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Call the bluff on Big Baller Brand

If you really want the selection of Lonzo Ball to work out in your favor and you’re Magic Johnson, there’s no exceptions of any kind to this point. How he’s handled LaVar Ball’s commentary from the sideline has been absurd, and it’s only resulted in a bad situation for the Lakers that they’re lucky hasn’t escalated to something worse yet.

It’s bad enough that Lonzo is extremely passive, and the times when his father says something outlandish aren’t any different. The Lakers don’t need, nor should they want, that kind of a leader in their locker room.

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This has locker room catastrophe written all over it if the front office in Los Angeles doesn’t get a grip on the situation. One of the only ways they’ll realistically be able to do that is if they stop playing with hypothetical options and seriously discuss trading Lonzo somewhere else if this continues.

The better option at the moment would be an off-season or next season deal that swaps Ball with Devin Booker of the Phoenix Suns, to which you can imagine how happy LaVar will be to hear that. What the bottom line here is all about has to do with the fact that the organization needs to show some brass and that they’ll not be bullied by the feelings of LaVar Ball, regardless of how strong he wants to come across.

There’s nothing wrong with having an opinion like LaVar Ball does, even if it is a heated or controversial one, but letting it go un-checked puts Magic Johnson as the sole person to blame for how things have already gotten and how worse they could be as soon as the end of the All-Star weekend.

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