Candid Coaches: Would LaVar Ball's presence keep you from recruiting his son?

Posted Aug 27, 2017
"I'm sure LaMelo is great and all that. We tell our players all the time you gotta be better than your problems. And I don't know, unless it's Magic Johnson or Larry Bird coming to play for me, I don't know I'd want to deal day to day with that circus he brings with him. I thought that dude was a clown from the get go. Right now he's a buffoon with what went on at Adidas." (CBS Sports)

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