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LaVar Ball is known for making loud and bold claims. How true are those statements? Well not at all times. The businessman and father of Lonzo, LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball is not someone who shies away from making his thoughts on certain things known. No matter how controversial those can be. 

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The one thing that he has let everyone know loud and clear is his dislike of Steven Kerr. At every chance he gets, Ball is always ready to express his criticisms about the Golden State Warriors’ head coach. And he did just that, recently. 

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Father of LaMelo Ball talks good coaching

In a chat with djvlad, Ball claimed that Kerr was just standing around, doing nothing. He credited the success of the team to the talent of the top players rather than his management skills. 

He brought back his previous comparison of Steve as the ‘Milli-Vanilli’ of the NBA. The band is known to have won awards while not having an ounce of talent, resorting to lipsynching. He reinstated his thoughts that Kerr had a very superficial role in the team. 

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Ball also claimed that he could coach the team blind. Because, he says, “A good coach always lets his players do their thing with just belief in their talent. And then by the sound of the crowd, that means we are doing good. Every time it’s (Yayy), we must be winning. Good job, keep it up. That’s how easy it is. And now you see, he (Kerr) ain’t doing nothing man, come on!” 

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When talking about the talents of his sons, Lonzo and LaMelo, the father boasted that he was the one who taught his sons all of that. He added, “I taught them how to play faster than anybody. When my boys get on the same team, it will be the biggest thing in the NBA. They’ll play so fast, you can’t catch ‘em.”  

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Amid all these claims, you may be wondering why he has such strong feelings about Kerr. Well, the answer is a bit complicated and funny, to be honest. 

The “Kardashian of the NBA”

It all began in 2018 when Steve called the businessman the “Kardashian of the NBA”. This was in response to Ball telling ESPN that the Lakers no longer want to play for coach Luke Walton, a friend of Kerr and former top assistant with the Warriors.

He added that the father of the then Lakers rookie, Lonzo, has zero credibility. All his controversial statements were just attempts to grab media attention, just like the Kardashians. 

This did not bode well with Ball and thus began this feud.

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The head coach, for his part, has mostly refrained from answering any of LaVar’s taunts. But how long will this go on? 

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Ruth John is an NBA Primary Editor at EssentiallySports. With over two years of experience in content creation, Ruth began her journey at ES as a writer covering live game reports sprinkled with a few off-court pieces delving into the players’ everyday lives. In her role as an editor, she is focused on ensuring that every piece she puts out has something unique to offer to the reader. As much as she helps the writers, every day is a learning curve for her as well, with the chance to see things from different perspectives. Ruth owes her love for basketball to her cousins, who forced her to watch them as they hogged all the TV time. Now she watches it just for the love of it, albeit all alone by herself. Besides writing, she spends most of her time catching up with the latest Netflix series or listening to Joji’s entire discography with no skips.

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