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Since being selected by the Los Angeles Lakers with the second overall pick in this year’s draft, there has been a tremendous level of expectations set forth on rookie point guard Lonzo Ball’s shoulders. In light of that, he has worked toward getting himself physically prepared to play his first NBA season as his father, […]

At seemingly every opportunity he gets, LaVar Ball has voiced nothing but praise towards his son, Lonzo, who is set to begin his rookie campaign with the Los Angeles Lakers. During this entire process, the young Ball has been consistently compared to former All-Star point guard Jason Kidd due to his size and passing ability. […]

Prior to the Los Angeles Lakers selecting Lonzo Ball with the second overall pick, his father, LaVar Ball, dominated the headlines. From his controversial statements to Big Baller Brand, Ball has become a polarizing figure in all of sports. According to ESPN, Jay-Z has bought three pairs of Big Baller Brand shoes to show support: […]

LaVar Ball got his own reality show green-lit by Facebook last month. Last week, Variety reported that the series titled, “Ball in the Family“, will be one of a handful of shows funded by the social media giant for their Facebook Watch platform. “Ball in the Family” is one part of an effort to kick-start […]

LaVar Ball owned up to his promised accepted challenge issues by Ice Cube to beat him in a 4-point shot contest during halftime of the Los Angeles Big3 showcase. Ice Cube won the contest 2-1, but Ball didn’t seem bothered by it and was in fact in a pretty good mood taking pictures with onlookers […]

The challenge between Ice Cube and LaVar Ball finally happened on Sunday inside the Staples Center. With the Big3 in town for their Week 8 action, the CEO of Big Baller Brand was courteous enough to accept the league founder’s invitation to grace their visit at the Los Angeles Lakers’ home court, and also for […]

LaVar Ball brought his youngest son, LaMelo, to the BIG3 regular-season finale at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, only to be welcomed with loud cheers after appearing on the venue’s big screen. Staples Center crowd cheers loudly for LaVar Ball pic.twitter.com/lbpG3MGbDF — Jovan Buha (@jovanbuha) August 13, 2017 While he has definitely […]

Rapper and BIG3 owner Ice Cube invited LaVar Ball to attempt a halftime four-point shot during the Los Angeles event at Staples Center on Sunday. The gist of the challenge is if he makes the shot, Ice Cube promises to buy a pair of Big Baller Brand ZO2 shoes for each player on Ball’s AAU […]

Earlier this summer, BIG3 creator Ice Cube took to social media to issue a challenge to LaVar Ball to attempt his league’s four-point shot. In light of the BIG3 coming to Los Angeles this upcoming weekend to play at Staples Center, Ball has made it clear that he has accepted the wager set. Challenge accepted […]

There is no one that has made more headlines this summer across any sport more than LaVar Ball, and to make that feat even more impressive — he doesn’t actually play a sport. Whether it was his loud, confrontational style or his cartoon-esque ability to hype his Lonzo to a No. 2 overall selection, one […]

Back in May, LaVar Ball and Ice Cube figured in a back-and-forth on social media where the BIG3 founder issued a four-point shot challenge to Ball for 10 pairs of the ZO2s. Ball quickly responded with an Instagram video, letting Ice Cube know that he accepts it. He then added his own twist to the […]

Big Baller Brand is still on the lookout for a partner willing to invest in helping become a dual brand, and the first of its kind. That recently led owner LaVar Ball to Chinese company Anta, after failing to convince Nike and Adidas and Under Armour, that his billion dollar asking price is a worthwhile […]

For all his ridiculous statements and polarizing personality, LaVar Ball seems to know better to stay in his lane on matters concerning the Los Angeles Lakers. When it comes to the side-circus that he carries, LaVar Ball is the father of an NBA rookie. But on the stuff that really matters, he is Lonzo Ball’s […]

At the 2017 NBA Draft, the Los Angeles Lakers selected Lonzo Ball with the second overall pick. With Ball being the team’s point guard of the future, President of Basketball Operations Magic Johnson and general manager Rob Pelinka traded D’Angelo Russell and Timofey Mozgov to the Brooklyn Nets to create cap space for 2018 free […]

There comes a point when somebody has got to stop potty-mouthed LaVar Ball from spewing outrageous (and oftentimes inappropriate) quips to the media. At long last, one vigilant soul has finally taken action to clean up LaVar’s act. Well, not exactly his act, but rather his unmissable set of tainted teeth. On July 16, a user […]

LaVar Ball has consistently been part of a lot headlines the past few months, and a number of players, coaches, and members of the basketball community have given their opinion about him. That said, it seemed like it was just a matter of time before one of the NBA’s “bad boys” will give his take […]

Not one to back down from a daunting challenge, LaVar Ball just upped the ante in his on-going feud with NBA legend, Michael Jordan. After Jordan claimed that he could beat Ball 1-on-1 with only one leg, Ball went on a local radio show in Cleveland (H/T ESPN) to raise the stakes by saying that […]

If anyone even thought to entertain the cartoonish idea of LaVar Ball taking on Michael Jordan in a game of one-on-one basketball, here’s a thought to put that to rest. Unlike his son Lonzo, LaVar only averaged 2.2 points per game in his short-lived career at Washington State, scoring a total of 56 career points, […]

After much talk about his potential against some of the NBA’s greats, Michael Jordan finally addressed yet another of the many obnoxious claims by the loudmouthed LaVar Ball, who said he’d make Jordan “cry” in a game of one-on-one. “You gotta understand the source,” said Jordan after being asked about the claims during a Q&A […]

With all the antics and even absurd statements LaVar Ball has made the past few months, it’s easy to think that he does not have a lot of people supporting him. However, ESPN’ Jay Bilas recently admitted that he has enjoyed watching Ball, and even finds him very entertaining. But his perception changed when Ball […]

Adidas has sent out an apology statement after Friday morning’s AAU scandal with a female referee who was replaced mid-game, as tournament organizers acquiesced to LaVar Ball‘s ultimatum of having her sent off the game or having his team removed from the event. “The referee substitutions made during our tournament last week are not in […]

Court Club Elite, the supplier of referees to the annual Adidas Uprising Summer Championships and other basketball events, has cut ties with the shoe and apparel giant, stemming from the incident wherein they allowed LaVar Ball to remove a female official from a game. The organization did not take things lightly as they were not pleased […]

Even outside the basketball court, LaVar Ball is getting called for technical fouls. At least that’s what it looked after the NBA Referees Association, through Twitter, unloaded a series of tweets, each expressing their displeasure on how Ball played a part in replacing a female referee in the middle of an AAU game, which involved […]

LaVar Ball was once again in the headlines again after being involved in a situation where he played a hand in a female referee being taken out of an AAU basketball. It didn’t take long for Ball to provide his perspective on why things transpired in that manner on Friday night, according to Jeff Borzello […]

In the last few months, LaVar Ball has become essentially a constant soundboard for head-scratching statements. Ball was at once again when he was recently asked about if he would run for president in the future and gave a response that threw some shade at Nike. Watch more This was clearly a spur of the […]

LaVar Ball is a master at getting his name and brand in today’s NBA media cycle, creating scenarios for himself that end up making a four-time NBA champion release a diss track about him. Shaquille O’Neal released a hilarious yet clever diss track on LaVar Ball yesterday that pretty much summed up why LaVar needs to […]

Shaquille O’Neal has a history of rapping and diss tracks. He famously unleashed on Kobe Bryant after he won a championship with the Miami Heat in 2006. Now his target is LaVar Ball. Here it is in all of its glory: https://twitter.com/TheNBACentral/status/891057362521292800 The full lyrics, courtesy of Genius.com: Dudes talking loud, I don’t understand Walking […]

If changing a female referee mid-game after assessing a technical foul on LaVar Ball wasn’t enough of a spectacle, Adidas officials outdid themselves by hand-picking referees that wouldn’t eject the loudmouthed coach of the Big Ballers, according to ESPN’s Myron Medcalf. Following the ref’s ejection, Ball was T’d up yet again with his team trailing […]

LaVar Ball earned his AAU team, the Big Ballers, yet another “L” in the column after refusing to leave the court following his second technical foul of the game, according to Jason Scheer of WildcatAuthority.com This is now the second forfeit of this month during the AAU circuit after LaVar chose to pull his team […]

LaVar Ball once again channeled his inner Vince MacMahon by taking over the show, this time getting a female referee replaced mid-game after she assessed him a technical foul. The outspoken father of Los Angeles Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball was at the Adidas Uprising AAU game, coaching his son LaMelo, who put up a game-high […]

A lot may have already been said about LaVar Ball, especially with his antics the past several months, but one thing that cannot be taken from him is his mastery of getting attention for him and his sons. During the Adidas Uprising game on Wednesday between his Big Baller team versus the Zion Williamson-led SC Supreme […]

LaVar Ball has made it clear over the last several months that he isn’t one to back down from any trash-talk. The most recent chatter involving Ball has surrounded his back-and-forth dialogue with Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal. Ball added more flame toward O’Neal aimed at the fact that he believes nobody is buying merchandise […]

LaVar Ball had Big Baller aspirations for his son LaMelo Ball, expecting him to score between 40 and 50 points against No. 2 high school senior prospect Zion Williamson and his AAU team SC Supreme. “I don’t know man, 40? 50?,” Ball told Overtime about a potentially epic night for his son. “He just gonna […]

The LaVar Ball show didn’t just enhance the spectacle that the Adidas Uprising Summer Championship game was bound to be, but integrated with it, making it a jam-packed, fan-frenzied even unlike the AAU circuit had seen in more than a decade. The game seated roughly 4,000 people, with another 1,500 waiting outside as local police had […]

Another week in the NBA offseason wouldn’t be complete without the Ball family in the news. And boy, does good ol’ LaVar have another doozy of a hot take for basketball fans to gush over. Overtime recently shared a clip of the elder Ball being asked whether or not he and and his youngest son, […]

Big human being and NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal has been away from the game since 2011, but that’s not hampering him from grabbing headlines. Always with a gregarious personality, O’Neal never fails to entertain his fans with his antics and jokes — sometimes at the expense of other people. This time, it’s LaVar Ball and his […]

The word “surrender” is quite the taboo term in the sport of basketball. Nobody wants to be criticized for giving up on any situation, and yet that’s exactly what LaVar Ball did. Ball, whose son LaMelo is the star player of his Big Ballers AAU squad, decided to forfeit from a crucial playoff game this past weekend despite his son’s […]

Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid is a very active personality on social media. He is not shy to call out something that he does not like, or to ask famous pop stars out. One thing that he certainly did not like is what LaVar Ball was talking about before the 2017 NBA Draft. While Ball […]

For coaches at the amateur level, sportsmanship is among the most basic of lessons that they need to engrain in their players. However, LaVar Ball’s recent action proved to be an unfortunate example to the kids he’s coaching. The father of the Lakers’ prized rookie Lonzo Ball was coaching his Big Baller team at the […]