LaVar Ball said Friday comments he made to the Southern California News Group about UCLA’s white basketball players on Thursday were misunderstood.
In an interview with ESPN 710, the father of former UCLA point guard Lonzo Ball showed support for white players he said lacked the foot speed to win a national championship.
“I love those guys,” LaVar Ball said. “I’m not saying I don’t like white guys and we lost because of them. No - that’s how they twisted it up.”
On Thursday, the elder Ball revealed his son pulled a hamstring in UCLA’s loss to Kentucky on March 24 in the NCAA Tournament, adding, “realistically, you can’t win no championship with three white guys because the foot speed is too slow.