Ball: I’ve sold a good amount, to me. Like I said, there’s different amounts.
LaVar Ball has become a staple on Fox Sports 1 over the course of the last few months. While his appearances on ESPN have been limited, it feels like he’s on FS1’s Undisputed and The Herd with Colin Cowherd at least once a week now. But there’s a good chance he might see his number of FS1 appearances go way down after what happened live on the air on Wednesday afternoon.
While on The Herd, Ball was asked by Colin Cowherd and his co-host Kristine Leahy about the sales for his son Lonzo’s new Big Baller Brand sneakers. The BBB sales have been a hot topic over the last week, so the questions about them shouldn’t have come as a surprise to Ball. But for whatever reason, he wasn’t receptive—at all—to Leahy asking him how many pairs of BBB sneakers he has sold. It sounded like Ball had heard Leahy criticizing the BBB brand as a whole earlier and didn’t want to have anything to do with her. So he was completely dismissive of Leahy and refused to interact with her. He kept his back to her the whole time, told her, "Stay in your lane," and even suggested that Big Baller Brand is not for women.
Here’s a transcript of the conversation Cowherd, Leahy, and Ball had:
In addition to dismissing Leahy's question, Ball also seemed to dismiss the fact that BBB does have women's products on its site:
Ball: I never disrespect women. But I’ll tell you what. If you act like that, guess what? Something’s coming to you.
Later in the segment, Ball also took a shot at FS1 host Jason Whitlock, who was not in the studio for The Herd. He took aim at Whitlock for criticizing his son and the BBB brand:
Additionally, Ball went back-and-forth with Leahy again a short time later and seemed to make a threat towards her:
Ball has said and done some off-the-wall things on live TV this spring, but this was easily his most uncomfortable—and sexist—moment yet. A detail that didn't seem to be lost on Twitter:
It’d be surprising to see FS1 invite him back anytime soon.
