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Famous Nike exec calls LaVar Ball “The Worst Thing to Happen to Basketball in the last 100 years”

It’s been a few days since we’ve heard LaVar Ball’s name, which is why it makes perfect sense that it came up this morning. According to Michael Smith, a writer at Sports Business Daily, longtime Nike executive and Hall of Fame coach George Raveling slammed Lonzo Ball’s father at the World Congress of Sports event in Dana Point, California yesterday, calling him “the worst thing to happen to basketball in the last 100 years.”

Ouch. If you think that’s harsh, Raveling apparently followed it up by saying Lonzo should get automatic entrance into heaven for dealing his outspoken dad.