Lonzo Ball silenced LaVar Ball with Alan Foster news: ‘He literally shut up’

This past Saturday, Lonzo Ball joined Travis Scott, Seth Rogen, Don Cheadle and others on LeBron James’s HBO show ‘The Shop’ where Ball was a focal point of the show.

Plenty of personal topics were discussed including meeting LeBron for the first time as well as the whole ordeal that’s transpired with Lonzo’s former business partner and mentor, Alan Foster.

The topic of Ball’s relationship with Foster was discussed in reference to Lonzo’s dad LaVar Ball. Lonzo talked about bringing up the alleged money laundering with Foster to his dad:

“It wasn’t hard. Because people, how they see my dad in the media is how they see him. But me, I can tell him anything. But I would say that’s the first time I called him and he literally shut up. I would say that. I looked at DMo, I had him on speaker, I’m like ‘He ain’t talking.’ He always talking. That was the first time I was like ‘No, you need to listen.’ So, that was hard, Because that was the first time I ever told him like ‘Let me talk.’ And he stopped and I pulled up to the house that night and laid it out for him. And then we been moving forward ever since.”

It was unknown early whether Lonzo was going to sever professional ties with his dad in addition to Foster. LaVar brought Foster into the family business and set him up with Lonzo. It would make sense that Lonzo might want to eliminate all the toxicity from his inner circle, LaVar definitely says and does things that most would consider toxic.

Lonzo, however, has continued to defend his dad and family, and it seems he will still have a relationship with his father, even if it’s not in a professional manner. It has been encouraged by many that Lonzo should keep his dad far away from his basketball life as possible now that he is in the NBA, and the Foster situation presented an opportunity to do so, even if it was an unfortunate opportunity.