A full 90 minutes before the draft, a young fan crowded as close as possible to the side of the stage, where players were posing for their group pre-draft photo.
He held a sign that had nothing to do with any of them.
“LaVar Can’t Guard Me” the sign said.
But while LaVar Ball’s outspokenness has drawn that sort of response this spring, his son’s former teammate at UCLA, T.J. Leaf, said it’s really not a big deal.
“Lonzo’s a little bit more shy and reserved,” Leaf said. “Lonzo’s cool with it. We’re all cool with LaVar at UCLA. He just likes to go in the media and say things. Everybody laughs about it. That’s what LaVar does it for – getting people laughs. He does that. So Lonzo is fine with it and laughs about it.”
