LaVar Ball Rips Patrick Beverley For Going Hard At Lonzo In His NBA Debut

Last night, Patrick Beverley welcomed Lonzo Ball to the NBA and made the young rookie’s NBA debut absolutely miserable. Beverley played tough defense and talked trash to Lonzo during the whole game and held the #2 pick to three points off of 1-6 shooting.

After the game, Beverley admitted that he went extra hard at Lonzo because of his father’s trash talk.

I just had to set the tone, man. I told [Lonzo] after the game, man, [that] due to all the riffraff his dad brings, he’s going to get a lot of people coming at him. He has to be ready for that, and I let him know after the game. What a better way to start off, just 94 feet guarding him tonight…Welcome his little, young ass to the NBA.”

LaVar Ball was non to pleased with Beverley after the game and ripped the Clippers guard for going hard on his son.

Via ESPN

Yeah, you shut the m—–f—– down,” LaVar Ball told ESPN after the game. “And your check still ain’t going to go no higher than what it is. Yeah, you shut him down. OK … Who is Patrick Beverley? He played all last year and nobody said nothing about him. Now we are looking at your first game. Why? Because Lonzo’s name is attached to it.

“So you got to be [all hard],”r. “Let’s see what you do the next five games, if you are going to be pumped up towards everybody like that and go back to your 0-for-5 shooting and your two or three rebounds. Nobody is going to care about you. But you put my son’s name in it and you put my name in it, now you got some action and you got some people talking.”

Feels like every NBA vet is going to go extra hard at Lonzo this season because of LaVar.