LaVar Ball is best known for his uncanny personality and very vocal opinion about almost anything the world of basketball has to offer. Aside from that, he’s also known to be a staunch supporter of his kids, even if it means criticizing other basketball personalities by any means possible. His latest controversy has called the attention of NBA coaches, and the San Antonio Spurs' Gregg Popovich is the latest to partake.
In an article by Michael C. Wright for ESPN, Popovich literally gave everyone a lesson on the science behind Ball's nonsense.
“Whenever anyone says anything about another individual or about the quality of another individual, or what they’re doing, I think the first thing to look at is the substance and gravitas of the source that speaks. Just stopping at that point would tell you that you don’t need to listen or go any further. It’s just another fan in the peanut gallery with an opinion, which is meaningless.
“Luke [Walton] has been schooled in this game from the time he was a little kid. And he doesn’t even know what he knows probably, just by osmosis, whether it was living at home, [or] in school as a player. He’s had tremendous experience. As a player, he wasn’t the best athlete in the world. But those are the guys that sometimes understand the game better because it comes a little tougher to them. They understand what wins and loses, what they have to do to get an advantage and really understand the game, which he does. He inherently understands the game, and not everybody does. And then the icing on the cake, he gets to spend a few years up with Steve [Kerr] at Golden State with a great organization, and a great group.
“So, he’s way more than ready to handle this situation. But it’s a situation that’s gonna take time. It’s a process. And it certainly doesn’t need any outside chatter from people who don’t have a clue and haven’t gotten over themselves.”
Defense wins titles and the Spurs c0ach has won enough rings to execute the perfect defense for the Los Angeles Lakers bench tactician against an offensive attack that he considers way out of their league.
After this statement, Popovich ought to be called “The Professor” — no disrespect to the streetball legend. He just delivered a compelling lesson about a topic that actually bares little weight, but he managed to combine values education together with biology to come up with a speech that resonates all the way to Lithuania.
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