I never thought LaVar Ball’s switching gears comment was sexual.
I truly believe he was being literal, but you can’t help how people will react to something you say. I think one of the HUGE differences was LaVar and Molly weren’t in the studio together. Hard to gauge someone when you are just hearing the words in the vacuum so I understand why she reacted the way she did.
With that being said there appears video evidence that backs up LaVar’s claim that he didn’t mean anything buy it.
Molly used the same phrasing when LaVar was on First Take in 2017 and LaVar reacted more or less the same. The difference was Molly was sitting right next to him and could see he didn’t mean anything by it.
You can even see LaVar do the same “Switching Gears” motion. In the end, it was blown out of proportion more so because of the reaction than what LaVar actually said or meant.
If it was anyone else besides LaVar probably wouldn’t be a big deal at all, but that is what happens when you are a polarizing figure.
Remember Will Cain can call a player a suicide bomber and ESPN won’t comment on it at all.
Flip the page for the video evidence.