LaVar Ball reportedly mad after coach 'threw my friendship out the window'
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: LaVar Ball is mad at his son’s coach.
But there’s a new twist to the story because it doesn’t involve Luke Walton or a high school coach.
The target of the most famous basketball parent’s ire?
That would be Virginijus Seskus, the head coach of Vytautas, the team which employs LaMelo and LiAngelo Ball.
Seskus is also the same coach who allowed LaVar Ball to serve as an assistant coach for one game.
So what is the big sin that Seskuks committed?
He had the audacity not to start the Ball brothers in Sunday’s blowout loss to Zalgiris, which dropped Vutautas’ record to 4-18.
LaMelo Ball had 19 points off the bench, while LiAngelo Ball went for 25. But according to their father, that’s not good enough.
In an emotionally charged interview with Lithuanian basketball writer Dontas Urbonas, Ball took his boys’ coach to task.
LaVar Ball was mad that Melo and Gelo didn't start the game vs Zalgiris yesterday despite scoring 19 and 25 points respectively. LaVar told that Vytautas coach Seskus threw their friendship through the window by not starting them. LKL Champion Zalgiris beat Vytautas 118:96 pic.twitter.com/CrJMEEtCNb
— Donatas Urbonas (@Urbodo) February 5, 2018
“We could win this game easily, but the coach doesn’t have confidence to let my boys do what they do,” Ball said. “I told him the recipie how to win. If you don’t want to take that, it tells me you don’t want to win.”
Then, Ball talked about the “L” word.
“I’m a guy about loyalty,” he said. “If my sons come to practice every day, we’re friendly, we have nice friendship, they work hard. But you put guys who didn’t practice in the game before my boys? I don’t care about the game no more. I’m thinking about loyalty right now. He showed me how much our friendship is worth.”
You can almost hear Walton chuckling in the background.
“I’m really mad at a coach,” Ball said as his rant continues. “I thought our friendship was better than that. I’ll say hi to him, but I”m not going to be his buddy anymore because he threw my friendship through the window. I’m not talking to him. I ain’t ready for any explanations no more.”
Given how Ball has torched Walton and every other coach his sons have had, wouldn’t you love to hear their reaction to this?
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