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LaVar Ball scoffs at LeBron James warning him not to talk about his kids

Published Mar. 22, 2017 6:35 p.m. ET

Andre Vergara

LaVar Ball isn't backing down from anything he said.

Ball doubled down on his comments about LeBron James' sons, which he made to FS1's Chris Broussard on the In The Zone podcast and which prompted James to warn him to "Keep my kids’ name out of your mouth."

“I don't apologize for nothing. I don’t care what LeBron said,” LaVar Ball said Wednesday on Sirius XM. “He talking about he warned me. He warned me for what? What is a warning going to do? Nothing. Now, if he get a little touchy because I gave an opinion on what I felt about no superstars’ kids really being superstars and the fact that they have to live up to their parents or to their father or whatever... I have yet to see one, and I’ve been around for 50 years...

"I didn't say 'Your kid is ugly; he can't play a lick.' I didn't say none of that. I said I don't see him being as good as LeBron on the fact that I know people are always going to compare their son. People come up to me this day ... They know how I used to play in the hood: rugged, fast, hard. They come up to me and say 'You know your boys are better than you, LaVar!' I say of course they are. Welcome to the new breed."

Ball's comments have drawn the wrath of Charles Barkley and now James, but the outspoken father of UCLA's Lonzo Ball says he won't hold his tongue.

“I don’t care, they not going to stop me from doing what I’m doing," Ball told FOX Sports Radio. "If they get a little touchy about it because I answer something a certain way, who cares. They’re not gonna do nothing to me and I’m not gonna do nothing to them, so it ain’t no big deal.”