVar Ball has made himself far and away more famous and in the news than his top NBA draft prospect son Lonzo Ball and his other two talented sons in high school LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball, with his controversial comments and let’s be honest, disassociation with reality. He has said that Lonzo is better than [...]