It seems like the sports world can't go 24 hours without having LaVar Ball make headlines. The elder Ball made frontpage news again by denouncing reports that claimed that he had purposefully leaked Lonzo Ball's knee injury in order to torpedo any trade that would ship him out of the Los Angeles Lakers' roster.
LaVar defended himself by citing his past behavior, per TMZ:
“I don’t leak nothing. I always say what’s on my mind, so you don’t never see me saying, ‘I think I should say this now and let it leak.’ I don’t do that.”
Surprisingly, this a fairly solid defense by LaVar. No one can deny that he always speaks his mind, loudly and brashly, no matter the implications. It doesn't seem his style to leak information confidentially.
However, it is undeniable that it is has been LaVar's intention from the day that Lonzo was drafted to keep him in Los Angeles for as long as possible and get his two younger brothers on the team as well.
If Lonzo had been traded, LaVar's dreams of his three sons playing in a well-publicized, star-studded city would have been destroyed before it had even started.
Even if LaVar didn't leak the information personally, it certainly worked out in his favor that Lonzo's injury became public.
If the Spurs had been oblivious to the knee damage, there quite possibly could have been a trade that ended with Lonzo in a Spurs jersey next season and Kawhi Leonard chasing a ring in Los Angeles with LeBron James.
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