The on-going beef between LaVar Ball and Joel Embiid keeps compounding with no end in sight.
Embiid was fined $10,000 by the NBA on Saturday for “using inappropriate language on social media for uttering “f--- LaVar Ball” on Instagram live.
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The 76ers big man was asked about his beef with Lonzo’s father at the Variety Sports & Entertainment Summit on Thursday in Los Angeles, and he didn’t back down from his profanity laced choice of words.
Embiid has no regrets with cussing out the owner of the Big Baller Brand, despite being fined, which is really just a slap on the wrist to a player that’s already made $14 million in his career.
The fued all started back at the NBA draft when LaVar proclaimed the Lakers are a playoff team now that his son Lonzo is officially a Laker, that lead to Embiid quote tweeting Ben Simmons’ thoughts on the fervently father figure.
Ball responded to the tweets in a radio interview with 97.5 The Fanatic, and gave rebuttal on the Sixers youngsters for spending too much time on Twitter and not focusing enough on basketball.
"When you don’t win and don’t even make the playoffs and don’t even stay on the court long enough, that’s the best thing you can do is tweet," said Lavar.
"These guys ain’t played a game, always hurt, and at the bottom of the totem pole. So guess what? Get your asses off the goddamn Twitter, and get in the gym."
Embiid or Simmons didn’t reply directly to Ball’s comments. However, when asked about Ball response on the Instagram live Q&A session, Embiid told the world how he really felt. Ball retaliated with a shot at his Embiid’s lack of intelligence when TMZ caught up with Ball last week.
“The reason he said that…he got three words, because his vocabulary is limited…You gotta use cuss words when you don’t have no intellect.”
We just hope the war of words eventually makes its way from off the court to on, and ignites the 76ers and Lakers into one of the most exciting and competitive rivalries in the NBA one day. But for now, we can’t help but sit back and watch the hype build up, like his outrageous predictions in the NBA Summer League.
(H/T: CBS Sports)