LaVar Ball claims Los Angeles Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka drafted Svi Mykhailiuk as a favor.
This was what Ball told FS1's “Undisputed” (via SilverScreenAndRoll.com's Anthony Irwin) on June 5. He specifically singled out Mykhailiuk, a 21-year-old Ukranian who the Lakers made the 47th overall selection of the 2018 NBA Draft.
I'm just saying. There had to be a favor. The other kid, Xavi (presumably meaning Svi), there's some better players out there.
But when you owe certain people, it's just like then you go overseas to look at some people but then you say you don't go overseas. ‘The Ball boys, they overseas. They're not in the U.S. Don't look at them.'
But you go over there looking at somebody else. That's why I'm like, ‘Don't tell me you owe somebody something.' Because the guys you pick, you put them against my boy, my boy kill them.
LaVar Ball claims that Magic Johnson and Rob Pelinka told him they would give LiAngelo Ball an opportunity with the Lakers. https://t.co/ka90P3yPAz pic.twitter.com/uISVLZ0Kpq
— Silver Screen and Roll (@LakersSBN) June 5, 2019
Perhaps Ball was upset his middle son, LiAngelo Ball, didn't meet the Lakers' expectations during his pre-draft workout with the team last year. According to Irwin, “LiAngelo's workout was so disappointing that the Lakers didn't even include him on the summer league team.”
Irwin also finds it hard to believe Pelinka would draft Mykhailiuk as a favor only to trade him less than a year later to the Detroit Pistons in exchange for Reggie Bullock.
LaVar Ball must accept the fact his son, LiAngelo Ball, isn't cut for the NBA. The latter is better off plying his trade somewhere else.
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