Remember when LaVar Ball said he could beat Michael Jordan one-on-one? And remember when the world then gleefully discovered that Ball had averaged 2.2 points per game at Washington State in his lone Division I college season?
Well the story gets better.
A Twitter user named Brian Beesley dug up an absolutely incredible passage about Ball in the Lewiston Tribune, in which Ball’s coach at Washington State, Kelvin Sampson, delivers what can only be read as a vicious zinger:
“We could lock LaVar in a barn for two hours and I don’t think he’d score 20 points. His role is not to score points.”
Just for fun, I searched the @LewistonTribune archives for stories about LaVar Ball. An except from a @jeffspevak1 column from 1/27/88: pic.twitter.com/dw9aOC5sj3
— ɮʟօɢ ʍʏ ʀǟɮɮɨȶ (@BlogMyRabbit) June 23, 2017
Though you could maybe argue that a player locked in a barn would naturally have hard time scoring any baskets, we’re pretty sure Sampson meant this as an insult. Sure there’s an implication that Ball was going to help out the Cougars in other categories, saying a basketball player can’t score at all is usually saying he’s not very good.
LaVar’s offensive ineptitude is pretty well represented in his college stats. He shot 40.4 percent from the field and 45 percent from the free-throw line, and he struggled to find minutes on a team that wound up 13-16.
Clearly, LaVar Ball is better at coaching up his sons than coaching up himself. If you locked No. 2 overall pick Lonzo Ball in a barn (with a basketball hoop) for two hours, he’d probably score 20 points.
