As we gear up for the March Madness tournament to begin in earnest on Thursday, many eyes are on UCLA’s Lonzo Ball. The freshman guard is the Division I assists leader (7.7) and could up his 2017 NBA draft stock with his performance in the postseason.
However it’s his stage dad that’s been hogging the spotlight as of recently. As the father of three basketball stars – Lonzo’s younger brothers LiAngelo and LaMelo are studs for Chino Hills High School – LaVar Ball has developed some delusions of grandeur, so to speak.
In a recent interview with USA Today’s Josh Peter, the brash father of the boys at the heart of the controversial Big Baller Brand claimed that back in his “heyday,” he’d have killed Michael Jordan playing one-on-one.