One of the more enjoyable semi-regular NBA-related segments has been Jimmy Kimmel’s Mean Tweets bits. Every few months on Jimmy Kimmel Live, pandemic pending, the show will welcome on NBA players and those associated with the league to read mean tweets from random Twitter accounts and get a raw reaction.
On Tuesday night, Kimmel revived the segment and included LaVar Ball, who was one of the first ones to read a tweet directed at his dental hygiene. To Ball’s credit, his reaction is both funny and remarkably on-brand to his lavish Big Baller Brand lifestyle.
NEW #MeanTweets NBA Edition! @Shaq @LavarBigBaller @RealGrantHill33 @RealTuffJuice @Khris22M @KembaWalker @DSabonis11 @Klow7 @DwightHoward @SDinwiddie_25 @JaMorant @B_Ingram13 @TheTraeYoung @ZachLaVine @PSkills43 #Kimmel #GameNight pic.twitter.com/B20LckS4GI
— Jimmy Kimmel Live (@JimmyKimmelLive) July 7, 2021
Also included was Lonzo Ball’s Pelicans teammate Brandon Ingram, who is featured much later in the video and reads a tweet about how skinny he is, a criticism and joke made about him predating his time in the NBA.
Credit to all who take part in the segments though as everyone took the tweets in stride and laughed them off.
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