Through the midst of yet another words feud, LaVar Ball fired back after Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr called him “the Kardashian of the NBA” following the circus he's helped organize during the Big Baller Brand Showcase in Lithuania.
The Ballfather had yet another puzzling comparison to offer in his rebuttal.
“He’s the Milli Vanilli of coaching,” Ball said in an interview. “What I mean is, you can go stand in the same spot like Luke Walton did and win 20-something games when you’ve got the right horses just running. Sometimes less coaching is the best coaching, but some of these guys like to act like they’ve really coached some guys that know how to play.”
“How do you coach KD [Kevin Durant], Steph Curry, Draymond Green And Klay Thompson? You know how you coach them? You don’t. Turn your back and let them do what they do.”
Ball added that Kerr took all of the credit for the work Mark Jackson helped get started, reshaping the culture of the organization and making the Warriors a team that can contend with a very powerful West.
“That’s why I call him the Milli Vanilli of coaching, because he’s not MJ,” LaVar said. “Not Michael Jackson, but Mark Jackson.”
Kerr and some in the Warriors' front office would have a few things to say about that, as the reason Kerr was hired even when the team was in the upswing was in hopes of maximizing talent. While Jackson is hugely responsible for turning the culture around and holding players accountable, Kerr was the coach tasked with tapping all of their potentials.
Even if Kerr deems coaching four All-Stars as an easy job, it is also a huge credit to him for being able to manage egos the way he does — from convincing a perennial starter to take a sixth man role in Andre Iguodala, to making three top-notch scorers take turns on offense to make their plays work.
As far as Ball is concerned — he's yet to merit any attention from a coach's perspective with zero leads in his coaching resume.
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