1. Lavar calling Lonzo his best son while introducing him when Melo was sitting right next to him was hilarious 2. For being Lavar's sons, Melo and Lonzo sure have a lack if charisma
They've literally never had to talk. He never shuts the fuck up and I am sure he spoke for them their entire lives.
I'm not sticking up for any of the Balls. You look at them and listen to them talk and they have been brainwashed so much by their father they believe to a delusional degree how good they are. Gi Angelo said he was "shocked" when he didn't make the Mcdonalds AA game even though he is a 3* who wasn't even ranked in the top 300. So he might not look like butthead but he sounds like him. Lamelo jacks up 50 shots a game, has 20 turnovers, yet scores 30 and thinks he's the baddest dude on the planet. The perception versus reality is flat out embarrassing.
I cannot tell a lie. I was. It's been awhile. I needed to get a Ball vent out. You nailed it. Well done. Corky Bucek
Shit, I was so antsy for a Ball family take I didn't even respond to the post I quoted. I just went on a JBF Ball rant..
Lonzo is probably a good kid, just unfortunate enough to have that father, but I've never rooted so hard for someone to fail in my life. I hope he's playing baseball with Tebow in a year.
I'm officially changing my call, I think BBB is going to be huge. Lonzo post game when asked about wearing the Kobe's and saying "you can wear whatever you want at BBB" I think that's going to resonate. It may be nothing, but that was kinda the first time I sat up and went "whoa."
Yeah, if you can wear what you want at BBB, that diminishes the value of your signature shoe. Who wants to wear the Lonzo shoe when it's not even good enough for him to wear every game?
You realize this isn't like a real brand with real athletes right? It's a 'my dad started this company to make money off me and I want to wear nikes' thing. There's nothing significant here
Imagine what other line of work where this would actually be a good decision. Musicians - I can play whatever I want on tour, I think I'll play some Kenny G instead of the metal music my fans are accustomed to. Teacher - I know I'm here to teach history, but I can teach whatever I want, so I'm going to teach these kids about accounting today TV station - I know we are ESPN, but we can televise whatever we want, so fuck it, we're going to air a 24-hour marathon of comedians telling dead baby jokes Lowes manager - I can sell whatever I want here at Lowes, but fuck selling tools and other household maintenance supplies, I'm selling ballerina gear today
Or like an astronaut saying I don't wanna go to the moon today I'll take my spaceship to the grocery store instead Am I doing this right
Maybe a better comparison would be Dell salesmen using a Macbook on sales calls or Tiger Woods whipping out a Taylormade driver back in his Nike days.
It's also telling all potential customers that the shoe isn't good enough to play basketball in. If that was planned then that was particularly smart.
Well yea, it's not a shoe made for the goddamn summer league, it's a primetime, NBA finals type shoe Everything coming up BBB