I’ve always had a big problem with parents who are just too involved in their kids decision making and to an extent mooching off of their fame. It’s one thing to be a parent who pushes your kids to be the best they can be. It’s another when the parent is using their children for personal gain. I think that LaVar Ball is falling into the category of personal gain and it’s starting to aggravate me. You want an example of a parent you rarely hear about who did a phenomenal job with star athletes? Richard Williams. He is Serena and Venus Williams father. Richard trained his two daughters, turned them into dynamite players, but you never heard him hemming an hawing with the media on a constant basis talking trash about them and making all kind of demands as well as absurd claims. He let his daughters play do the talking.
This whole LaMelo and Lonzo Ball thing is getting way too out of hand. Lonzo Ball seems legit. He’s considered the number 2 college player in the country. But now his dad is demanding he play for the Lakers? Apparently his comments were clarified earlier today. “All I said was that my boy is going to play for the Lakers, and I’m going to speak it into existence. I want him to be a Laker, but I wasn’t saying he’s only going to play for the Lakers. I’m not trying to say he won’t play for a different team.”
Whatever LaVar, the damage was already done when you said your other son LaMelo should be in the NBA and that he’d be as good as Steph Curry. LaMelo scored 92 in a high school game earlier this month, but guess what? Today he shot 8-33 in a game that actually mattered. Plus, he’s in high school! Let’s just temper those expectations OK pop?
I just think LaVar is going about this all wrong. If you’re a parent of these two kids you want to continue pushing them, keep their heads on straight and if you’re talking to the media you’re saying things like “They still have a lot of work to do. They don’t understand the mental aspects of all of this. They’re talented young men but still have a lot to learn. I want to make sure they take the right path.”
You don’t hype your sons as being better than the NBA already. Anyone else agree with me? Tone it down LaVar.
Follow Us
