Shortly after Lonzo Ball was drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers, his father, LaVar Ball, said that Lonzo would lead the Lakers to the playoffs.
Then, he guaranteed Lonzo would take the Lakers to the playoffs his first year.
When asked if LaVar Ball had once again tasked his son with making good on a gratuitous remark, Lakers Coach Luke Walton agreed that the comments wouldn't help the 19-year-old in his rookie season. "Right now, I'm hoping (Lonzo) leads us to a couple of summer league victories, and we'll take it from there".
Lonzo has acknowledged the extra degree of difficulty created in his career by LaVar's public presence, saying it makes him an easy target for abuse from fans and attention from opponents.
Ball admits his father gives him unwanted notoriety.
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"I tried to tell you I knew it was happening before it was happening", LaVar said on ESPN after the pick. The draft pick comes only two days after the Lakers front office made another big offseason move. Simmons tweeted "crazy pills" immediately after Ball's on-air interview, followed by an even more direct tweet from Embiid. Ball raised his family in the Los Angeles suburbs. I think they have enough talent. "I think if you use a sports analogy in another sport-football-you look at passers like Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers that just have an ability to do something that is so special with where they put the ball and where they deliver it". I think players around the National Basketball Association feel that as well and are going to be attracted to that energy here.
"Magic Johnson is one of the greatest players to ever play... he's the best point guard to ever play, so I can learn a lot of things from him". "He's going to do what he does, and we're going to do what we do, and we're going to get after it here".
"He's his own man", Walton said of the elder Ball.
"That was said about me in college, said about me in high school", he said. "And all I can say is that we walked away from that really impressed with the family".
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