LaVar Ball did not measure his words when asked why the Warriors were the wrong team for his son LaMelo Ball.
During an interview on the Los Angeles ESPN radio station, former Los Angeles Laker Mychal Thompson asked the father of the NBA’s most eminent stage why he didn’t want LaMelo, the Charlotte Hornets guard and current favorite for Rookie of the Year. , was chosen by the Golden State Warriors. According to NBC Sports, LaVar responded by calling Steve Kerr “the Milli Vanilli of coaching” – a very funny, albeit peculiar, criticism of the coach who led the Dubs to break records in the regular season, as well as his dynastic race.
“He called me the Kardashian of basketball,” said Ball, still apparently offended by Kerr’s comments, three-year-old, during a one-time press. “All he needed to do was call me LaVar Ball and we would be fine. I call him Milli Vanilli because you are not training, you are just standing up. I could train you with your eyes closed.”
(Again, he’s calling Kerr a R&B duo-style swindler who returned his Grammys after it was revealed that they voiced for talented and less handsome singers? Who knows.)
Ball went on to say that he “can train all guys better … because less training is the best training”.
It is another seemingly one-sided bullet point between the Big Baller’s father and the Warriors coach. He has spoken at length about his disdain for the Warriors, claiming before recruitment that LaMelo should not have to work his way to be a star if the Warriors chose him. “He doesn’t have to do what they do, let them do things,” he said in a podcast interview last year.
Ball was chosen third by the Hornets and is having a great season, averaging 16 points, six rebounds and six assists with 45% of pitches as a starter – which may give some credence to his father’s argument. That said, LaMelo refuted his father’s comments: “As I said, I feel like I can play on any team,” he told reporters before the draft. “Anywhere fits perfectly.”