I'll admit, it kind of bugs me that any of us really know who LaVarr Ball is. A loud mouthed father of some pretty talented young hoopers, that's the summary but he's stealing headlines left and right lately.
Like the one time the other week when he told the USA Today that he would have whooped Michael Jordan one-on-one back in the day.
Here's that quote...
“Back in my heyday, I would kill Michael Jordan one-on-one,” said Ball, the 49-year-old basketball dad who is 6-6 and 270 pounds and has a mouth to match his size. The elder Ball has spent his time touting his son as the next big thing in outrageous fashion (see: Curry comments) and trading verbal jabs with TNT analyst and ex-NBA star Charles Barkley."
“I would just back (Jordan) in and lift him off the ground and call a foul every time he fouls me when I do a jump hook to the right or the left,” Ball said. “He cannot stop me one-on-one. He better make every shot ’cause he can’t go around me. He’s not fast enough. And he can only make so many shots outside before I make every bucket under the rim.”
Well, because technology is awesome, Sports Illustrated found a way (if only in theory) to put that to the test...