There’s A Massive Line Of Lakers Fans To Meet LaVar Ball At The First Preseason Game

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LaVar Ball drew a crowd every Big Baller stop this summer, and that’s not expected to change anytime soon. The father of Los Angeles Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball continued to attract attention as his son’s team played in its first preseason game against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

While the Association’s first official preseason game tipped earlier and had a special presentation for Draymond Green, the hype train that is the Big Baller Brand’s patriarch was all that mattered in Los Angeles on Saturday.

LaVar was in the house to watch his son Lonzo take on the Wolves just like he had been all summer, when the Balls helped sell out NBA Summer League in Las Vegas. But this scene at the Staples Center on Saturday was something else entirely. Check out how many people crowded around to see LaVar in person.
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It seems like everyone wants a piece of LaVar these days. Whether it’s because of his reality show, the growing shoe company he’s constructing on his own or just that everyone is hoping he’ll say something controversial while in their presence, there’s certainly reason to want to be near the Big Baller.

The hype at this point is almost too big to maintain, really. But Ball has a weird knack for speaking things — like his son’s drafting by the Lakers — into reality. Maybe he can somehow make his playoff prediction come true this season, too.

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