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This is bigger than LaVar Ball -- the media has a Big Baller Brand problem

As members of the press, we have a nasty habit of taking the slightest criticisms as attacks on the First Amendment. When it comes to covering the White House, those critiques are real and dangerous and should be taken as such, but this is far from that.

This is a collection of NBA coaches expressing displeasure and dismay at the media's fascination at everything the father of Lonzo Ball says or does.

I have a hard time faulting Rick Carlisle or Golden State's Steve Kerr or Detroit's Stan Van Gundy for their comments in the past 48 hours.