OT LaVar Ball Says He and LaMelo Would Beat Michael Jordan, LeBron James 2-on-

[BigGameDamian]

Prior to his Big Baller Brand team taking on SC Supreme in the Adidas Uprising Summer Championships in Las Vegas on Wednesday, LaVar Ball argued that he and his son, LaMelo, could beat two of the greatest players of all time two-on-two.

When asked by Overtime (h/t Darryn Albert of Larry Brown Sports), Ball, 48, said he and his 15-year-old son could beat LeBron James and Michael Jordan in a competitive pickup game: "You already know I got me and 'Melo. Against LeBron and Jordan, anybody. Me and my son against anybody, we'll play and we'll beat."

Ball has a history of talking a big game when it comes to facing MJ.

In an interview with Josh Peter of USA Today in March, Ball said he would have beaten His Airness handily one-on-one in his prime:

"Back in my heyday, I would kill Michael Jordan one-on-one. ... I would just back [Jordan] in and lift him off the ground and call a foul every time he fouls me when I do a jump hook to the right or the left. He cannot stop me one-on-one. He better make every shot 'cause he can't go around me. He's not fast enough. And he can only make so many shots outside before I make every bucket under the rim."

Ball also said on Jimmy Kimmel Live he would make Jordan cry one-on-one.

Jordan, 54, was arguably the greatest player to ever step foot on a basketball court with six championships, six NBA Finals MVPs and 14 All-Star nods.

LeBron is still in his prime at 32, and the three-time champion has been to seven straight Finals.

The elder Ball, meanwhile, averaged 2.2 points per game at Washington State in 1987-88. LaMelo is a highly touted recruit committed to play at UCLA in the class of 2019.

 

[Nikolokolus]

I'm convinced.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

I wish there was some way to ignore everything involving this idiot.

 

[Trackjack]

This is the same big mouth that took his AAU team off the court due to him getting a T in a game while his team was winning. He has brain of box of rocks he living his dream through his kids. But he want to be notice by everyone, that why he talk so much smack all the time. Bottom line your kids are pretty good and you wasn't very good but you believe people owes you something but nobody owes anything. My advise to Lavar sit back and enjoy your kids play.

 

[andalusian]

I'm impressed. It took him very little time to go from pushing product #1 (Lonzo) to start pimpin' product #2. Well done.

 

[Duckhook]

Triggered...

 

[dviss1]

Ugh.... Why don't y'all understand this fool is an attention whore???

He wins when you give him attention.

Negative or positive it's only the attention that matters. If you don't like this fuckin' asshat:

STOP.
GIVING.
HIM.
WHAT.
HE.
WANTS.

And stop wasting forum space with these idiotic threads about FUCKING LAKERS.....

 

[dviss1]

I wish there was some way to ignore everything involving this idiot.

Well, there's simply ignoring it... That works...

 

[Mr. Robot]

I like LaVar, hes one of the best things thats happened to the NBA in many years
amazing troller, trash talker, funny, interesting etc

I hope hell become trash talker for the whole league, not just when it comes to his sons, and I hope hell remain being what he is after his mission with his sons gets done

and hes doing amazing things for his sons and that BBB, so he is one smart man, isnt he

 

[Strenuus]

This is what I need you to do, BGD:

Make a string on your computer that self-destructs your computer when:

-You make a thread about this guy

-You use the word untouchable

-You make a post that has been done 12+ hours before.

 

[Boob-No-More]

The elder Ball, meanwhile, averaged 2.2 points per game at Washington State in 1987-88.

This guy is like Uncle Rico with a pulpit.

Charles Barkley is not impressed:

“Hell, my grandmother could score two points a game, as long as she wasn’t double-teamed”

"I don’t ever talk about a guy who averaged two points a game on national television."

"He averaged two more points than a dead man."

BNM

 

[SIeepwalker]

This is what I need you to do, BGD:

Make a string on your computer that self-destructs your computer when:

-You make a thread about this guy

-You use the word untouchable

-You make a post that has been done 12+ hours before.

FTFY

 

[dviss1]

This guy is like Uncle Rico with a pulpit.

Charles Barkley is not impressed:

“Hell, my grandmother could score two points a game, as long as she wasn’t double-teamed”

"I don’t ever talk about a guy who averaged two points a game on national television."

"He averaged two more points than a dead man."

BNM

Cept uncle Rico would be a horrible father and this one has provided opportunities for both of his sons to attend and play for a Division 1 University. One of which is now a millionaire.

This is all parenting IDGAF what anyone says.

 

[Boob-No-More]

Cept uncle Rico would be a horrible father and this one has provided opportunities for both of his sons to attend and play for a Division 1 University. One of which is now a millionaire.

This is all parenting IDGAF what anyone says.

You have mentioned this several times, but always give 100% of the credit to their father. LaVar Ball is not a single parent. I know a lot of people want to see Lonzo Ball fail because they can't stand his father. I'm not in that camp. Whenever I've heard Lonzo interviewed e seems like a good kid, not a boorish blowhard like his father. I think his mom should get at least as much credit as his dad for the way Lonzo has turned out.

She was also a better basketball player than her husband:

"Slatinsky, a sophomore, is averaging 13.1 points and 7.2 rebounds."

BNM

 

[PDXFonz]

Ugh.... Why don't y'all understand this fool is an attention whore???

He wins when you give him attention.

Negative or positive it's only the attention that matters. If you don't like this fuckin' asshat:

STOP.
GIVING.
HIM.
WHAT.
HE.
WANTS.

And stop wasting forum space with these idiotic threads about FUCKING LAKERS.....

Lavar knew he made it as soon as he saw posts talking about him on RC2

 

[dviss1]

You have mentioned this several times, but always give 100% of the credit to their father. LaVar Ball is not a single parent. I know a lot of people want to see Lonzo Ball fail because they can't stand his father. I'm not in that camp. Whenever I've heard Lonzo interviewed e seems like a good kid, not a boorish blowhard like his father. I think his mom should get at least as much credit as his dad for the way Lonzo has turned out.

She was also a better basketball player than her husband:

"Slatinsky, a sophomore, is averaging 13.1 points and 7.2 rebounds."

BNM

I'm not discounting their mother at all. Lavar is all we see. As a matter of fact I'm giving her props by saying "It's all parenting". Too many of you are discounting Lavar's parenting like y'all aren't there to witness it.

 

[TBpup]

Just make it stop. It sadly speaks volumes about our country that so many people pay attention to this idiot that the networks keep showing him because....ratings. Sad state of affairs.

 

[dviss1]

Just make it stop. It sadly speaks volumes about our country that so many people pay attention to this idiot that the networks keep showing him because....ratings. Sad state of affairs.

Make it stop....

It stops when you stop paying attention...

 

[dviss1]

Just make it stop. It sadly speaks volumes about our country that so many people pay attention to this idiot that the networks keep showing him because....ratings. Sad state of affairs.

We live in a country where people like Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton can be famous for having sex on video...

Stop paying it any mind and it will go away just like all the things that deserve attention that do not get it...

 

[BlayZa]

now that him and his family is officially linked to the Lakers, there is basically no end to the coverage that him saying retarded shit will get.

it doesnt matter how fuckin idiotic, unbelievable or IQ destroying it is, it'll get covered.

I've never really wished an ACL on anyone, but this whole family is the closest.

I just hope there is some correction in the normal season around his kids ego, ideally some really fuckin serious defenders just make him a bitch on the court and this bubble bursts. It's tedious as fuck.

 

[jonnyboy]

Lavar just doing his job. Don't make it your job to hate him, that basically makes him your boss. He manufactures outrage and he is good at it. He can make these TV fucks heads spin with ease, along with the masses who parrot them. There is no instant satisfaction for being a humble person...Lavar Ball and the people who follow him are all about instant satisfaction.

 

[dviss1]

Lavar just doing his job. Don't make it your job to hate him, that basically makes him your boss. He manufactures outrage and he is good at it. He can make these TV fucks heads spin with ease, along with the masses who parrot them. There is no instant satisfaction for being a humble person...Lavar Ball and the people who follow him are all about instant satisfaction.

THIS.

 

[dviss1]

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I just hope there is some correction in the normal season around his kids ego, ideally some really fuckin serious defenders just make him a bitch on the court and this bubble bursts. It's tedious as fuck.

His kid has never shown that he has an "ego". There literally is only one reason to hate him and that's his team.

Transferring your hate to the kid says more about the hater than it does about the kid.

 

[Boob-No-More]

I'm not discounting their mother at all. Lavar is all we see. As a matter of fact I'm giving her props by saying "It's all parenting". Too many of you are discounting Lavar's parenting like y'all aren't there to witness it.

Part of being a good parent is teaching your children to respect others. That's my biggest problem with LaVar. He is disrespectful. He has made comments disrespectful of women and is constantly disrespecting great athletes, both past and present. I don't respect the man, because he doesn't respect others.

I don't hold that against his kid(s), but when their father is constantly disrespecting current players the kids are going to be the ones that have to back up his father's words. There is an expression, don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk. LaVar talks the talk, but knows he'll never have to back it up. He leaves that for his kids. It's not fair to them and is the reason so many people want to see Lonzo fail.

BNM

 

[dviss1]

It's not fair to them and is the reason so many people want to see Lonzo fail.

BNM

It's not a good reason. And it says more about the person wanting him to fail than it does a bout Lonzo. You don't choose your parents.

Also, just because Lonzo isn't exhibiting the same behavior as his father doesn't mean his dad didn't teach him to be respectful.

No one here is present when he's parenting. The bottom line is, any one of us would love to provide the type of opportunity to our children that Lavar and Tina have for for their children.

 

[Boob-No-More]

It's not a good reason. And it says more about the person wanting him to fail than it does a bout Lonzo. You don't choose your parents.

Also, just because Lonzo isn't exhibiting the same behavior as his father doesn't mean his dad didn't teach him to be respectful.

No one here is present when he's parenting. The bottom line is, any one of us would love to provide the type of opportunity to our children that Lavar and Tina have for for their children.

Part of parenting is teaching by example, and by disrespecting others publicly, LaVar is failing at this aspect.

Trumps kids are rich and famous, too. That doesn't mean I respect their father.

BNM

 

[dviss1]

Part of parenting is teaching by example, and by disrespecting others publicly, LaVar is failing at this aspect.

Trumps kids are rich and famous, too. That doesn't mean I respect their father.

BNM

Rich and famous because they were given money not because they earned it through hard work and perseverance.

And they are still pieces of shit. Every one of them.

 

[Boob-No-More]

And they are still pieces of shit. Every one of them.

On this we agree.

BNM

 

[Natebishop3]

I would LOVE to watch MJ play him one on one. God that would be hilarious.

 

[dviss1]

I would LOVE to watch MJ play him one on one. God that would be hilarious.

And you'd tune in to do what?

Give him more attention!