Black Mamba Blasphemy.
Lonzo Ball gave Angel Reese his NBA Mount Rushmore throughout a latest look on her “Unapologetically Angel” podcast, and KB24 didn’t make the lower.
“If you had to pick a top four — no order,” Reese probed the 27-year-old Bulls guard.
“Lebron, Jordan,” Ball started. “I’m going Shaq, [too], because he’s the most dominant ever.”
“And then fourth, I’m going — we just had this debate — I would go Magic, but I’m … it’s looking like Curry might have to find his way in there, honestly.”
“Why Curry?” Reese requested. “Not Kobe?”
Ball struggled to seek out the phrases: “Just because of … he’s doing it in a way that … I love Kobe but he was never the best player to me … just because he got the most misses ever, you know what I’m saying? I don’t know.”
It’s the second most heinous factor to come back out of a Balls’ mouth this month, by no means thoughts the truth that LeBron really outranks Kobe on the most-misses-ever record — 14,628 to 14,481.
“But back to Curry,” Ball stated to Reese. “His resume and the way he changed the game, he’s the best shooter ever. [He] carried USA like, [there] ain’t nothing that he ain’t did. And he got the rings to back it up, too.”
In Ball’s protection, there are solely fallacious solutions to the query of who the best basketball gamers of all time are.
Each GOAT-assesser goes to have his or her detractors, and Ball’s got here out in full pressure within the remark part of a clip the “Unapologetically Angel” podcast shared by way of Instagram.
“Perfect example of Telling me your age without telling me your age!” wrote one person.
“Bro wanna be hated by half of nba fans,” opined one other.
“Mad Lakers traded him so he talkin’ bad ‘bout Kobe,” chimed a 3rd.
Ball, the second general decide by Los Angeles in 2017, performed two seasons with the franchise earlier than he was despatched to New Orleans in a three-team deal in July 2019.
He performed the very best season of his profession in his second with the Pelicans, 2020-21, averaging 14.6 factors per sport.
The purpose guard was shipped to Chicago on the finish of that season, the place he struggled to remain on the courtroom.
Ball didn’t play in both 2022-23 or 2023-24 due to a meniscus harm, and due to wrist accidents he’s appeared in simply 4 video games to this point by way of the 2024-25 season.
