This Picture Of (Allegedly) LaVar Ball Riding Coach On A Flight Is An Awwwwwful Look For The Big Baller Brand

I’ll admit I have done my fair share of spinzoning in the name of the Big Baller Brand. He pulled his two youngest kids out of school? Nobody needs school if they are going to become pro basketball players! Sending those same two kids to the middle of Lithuania to play pro basketball? Well Kristaps Porzingis and Arvydas Sabonis are living, breathing proof that the Baltics is an underrated basketball factory! He created his own basketball league for kids that don’t want to give away the goods for the price of tuition, a meal card, and room & board? Fuck the NCAA! I was even ready to defend his latest take about how a young LaVar would have beaten the bag off of LeBron in a game of 1-on-1 because “LeBron is too weak”.

You think LeBron, even at the absolute zenith of his basketball and physical powers, would have been able to handle this adonis in the paint?

But this picture that was anonymously sent to me is tough to defend. LaVar Ball’s entire empire is built upon being a Big Baller. If you have beef with anything he does, you are just a small baller that doesn’t understand how the world works. He spoke his son onto the Lakers,

However Big Ballers don’t sit in the middle/back of the plane with the rest of us shleps. They sit in first class with their fancy warm towels and free champagne and puppies that they can play with during the flight. Okay I don’t know if they really have all of that stuff in first class because I’ve never sat there. But I imagine that’s what it’s like. At least give me Business Class, Big Var! And there is a case to be made that no Big Ballers fly commercial unless they absolutely have to. I’m pretty sure Portnoy would rather be caught dead than flying anything other than private to Nantucket. You can’t stand in line with the other 100 people itching to get on the plane first once they call Zone 3 because of the limited overhead bin space. That’s small baller shit. Big Ballers check all of their bags straight cash. They probably even pay for their carry ons because free carry on bags is small baller stuff. You can’t charge people $500 for shoes in the name of being a Big Baller and then fly coach.

But since it’s Lavar, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he was mixing it up with the poors in the back of the plane, signing autographs, kissing babies, and moving merch before going back to his seat in first class and eating only the finest caviar. And when they ask LaVar if he is flying for business or pleasure, he answers “business”. You know why? Because that’s what Big Ballers do. Big Business. Always.

And THAT’S how you spinzone a Big Baller (allegedly) riding coach on an airplane.

h/t John