Lonzo Ball Celebrated A Bounce-Back Game By Dropping A ‘Dragon Ball’-Inspired Song

Lonzo Ball didn’t have the greatest start to his NBA career, so he waited a day to drop a new track celebrating his debut with the Los Angeles Lakers.

Ball dropped the cartoon-inspired rap after the Lakers 132-130 win over the Phoenix Suns on Saturday. Ball nearly had a triple-double in the game, a much better performance than he had against Patrick Beverley and the Houston Rockets in his NBA debut.

To celebrate, Ball tweeted out the new track “Dragon Ball” early Saturday, complete with a video of his highlights at UCLA.
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The song itself is what’s become pretty standard fare for Ball songs.

“Triple Bs, I’m the man. Leveled up, I’m Super Saiyan,” Ball raps.

If you’re completely lost here, Super Saiyan is a level the Saiyan race can go in the Japanese anime Dragon Ball. It’s basically like Hulkamania except your hair becomes gold, to explain an analogy with another pop culture analogy.

What’s pretty interesting here is that it’s clear this release was to celebrate his first game, but that they pushed it until he actually had a good showing in the NBA. New music now comes out on Fridays, of course, and would have gotten a nice push given the release date if Beverley didn’t generally make his life hell in Los Angeles on Thursday night.

Also interesting was around the same time, De’Aaron Fox tweeted something about being #TeamVegeta (the rival of Goku in the show) after a video went semi-viral of him yelling “Kameha” during a three-pointer. He said that video was edited and insisted this was a simple coincidence that he was tweeting about Dragon Ball as well the day Lonzo dropped the track. That might be true, but in the NBA the way this offseason went it’s hard not to see it as a petty shot at his rival.