New York Knicks‘ new signing Tim Hardaway Jr. knows what it's like to have a father on his ear while being on the spotlight of the biggest basketball league in the world.

With recent headlines being dominated by rookie Lonzo Ball and his often-outspoken father LaVar, the four-year veteran offered some advice to both father and son upon coming into the NBA.

“I heard ’Zo give me an answer, and he said that that’s his father, and you can’t change the man, that’s how he’s always been, that confident,” Hardaway told Steve Serby of the New York Post. “I mean, if I was Lonzo and I had to tell my father one thing… ‘Be yourself, but pick and choose wisely when you can rave and when you can’t.'”

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Hardaway specified that LaVar could be doing more harm than good if Lonzo isn't the type of player to feed off his dad's comments.

“You’ve got the utmost confidence in your son, but at the same time … putting a target on his back,” said Hardaway. “But, that’s his father, he has the utmost confidence in ’Zo, and if ’Zo feeds off of that, and plays better when that happens, then so be it.”

“But if that was my dad, I’d tell him to pipe down a little bit: ‘Don’t change who you are, but you could settle down.'”

Just when most thought the circus had stopped after Lonzo landed as the Los Angeles Lakers‘ No. 2 overall selection, his father has continued to make headlines. While that hasn't affected his play in the Summer League, there are a list of players waiting to make an example out of Lonzo whenever he steps on the court with real NBA players with a reputation to protect.