With the NBA and all sports across the world coming to a halt, LaVar Ball has stepped up to fill in the void in the news cycle.
Ball made his inaugural appearance on the Pardon My Take podcast on Friday and answered a wide variety of questions. One of the funnier questions that produced a very on-brand answer from Ball came when the host asked if Ball could beat Zion Williamson.
“Stop it. I’ll murder that boy. He too small…he too slow. I’m way too fast for that boy. He’s a youngster man. My prime time I would kill him. I’m way too strong and fast.”
The two went back and forth joking about the topic before the host got a bit more serious and asked if, during Ball’s time in college at Washington State, he could have handled playing against Williamson.
LaVar: “Well definitely if I had a different coach he’d be struggling against me. But with Kelvin Sampson? Oh he would kill us.
Host: “Wait, are you trying to get your former coach fired?”
LaVar: “Former coach fired? He should have been fired. After you don’t let the Big Baller play for a season? That’s when they had their worst season when I averaged 2.2 points. I only played 2.2 seconds. If I played longer, they would have been winners. But that’s on the fact that he wanted to show how tough he is and not play a stallion. You have to let a stallion loose. And that’s why their record was terrible.”
Williamson is just the latest in the number of players Ball says he can take one-on-one. Most memorably, Ball has stated on multiple occasions he could hang with and defeat Michael Jordan one-on-one.
Despite Williamson being the teammate to Lonzo, this also isn’t the first time LaVar has stated someone in the Ball family could beat him one-on-one. Last spring, LaVar proclaimed that LiAngelo would also be too strong for Williamson and could take him one-on-one.
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