lavar ball is donald trump

Ball was asked about dealing with the big shoe companies, and he said they will regret not making a deal with him after his son is picked by the Lakers.

"Now that Lonzo's headed to Los Angeles, what they should have done is give me a billion dollars and let me be on my way," he said.

Told that number was unrealistic, Ball replied, "unrealistic to you."

"Now you know ... if they want to talk to me now, it just went up to $3 billion. Triple B's -- billion, billion, billion," he said, adding: "That's the only way they going to come at me. I'm already in the building. I don't need them for nothing, as you can tell."

A source confirmed to ESPN's Darren Rovell that Ball's asking price with the big shoe companies was indeed $1 billion.

Fox Sports reporter Kristine Leahy, whom Ball earlier referred to as a "hater" and told to "stay in your lane" after she pressed him on the number of shoes sold, argued that for Big Baller Brand to be appealing to the big shoe companies, he would have to market his products to women. Ball scoffed at the idea.

"Yeah, if you have a women's company. ... We're talking about Big Baller Brand," he said.

Later in the interview, after several tense exchanges with Leahy, Ball said: "I never disrespect women, but I tell you what, if you act like that, something's coming to you and it's OK."

right down to leahy as megyn kelly

A source confirmed to ESPN's Darren Rovell that Ball's asking price with the big shoe companies was indeed $1 billion.

lol perfect deadpan

wonder how long itll take before lonzo realizes he has millions of dollars and can make his own better decisions

lonzo gonna fall to the kings at this rate

seriously what are the chances the lakers pass on Lonzo because his dad is a lunatic. i would say extremely low but i'm sure there are discussions abt him going on right now.

ray donovan will take care of it

but I want to be clear that I do not watch the terrible show ray donovan

is it true that Lonzo dissed Magic and Kobe because lol

lavar apparently believes that the strongest hand you can play is to pretend you hold four aces, not realizing that your opponent has a couple of aces in their hand and know how to count.

idk about that but it is true that lonzo tweeted a list of top 5 alltime rappers that included both dmx and 50 cent.

accurate

i am glad we have a thread where i can log on and say fuck lavar ball, the trash guy who sucks

lmao hes really trying to sell 3 for $10 style garments for $500

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DA7T_bLXYAIH_cZ.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DA7UAZ8XcAERT5x.jpg

like?? a shirt with a cutting catchphrase on it ppl will be wanting this shit

my latest theory is that lavar has concluded that the best way to make money out of his kids is to raise his media profile as high as possible and hope lightning strikes. he's correct to think that being a boastful, trash-talking, loud-mouthed quote machine will get him notoriety in the sports media, but he's still a long way from figuring out how he can personally cash in on that.

i find the way these aau videos are shot and edited to be soothing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94BJh-WDf6M

I sometimes wonder who the first already in the NBA guy to sign with BBB could be, if we lived in a fantasy where that could happen. Javale? JR?

This dude LaMelo Ball has to be the worst person imaginable to play with pic.twitter.com/QGsUPLha6w

— NBA All Access (@nballaccess) May 28, 2017

every single second of that is actually worse than anything i could imagine

ive watched a bunch lamelo ball clips and its weird hes totally affectless like when the guy pushes him in that tweet and he just turns and walks away like he didnt even notice, he scored 90 in a game and didnt celebrate once

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/report-lavar-ball-turned-10-million-shoe-contracts-son-lonzo-183900817.html

LaVar originally sought a 10-year, $10 billion shoe deal

lol wuuuut

nbd just a billi a year easy

LaVar Ball pulled Big Ballers off court in AAU playoffs

In a game they were winning 👀

🎥: https://t.co/fk3WKCIIPJ pic.twitter.com/isac56iagx

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) July 23, 2017

Y'all. I can't stop watching. pic.twitter.com/7y7saZDgxm

— victoria (@CountOnVic) July 23, 2017

http://deadspin.com/lavar-ball-throws-hissy-fit-gets-female-referee-replac-1797339573

jeez that last clip.... ugh what a dingbat

you misspelled "dickhead"

it sucks how in the world entertaining loons always turn out to be terrible psychos

yeah i mean mission accomplished apparently there were 45,000 people at the ZIon vs Lamelo game last week.

if only we had a good case study covering the potential long-term dangers of elevating terrible people into positions of pop culture authority

haaaaa

lmao

from now on I vow to ignore any and all """news""" items about this fuckhead. life is too short and yeah it's not good to give these types any attention.

i kind of feel sad for anyone out there now coming around to the fact that this guy is trash, it must be nice to think the best of people

Ha. I guess I didn't really come around til his cowherd appearance.

i like to give weird ppl on the tv the benefit of the doubt

I played football and baseball, sorry, but said to be the best bball player in N.Y. State-ask coach Ted Dobias-said best he ever coached.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 3, 2013

hahahahaha

lmao

another one for the file http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/20520784/high-school-junior-lamelo-ball-now-signature-shoe-395

was listening to incarcerated scarfaces in the car today and "guess who's the black trump" made me think of this thread :/

lmao

So many trump name drops in hip hop history.

so lamelo is technically ineligible to play college ball now right?

article says if hes not getting paid its ok

Did lavar ball really say something about nas that was not of the highest respects concerning hip hop? You have been warned #cursed - Lil B

— Lil B THE BASEDGOD (@LILBTHEBASEDGOD) September 2, 2017

*it was lonzo

well

Now that the three basketball players are out of China and saved from years in jail, LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo, is unaccepting of what I did for his son and that shoplifting is no big deal. I should have left them in jail!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 19, 2017

its happening

2017 really is the best

neither can live while the other survives

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/deathbattlefanon/images/a/af/Gyaos_Gif.gif/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/180?cb=20150826010049

Steve Kerr on the Trump, LaVar stuff: "Two people seeking attention...It'd be nice if you stopped covering both of them." pic.twitter.com/qwfL7I8sFr

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) November 19, 2017

wow steve if u dont like drama maybe log off

love woj's new advice column

@wojespn
LiAngelo Ball will struggle to find a serious job playing pro ball, including the G-League. ESPN’s Mike_Schmitz projected him in HS as a small-ball stretch 4-man at the mid-major college level. Would make sense for him to find a scholarship at lower level and stay in school.

yeah ucla just took him on as part of a ball bro package deal and dropped him the second they cld, if he was a valuable player they wldve suspended him a few games then called it a day

lol https://sports.yahoo.com/report-lakers-now-enforcing-called-lavar-ball-rule-restrict-media-access-162956864.html

LaVar Ball spoke to @tailopez on his YouTube channel about how to fix the Lakers' losing. Second photo is the most interesting. (And here's the video: https://t.co/q2G9LOjuBW): pic.twitter.com/pF8AY7fHj5

— Jovan Buha (@jovanbuha) December 10, 2017

i agree that lavar should be the coach of the lakers

its the right thing

for the greater good

lavar publicly criticizing the lakers' $25 million coach 25 games into the season... who could've seen this coming

my god drafting lonzo was a catastrophe

lakers are playing ok, is that in spite of linzo's bad shooting or bc he brings other things to the team?

lakers have lost 10 out of their last 15 which prob isnt much of a reflection on lonzo but he is bad

oh ha, been out of the loop. they started out ok

yeah theyve been pretty bad since then tho are prob better than the really bad teams chicago sacto et al

of course it only takes an injury or two or for them to give up on defense as bad teams often do for them to slide (i am rooting for them to slide since the celtics own their pick)

theyre probably about where they should be considering their inexperience/age and such. Kobe had some good points about them recently
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DQqIRiqWsAAxfpA.jpg:large

yeah its def foolish to expect young players to win the lakers problem is more that theyll be lucky if one of their young players matures into a star

a patient impatience

dark musings

would you rather have brandon ingram or jaylen brown

brown, tho ingram is def showing signs this year his game still pretty fd up, brown is already very solid his floor is way higher, ingram maybe has a higher ceiling tho he cant shoot so far, brown is 40% from 3 idk

obvs the context of their teams/roles makes a comparison difficult

brown seems like he has a better mindtype too

brown, love 2 favor system guys

i think having watched a lot of brown i'm a little less high on him than some ppl and having watched a little ingram i find him interesting tho not even close to a complete player so i'm probably not qualified to answer this question.

brown is just like a little mechanical in a way that makes me think his basketball instincts will limit him. good rotation player, starter. not more than that.

p sure celtics will be happy with that tho

i think i'd probably still take ingram bcuz of his ceiling as a scorer but jaylen may be a more "winning" player

i wanted to crap on the lakers for taking ingram no. 2 overall but but that draft was pretty terrible

brown at his current trajectory will prob make an allstar team at some point, hes def a lil mechanical but its crazy how well he plays for a mechanical 21 y/o, and hes got a lot of time to get less mechanical, if u had told me this time last year that hed be shooting 40% i wldve said no that doesnt sound right but youre the one from the future i guess, what im trying to say is his jump shot was rough as hell, its still far from perfect but its a shit ton better than it was

ingram shot poorly in college and continues to shoot poorly which isnt as good from a shooting perspective

u know who else is mechanical kawhi leonard now he is the best player

yeah i was thinking the same there are some super athletic huge wing types who have overcome being mechanical and looking like they only play basketball because theyre built for it to ascend to star status your kawhis and your paul georges and people of that nature, not saying brown is gonna get there but hes def already proven hes a guy who knows how to work on his game, and obvs also has a great learning/coaching situation and a role he can grow into at his own pace

+ he has the goggles

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DQkpqErUEAAsYgo.jpg

idk why but jaylen always looks shorter to me than he's listed. i feel like he'll need to add a lot more offensive skill to become a truly great offensive player... it's hard to imagine him just pulling up and shooting over guys off the dribble consistently and things of that nature. he's already pretty good in the post tho? and at worst he'll be one of the best 3 and D wings in the league... an igoudala-like role seems like a decent midpoint for his potential.

like...sixers, nugs, or warriors iggy?

prime iggy was a very good player that level of solid all starship wld be a fine outcome for sure, i know its weird he doesnt look great out there but hes already quite effective which makes me think hes got a pretty high ceiling, like he looks like hes playing at half speed most of the time just ramping up the pace which one wld think is something that will come with experience will make him a lot better

its seems doubtful hell ever be an elite scorer but i cld easily see him as a 18-20pts a game with all world D type of guy

i mean shit hes already scoring 15pts in 30mins in a crowd of 3rd options maybe he will be an elite scorer

i mean iggy in general in that he would be overstretched as a lead scorer/#1 option on offense but as a potential versatile elite defender who can hit 3s and put the ball on the floor when need be he would be very valuable

sounds about right

this is good (marc stein talks to kevin martin about weird shooting strokes): https://t.co/JhSxmc0UPB

fran!

Prominant former American player who played for Ball brothers's new coach had some insight on him: 1. Competent coach w/free-wheeling pick-and-roll offense. 2. Speaks no English 3. Screams the entire game. 4. Sold meat out of his car trunk to his players after practice. I swear.

— Fran Fraschilla (@franfraschilla) December 12, 2017

fran is so great

oh yeah he's the best.

that is top quality reporting for sure

oh man it's EXTREMELY hard to pick one pic of the ball's new lithuanian coach

https://www.tv3.lt/usi/980x654/3/7d/23/c3/7d23c3804ca7567673a05e2a7c39b1e8.jpg?v=4.0.4.20&t=cr&s=980x654&m=3&f=/Uploads/UArticles/leadPhotos/f8/11/6a/51/f8116a519c66bf15a645db5da334110c.jpg

they had to meet with him! unreal.
https://sports.yahoo.com/lakers-asked-lavar-ball-tone-criticism-well-see-goes-173309862.html

lol at all the coverage of lithuanian basketball

The Better Business Bureau has given the Big Baller Brand the lowest rating possible: an F.

On its website, the organization says Big Baller Brand's ratings are based on 32 complaints filed against the business, a failure to respond to 12 of those complaints and five complaints that still haven't been resolved.

Most of the complaints are from people who said they bought an item from the Big Baller website in November and December, and that they were charged for their orders even though that item or items have failed to show up.

"Better Business Bureau is as outdated as the Yellow Pages," LaVar Ball said, in a text, to ESPN. "Who cares about them? Tell them that Yelp! has replaced the Better Business Bureau. We honestly thought the Better Business Bureau was out of business. The new BBB stands for the Big Baller Brand."

that is an extremely donald trump quote

"the new USA stands for United Stable Geniuses of the US"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTEJMJ-VwAAKaWG.jpg:large

what's that from?

kerr

The refs in LaMelo and LiAngelo Ball's first pro game in Lithuania are wearing [squints], yep, that's Big Baller Brand. pic.twitter.com/cL2BIpOtAE

— SB Nation (@SBNation) January 9, 2018

wow!

gonna have to change the name of the country to LiThuania

coaches not liking that story

After LaVar Ball story, Stan Van Gundy says he’ll deny ESPN its usual access https://t.co/GB9jSyp8yy

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) January 9, 2018

That spin tho. 😂 pic.twitter.com/6Mg3UWUEqS

— J.E. Skeets (@jeskeets) January 9, 2018

the lavar story is interesting, on one hand he’s clearly mentally ill and ESPN’s coverage of him is tabloid trash. otoh carlisle was saying things like ESPN owed it to the NBA, its “partner”, to avoid pushing these stories. so this van gundy comment is concerning given the context

the coaches def arent in this to protect journalism

i guess i can see why ppl cover lavar -- he's crazy, says crazy shit, and is a godsend for the hot-take machine. and i guess that extends somewhat to lonzo, despite his being the second-best rookie on a last-place team

but who are these people who want updates about teenagers playing in lithuania? it's not the offseason, there are actual nba games happening now! plus actual college games involving trae young, etc! i mean tebow was at least sent by god to spread his good word and has a built-in audience; why does anyone care about the lesser balls?

because it's weird to send your teen sons to play in lithuania b/c you're killing time until they're allowed to sign with the lakers.

some other players have done it eg brandon jennings tho no one as young as the youngest ball afaik

Nothing will prepare you for the rigors of the NBA like playing hoops against kristaps' homunculi.

i'd be more intrigued if they were playing in magnitogorsk and all their road games involved eight-hour flights on afghan-war-era troop transports like the wnba players get

people care for the same reason people care about all the kardashian siblings

man cmon the kardashians are legends in this game the balls cant even get one show have some respect

lonzo is the star of netflix's fuller house iirc

some other players have done it eg brandon jennings

at least he played in italy!

I have the inside scoop that indeed tons of middle/high schooler athletic kids love and religiously watch Ball in the Family.

the balls are fellow teens that have teen haircuts

someone shd watch it and report back

jfc man

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DV3E9V2XUAEgpkD.jpg

solid plan, tough to argue with

lakers gonna max IT and dump ball

Poor Gelo and Melo :(

gelos not gonna make the league, melo will prob get drafted, the plan is a non starter, maybe some team will sign gelo to their g league team idk

I'd like to see Melo at least play in one of the better Lithuanian basketball leagues before I'd draft him

all the hs basketball sites have him listed as a 5 star prospect which doesnt guarantee getting drafted especially since hes only (the age of) a junior but it does give him a pretty good shot

there's prob a few players in the NBA worth three roster spots but i don't think lonzo is going to be one of them

wonder if the lakers wld take a mulligan on drafting ball just based on this wacky dad

there's prob a few players in the NBA worth three roster spots but i don't think lonzo is going to be one of them

― J0rdan S., Monday, February 12, 2018 4:52 PM (twenty-six minutes ago)

I think if lebron's GM misadventures have taught us anything it's that this is not true

Gelo and Melo
Gelo and Melo
Gelo and Melo
Gelo and Melo
Gelo and Melo
Gelo and MeloGelo and Melo
Gelo and MeloGelo and MeloGelo and MeloGelo and MeloGelo and MeloGelo and Melo

i love saying that

this is my brother darryl, and that's my other brother darryl

I think if lebron's GM misadventures have taught us anything it's that this is not true

― k3vin k., Monday, February 12, 2018 5:19 PM (yesterday) Bookmark

if lebron's GM misadventures have taught us anything it's that it is true? tho maybe just for him

there were years there where lebron + james jones + udonis haslem was basically a three person lebron james roster spot that every team would have accepted in a heartbeat

lebron + james jones + *mike miller

Will you? pic.twitter.com/JiW5HK9oGY

— Big Baller Brand (@bigballerbrand) February 14, 2018

Wow, I will not, thanks

lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBu12zfP0Vs&feature=youtu.be

ooph

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBu12zfP0Vs

only watched a couple minutes but there seems to be a lot of driving and missing layups?

kinda cruel to take a 16 y/o from a situation where he was free to play like a bigger chucker than anyone wld dare in a pickup game and make him go against adults who are good at basketball

somehow melo's form is worse than lonzos. in general just looks like your average 16 year old hot shot at the local open gym who thinks he's way better than he is and who no one wants to play with.

dont think lavar's doing this for the hoops tho, the end goal for this fam is to be famous for being famous a la the kardashians n them

melos shot is all over the place too the only consistent thing abt it is the very low release point

he always looks like a little kid heaving the ball

lavars methods are, unconventional

he managed to get all three of his kids to play at least D1 level basketball while being completely fundamentally unsound

tho gelo does actually seem to play pretty solid has a normal shot and some good post footwork, but hes the worst one lol

yeah he's bad, melos ceiling is higher but doubt he gets there

maybe melo will learn basketball having to play against real players in europe but yeah i dont like his chances either, also if he ends up one of these quasi washout 4 star recruits who get looks in the 2nd round teams might just pass cause they dont want to deal with lavar

yup

gelo looks like he could hang in europe if he learned to play defense. both of them on some unconscionable matador shit.

yeah a lot of ppl were saying hes an end of the bench D1 player but he looks more like a solid D1 player

depends on the D1 school

yeah i mean hes prob not getting minutes at kentucky but seems like he cld help most teams

i was dying at how many times one of them totally lost his man, realized it, and then just went to guard the closest guy to him while the guy he was supposed to guard was off scoring buckets.

thats practice incompetence, plausible switchability

hah

http://mag.bleacherreport.com/the-lamelo-show/

good piece

sounds grim over there

breaking

Yahoo Sports story: LiAngelo Ball enters the 2018 NBA draft. https://t.co/AL63yRsTZL

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) March 27, 2018

undrafted for sure

Can't wait for Lavar to undermine LiAngelo's g-league coaches.

Our boys are comin' home!!

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23317012/battling-injuries-liangelo-lamelo-ball-leave-lithuania-bc-vytautas

"Luke Walton was the worst coach he ever had. It was Magic Johnson who said he was going to be the dang face of the franchise. But Magic ain't doing no coaching. And the only person to kill Lonzo is the coach pulling him out and not having no confidence in him. Everyone who's had confidence in Lonzo just let him go and let him win. That's what he does. He wins. Luke Walton turned him into a loser. A loser's mentality is like, 'Oh, he's young, he'll get it.' Instead of just letting him go out there and do what he does."

lol I knew it would come to this

Everyone who's had confidence in Lonzo just let him go and let him win.

Someone should tell Lavar that the NBA is a different beast than high school, club, or college hoops. Lavar may be on the make, but this is the big leagues of people on the make and he needs to up his game if he wants to compete.

lol larvar was holding that in for so long

surprised he was able to keep it in that long

big baller brand

LaVar Ball says Lonzo is better than LeBron "He getting old"....then takes shot at LeBron's free throw shooting "He's been in the league a long time to not be able to hit no free throws" pic.twitter.com/59PisEPhQX

— gifdsports (@gifdsports) February 7, 2019

dont really know why i post in here just giving him more attention but going at lebron and the lakers this heavy is pretty reckless. i was thinking all of the young players should come out and demand a trade and just sit out if they arent traded

Lonzo is better than LeBron................

Lolzo Ball

lonbro jame

Why doesn’t Lavar speak into existence a better shot for Lonzo?

think Lonzo ever gonna grow a pair and tell dad to stfu?

not too likely from what I can see. imagine growing up browbeaten every day, and being told that all your success is due to your dad riding you like a saddle horse.

this is an actual good point

LaVar Ball on LeBron's role with the Lakers:

"If nobody follows, you're not leading; you're just out there" pic.twitter.com/t6Kvl7QvLc

— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) February 7, 2019

Bron: Follow my lead to win a championship.

Lakers: Uh. Say wha'?

more like follow my lead while my agency backchannels to trade your asses.

yup

apparently lonzo and his brothers have all unfollowed bbb and lonzo will shortly be signing with nike

woe

I still believe in bbb

one of my Ss is very into bbb and the balls

I would love to find a BBB shirt for cheap so I could wear it as a joke in the future

the future is now

Lonzo Ball covers up Big Baller Brand tattoo (with some dice) https://t.co/NbgKMN4IGm

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) March 27, 2019

lavar may be donald, but maybe the ball boys aren't the trump kids

wait until lavar goes after Obamacare. then the analogy will be complete.

gonna get ugly

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/26428048/lakers-ball-files-suit-bbb-co-founder

he seemed like such an easy guy to work with

One of the headaches and near-debacles of the final stretch of Johnson’s tenure came in late February. In what could have been a catastrophe, the Lakers needed to prevent point guard Lonzo Ball from undergoing a potential unauthorized surgery on his left ankle that was planned by estranged former business partner Alan Foster and with LaVar Ball’s knowledge, multiple team and league sources told The Athletic.

Lonzo Ball traveled to Ohio in late February to potentially go through with a procedure on his injured ankle, pushed by Foster, a source familiar with the situation told The Athletic. The family had experience with the doctor who would perform the procedure as he had also operated on LiAngelo Ball, the source said.

The Lakers found out about Ball’s situation when Lonzo Ball called General Manager Rob Pelinka, and the organization informed him that they would not allow it and could void his contract, sources said. This could have been a disastrous moment for the Lakers, with a core player potentially undergoing a procedure that could have blindsided the organization. But Johnson and Lakers General Manager Rob Pelinka communicated with those around Lonzo, working with his then-agent Harrison Gaines to squash the procedure and bring him back to Los Angeles, sources around the team with knowledge of the situation said. Gaines declined to comment when reached by phone.

per shams in athletic

wtffffffff

lavar should coach the team, couldn't be much worse in the standings and i would watch every game

otm

Lonzo has permanently covered his BBB tattoo 🎲 (via @RockRollG) pic.twitter.com/mtFBuaBJAt

— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) March 27, 2019

done by someone who had heard of dice but had never actually seen them.

lol

someone who never took a basic drawing class on any level to learn the fundamentals of perspective

It’s true dice look like dominoes left out in the sun too long

for having a "tough" image, 99% tattoos are hella corny/lame huh

yeah its very rare that i see a tat that i like

i like bad tats i feel like its the culture, some bad dice thats cool, a very beautiful well thought out tattoo is just nerd stuff

I’m generally ok with tats I guess but leg tats weird me out

i like bad tats i feel like its the culture, some bad dice thats cool, a very beautiful well thought out tattoo is just nerd stuff

― lag∞n, Friday, April 19, 2019 11:40 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

really just depends i guess idk bad tats can be fine.

bad tats are bad imo

a bad tat is like an ugly couch sitting in the middle of your living room for the rest of your life. the best you can manage is to throw a bedspread over it, but you'll always feel the bad springs and saggy cushions.

hes back

"I don't know what they're gonna do, but I hope he gets traded. I don't like watching him play lie he plays... He can't stand New Orleans, come on man."

LaVar Ball when asked about Lonzo Ball and the NBA trade deadline 👀 pic.twitter.com/OYR6R2NCw0

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) March 18, 2021

i really didn't need an at&t commercial starring him