VIDEO: LaVar Ball Says All His Sons Will Be on the Lakers Eventually and That's Never Going to Happen
By Nick Porr
LaVar Ball, father of New Orleans Pelicans guard Lonzo Ball, NBA G League player LiAngelo Ball, and 2020 NBA Draft prospect LaMelo Ball,, is no stranger to rampant and grandiose speculation. He spits an endless amount of baseless hot takes, including that he and his youngest son would beat LeBron James and Michael Jordan in a pickup game. Now, just a few months after claiming his three sons will team up on the New York Knicks, LaVar is claiming that the three will soon be on the Los Angeles Lakers.
So far, Lonzo is the only Ball brother in the NBA. He was drafed No. 2 overall by the Los Angeles Lakers in 2017, but was traded to New Orleans in the Anthony Davis trade last year.
LiAngelo has yet to even play an NBA game, and has zero clear path to the Lakers whatsoever. LaMelo is a top prospect in the 2020 draft, but the Lakers will not have a lottery pick due to their status as the Western Conference's best team up until the NBA season was halted indefinitely.
LaVar's claim that all three of his sons will play together on the Lakers at some point is absurd for so many reasons, but mostly due to the fact that LiAngelo is likely never going to stick around in the league. It's as simple as that. Unlike his younger brother, "Gelo" is not a touted prospect; in early March, he signed with the Oklahoma City Thunder's G League affiliate, the Oklahoma City Blue, and hasn't set the world on fire.
Although it would do wonders for Lavar Ball's massive ego to have his sons all together on the NBA's premier franchise, it's nothing more than a fabulist father's pipe dream.