LaVar Ball, the father of UCLA freshman Lonzo Ball, and UCLA basketball commits LiAngelo and LaMelo, has made the media rounds in the past few weeks and has said some pretty outlandish comments.
Earlier in the week, TNT analyst Charles Barkley openly challenged the elder Ball to a game of one-on-one.
Via ESPN
Once I found out he averaged two points a game [in college]. … Listen, you need to slow your roll,” Barkley said of Ball. “He says I didn’t win a championship. I said to myself, ‘I need to go back and Google this guy, because maybe I missed the Ball era, when he was dominating and winning championships everywhere else.’ Listen, I’m too old and fat to play basketball, but I’ll challenge Mr. Ball to a one-on-one. How about that?
“I don’t even know how old he is — he’s got to be around my age — but no guy who averaged two points a game can beat me at one-on-one. I’m positive of that.”
During his press tour, Ball fired back at Barkley over his comments.
He wants to play one-and-one and all this, and he says I averaged two points, ‘Who cares?'” “… I know he don’t want to play one-on-one because he’s too big. He better stay behind that TNT thing … and eat them doughnuts.”
TNT took to Instagram and posted this hilarious video ripping on Ball.