Lakers Rumors: Why they’re not ready to move Lonzo Ball

If Lonzo Ball can’t be independent now, he won’t be anytime soon

Forget the noise that his father makes, let’s focus on Lonzo’s personality for this point. Sure, he’s one of the more laid back players in the NBA, there’s nothing wrong with being that way when it comes to your personality.

However, when it becomes a habit that turns into an insanely passive presence, that’s the real issue here.

It’s not that Ball hasn’t been that vocal, ice in his veins type leader that we might’ve hoped he’d be already — but the fact that he’s neutral or non-nonchalant on things he really can’t afford to be.

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Things like the status of the locker room under Luke Walton, if he’s even comfortable under Walton, and now the status of his career in Los Angeles on the basis of the Lakers signing his siblings.

If he doesn’t speak up now, that should tell you everything you need to know and alert you to any red flags that you might’ve thought would show up, but weren’t sold on being real yet. He is stuck a trance, and nobody wants to admit it because it makes them uncomfortable.

Anything LaVar Ball says when it comes to his boys goes. Again, there’s nothing wrong with being a strong willed father figure — that’s great and more power to you if you’re like that — but dictating your kids’ decisions when they’re old enough to be independent in that area is going way too far.

The difference would look something like this. If LaVar Ball were saying what he said, even about not coming back to the Lakers given certain circumstances, he could’ve said that it’s what his opinion is and what he’s letting Lonzo know.

Instead, we got the opposite in that he’s basically declaring what his kids will do without them actually saying anything to their own end. He did it with LaMelo by pulling him out of Chino Hills and opting not to even go to UCLA at all and also with LiAngelo, who stepped down from UCLA after being indefinitely suspended for committing a crime in China.

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What makes you think he’d hesitate, even for a moment, to pull the same stunt with Lonzo?