The Los Angeles Lakers’ title inside the bubble in the NBA’s restart in Orlando not only sealed the franchise’s 17th title, it also proved LaVar Ball wrong. LaVar memorably declared the Lakers would not win a title again after trading away his son Lonzo, a statement that was proven wrong within one season.
And if anyone expected LaVar to backtrack on his statement, they were sorely wrong. On his appearance on Club Shay Shay with Shannon Sharpe, Ball was asked about his comments, the Lakers winning the title and if he was impressed.
“Heck no. They in the bubble. They’re in the bubble and all this stuff goes right. Like I told them, they need to send me a Thank You card on the fact that I gave incentive to win. I said they’d never ever, ever, ever win. You know they was talking about that the whole year. What did you say last year that somebody remembers? That’s how I be living in people’s heads…just so they can say ‘I told you that you was wrong.’ I still go to bed, take me a nap, eat my donuts and I don’t think about nothing. They’ve been thinking about this for a whole year.”
Ball did later add in the post that he was still a Lakers fan because he grew up in California, but his compliments could only go so far.
“I’m glad they won. Lakers is always my team because I’m from LA. But the success that they had, I mean you’re in the bubble playing in the same place. You’ve got the two best players. You’re supposed to win.”
LaVar is rarely one to admit he was wrong even in blatantly obvious situations where he is wrong. But it’s part of what makes LaVar the character people can’t get enough of.
