While we have heard from LaVar Ball on a daily basis one of the things he or his sons rarely talk about is his wife and their mother Tina Ball.
The reason for that is she has been recovering from a very serious stroke and they wanted to keep that private.
But, LaVar in an exclusive interview with ESPN, spoke about his wife’s condition and how the family is handling it.
“I just deal with it. Whatever it is,” Ball said. “Things are gonna happen in life. Either you are gonna help do something about it or you just gonna let it happen and destroy you.
“Like I told my boys: ‘I got her. Now you can do whatever you want to do. What I’m not going to is burden you with sitting there rubbing her hand, doing that. We’re not making a movie.’ … That’s my wife, and I take care of her.
“She wants to talk and she can get out a few words,” he continued. “I’m rebooting her now right now. She’s saying, ‘LaVar, you’re right. You are right.’ That’s all I want to hear her say. Now we can get another 25 years having a good time. She is going to get better with me.”
“I told them, ‘If you’re going to be disrespectful to your mom, I want you to be all the time.’ So, excuse my language right here, but if you want to say, ‘Good morning, b—-,’ that’s fine with me,” Ball said. “I’m not going to say nothing. If you want to call your mom a b—-, that’s fine. But don’t get sick, when your stomach is hurting and you want me to care for you because you know I ain’t. … She’ll clean up the throw-up, the s—, whatever. She’ll take of what you want. … So don’t wait until you need something, or you need her to make you something and now you want to be nice to her. …
“So they never disrespect their mom, or talk back to her, or say nothing. Because I say, ‘In the long run, you’re going to need her before you need me.'”
All the sons seem to be very respectful and nice kids.
Interesting that while many at ESPN wanted LaVar banned as soon as the heat went down they gave him an exclusive interview.
All that matters are the ratings and views.