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Is LeBron James trolling Lonzo Ball with this ridiculous shooting form?

Published Mar. 30, 2017 8:17 p.m. ET

Andrew Lynch

The Ball family got LeBron James' attention earlier this month when LaVar compared his son, UCLA standout Lonzo, to LeBron's own offspring:

“The monsters in the NBA, their dads wasn’t that good,” Ball said. “They were OK, they was players, but the fact that the old [Dell] Curry wasn’t no All-Star, he wasn’t cold. He could shoot the ball, though. Kobe Bryant, his dad wasn’t all that, that’s why he’s such a monster.

“You got LeBron, it’s going to be hard for his kids because they are going to look at them like, ‘You got to be just like your dad.’ And after a while, that pressure starts sitting on you like, ‘Why do I got to be just like him? What can’t I just be me?’ And then they are going to be like, ‘Aw, you’re soft, you’re not that good.’ Because the expectation is very, very high.”

As for that peculiar stroke? Lonzo recently joined Chris Broussard on the In The Zone podcast to explain why he's not concerned about his form, as well as how many rings he expects to win in the NBA and much, much more.