Charles Barkley claps at Lavar Ball

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His kids are from the suburbs, they not about that life. This is a dilemma many black suburban kids out there face. Dad is from the hood, flagrant as fukk and probably strapped. Made it out the hood to raise his family there. Kids wind up being non confrontation due to suburban upbringing.

I get the feeling that Lavar is well connected in LA too. Dude is all over the place chatting up anyone who will give him their time and he's likely been like that for years.
Joe Jackson on roids :laff:
 

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Ya'll suggesting he gon kill one of his sons :dahell:
That nikka is crazy as fukk, from South Central, exploiting his kids for his own business and publicly has little regard or respect for his sons as human beings outside of their basketball talent

I wouldnt put it past him
 

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Liangelo shouldnt even be playing at UCLA, he barely a 3 star prospect. Dude wont play in the league. The younger one is putting up numbers with a gimmicky play style and gimmicky system. Jury still out on him. So saying shyt "all 3 of my sons gonna go to the lakers and change the league"..thats a unfounded statement and people are fair in criticizing him.

And if they all make it and change the league...then what? If you think what he is saying is silly and outrageous that is your right (I actually agree) however you are operating on the same factual basis that he is. Nothing has actually happened yet so no one can really say for certain how accurate he actually is. People have a tendency to lose their minds whenever a person doesn't fall in line with the beaten path (while complaining about lack of personality and no one being willing to rock the boat). Most criticism in today's climate does not come from a "fair" place...it comes from a "I don't like that", "I am not used to that", "I am threatened" place.
 

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Joe Jackson on roids :laff:
exactly. I'd feel bad for Lonzo if that nikka wasnt about to sign a million dollar contract but down the line when he's on his own and has a fat bank account, they are going to have to have a man to man talk about this if this continues over the course of his career. I'm talking about when Lonzo is like 30 or something and established in all facets of his life. Many fathers dont really respect their kids as men until they're at least 25+ which is why Lavar feels so comfortable taking advantage of his boys right now.
 

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Man, illusions of grandeur.

Turned it off immediately when he said "If Charles Barkley thought like me, maybe he would've won a championship."

Dude doesn't know what it takes, and you're making a comment to a Hall of Famer directly. Calm down.
 

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it's not an ether. that's not how it works
it's equivalent to a coli poster saying "if chuck thought like me he'd have a ring" you can't be a nobody and shoot down a hall of famer :skip:
pretty much.

its more like if chuck thought like lavar hed be living through his son
 

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Worst case scenario, he's gonna have 3 sons that have the option to get a free education and a spot in the NBA so he clearly knows something.
Worst case? Thats the best case scenario (likely more of a pipe dream.)

Only the oldest one has certified NBA potential at this point, and there's already been articles about Lonzo's dad potentially hurting his draft stock by running his mouth.
 

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If I was one of his sons I would have bounced and did it on my own. They have enough status that someone will take them in until they reach the league.

His dad is only causing potential problems with all this bullshyt.
 
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