Here’s Why You Can’t Stop Hearing About LaVar Ball And His Family

LaVar Sees Purple And Gold

Before the NBA draft goes down there is a ping-pong-style random selection of what the draft order should be. The Lakers had a 15.7 percent chance of getting the first through the third pick. Lonzo Ball was a projected top-two pick. After the Lakers got the second pick LaVar was positive his son was going to the Lakers. “I told him he was gonna go to the Lakers,” he exclaimed the night of the lottery.

Then came the night of the draft. In almost every interview prior to the draft, LaVar would say, “I’m going to speak it into existence,” that his son would go to the Lakers with the number two pick. When draft night came, the Lakers got their man in Lonzo and LaVar’s prediction came true.