Lakers reportedly ask LaVar Ball to slow his roll

The Los Angeles Lakers seem to be more and more displeased with LaVar Ball.

The Lakers enforced a “LaVar Ball rule” not too long ago that kept Ball from doing on-court post game interviews. That was in response to his interview he did after the Lakers opening night loss to the Clippers.

Now, according to ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne the Lakers have reportedly met with Ball, and asked him to tone it down in regards to his criticism of head coach Luke Walton. Included in the meeting were Magic Johnson and GM Rob Pelinka. This meeting sounds specifically centered around one topic. The Lakers just don’t want Ball talking about their head coach plain and simple.

If you may recall Ball was displeased with Walton for not making the “Big Baller move”, when he called a timeout towards the end of regulation against the Warriors. LaVar also said that Julius Randle should have passed the ball ahead to his son Lonzo Ball for a chance at a game-winning bucket.

If you ask LaVar about the meeting he’ll tell you the meeting isn’t all that big of a deal. Ball said that everyone was going to make this meeting an ego thing when in fact it was about “coming together and finding a solution to this problem”.

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The “problem” presumably meaning the Lakers losing games. I don’t know if it’s that big of a problem — the Lakers are 10-16 and are competing at a high level just about every night. The most interesting part about Ball’s comments was that according to him what’s best for Lonzo is what’s best for the organization. He is partially right because Lonzo is the future of this franchise, and he’s going to be a big selling point in any free agent recruitment the Lakers do this summer.

In the grand scheme of things LaVar hasn’t said as much as he did when his son was at UCLA, but nevertheless I’m sure the Lakers could do without some of his antics.