I understand what LaVar Ball is doing.
It is either going to work out brilliantly or backfire spectacularly, there is zero middle ground to this. He has gone all in on his three sons, so at least one of them has to become a top 10 player of all time or he will end up being a laughingstock and cautionary tale.
While you ponder that here is Ball talking about how crush Michael Jordan if they played in their prime via USA Today.
“Back in my heyday, I would kill Michael Jordan one-on-one,’’ said Ball, the 49-year-old basketball dad who is 6-6 and 270 pounds and has a mouth to match his size.
“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,” Ball said. “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 averaged 2.3 points a game in college, but insists even on 5-on-5 he would do damage against Jordan.
“Now in a game of five-on-five, (Jordan) might do some damage, but I’m going to do some damage too,’’ Ball added.
Ball is the great self marketer or he is on some really good drugs, either/or we are paying attention.