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LaVar Ball: People been saying I still can't beat Michael Jordan one-on-one, especially without my foot. Well, guess what? If I really wanted to, I can give him 70 and a**-whooping. Lonzo Ball: Man, I got to start getting on TikTok, bro. Big Baller on TikTok, man. LiAngelo Ball: Do they tell him to make these for free? Lonzo Ball: He’s definitely getting bread for this sh*t.

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LaVar Ball -- the father of basketball stars Lonzo, LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball -- had his foot amputated after suffering a serious medical issue, TMZ Sports has learned. We're told the Ball family patriarch underwent a recent procedure to have his right foot removed ... but despite it all, he is in great spirits and doing well.

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LaVar Ball chalks the injuries up to the fact his boys, LaMelo Ball and Lonzo Ball, are trained by NBA folks who don't know what they're doing instead of, well, him. "They say, oh, LaVar, you worked the boys out too hard -- that's why they hurt," he says. "No, the reason they hurt is because they got away from me. And they start doing these roody-poo workouts. Because if you keep running them hills, you're going to keep that power and that strength. But you start dealing with these rubber bands and doing this lightweight stuff, of course you're going to start breaking down."

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LaVar Ball got more on this. And room to plug, casually, his Big Baller Brand, which, by the "BBB" shirt he's wearing, is still a thing. "They've been trained hard enough? No, no, no," he says. "Because you condition your body for running and jumping. You've got to condition your legs. So that's why I always have my boys in them hills and running hard in them hills. That will make you run like a deer when you get on that court, so you won't be getting hurt. A lot of things have to do with them raggedy shoes that Melo be wearing. Them shoes are not made the right way for him. That's why he keeps tweaking his ankle every single time."

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Alan Foster -- who cofounded the Big Baller Brand -- is dragging the Balls to court once again ... this time he's suing LaVar Ball, Tina Ball, LaMelo Ball as well as PUMA, alleging they screwed him out of hundreds of millions of dollars. Foster's claims were spelled out in a new lawsuit filed in federal court in California earlier this week ... some four years after he had a falling out with the Ball family over the BBB business.

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NBA Central: LaVar Ball advises Bronny James to pursue a career in Australia rather than attend college "If you want to play basketball and you really that dude, why am I sitting in class trying to pass a chemistry test? I don’t wanna play no chemistry. I don't wanna practice no Spanish."… pic.twitter.com/sVbpnIIBz6

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Lavar Ball first called out MJ in 2017, saying “Back in my heyday, I would kill Michael Jordan one-on-one,” and he hasn’t backed down since. Ball was a guest on the Audacy Original Podcast “Stacey King’s Gimme the Hot Sauce” and once again proclaimed that he could take down the greatest basketball player of all time.

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“Here’s the thing: 1-on-1, my competitive skill to win is too strong, and he was too light in the tail to mess with me. 1-on-1, there’s nothing he could do. I’m too fast and too strong,” Ball said (59:23 in player above). “I bag him in, even if he tries to stop me, I lift him off his feet and I just give him a jump hook with the right or the left, or give him a nice little bank shot step through. Easy money. He’s 210 pounds. I’m 270.”

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“Mike can’t do nothing with me right now,” he said. “Mike is 50-something years old. I’m 55 and I drink milk all day and eat steaks. He’s smoking cigars and drinking cognac. How you gonna run through me?”

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LaVar Ball: “Lonzo is going to be fine. He’s only 25 years old. He’s going to get his stuff together and then he’ll be ready to play and do his thing again. People just got to stay off that and thinking ‘Oh, you’re going to come back tomorrow, or next week, or next month.’”

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LaVar Ball: “I mean he had some debris in the nerve. That’s going to cause you to do some other things. That’s why he couldn’t get nothing done. It don’t allow you to stretch like that. But all that’s done now. So now it’s about getting your strength back and then getting your endurance.”

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LaVar Ball: “Like I told him, do everything slow. Don’t be 70% and try to come out there, be 100%. So whenever you’re 100% come back and be ready to go. It ain’t about sitting out one game, 20 games. Worry about the money and stuff like that? Nah. Just make sure you’re healthy and good to go where you can play the same way.”

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So when you hear the rumors and internet speculation of LaMelo ultimately finding his way west and playing at home for the Lakers when you consider how things ended with Lonzo, would you want LaMelo in a Lakers uniform? 
LaVar Ball: Common sense would tell you, hell no. You did something to my boy Lonzo, and you think I’m going to come back with the others? I gotta be stone-cold crazy. So you’re saying you wouldn’t want LaMelo to be a Laker?
LaVar Ball: No. I wanted Melo to be a Laker before that ship done sailed. You get rid of ‘Zo and you think I’m going to come back? I’m not that type of foolish guy.

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Clutch Points: LaVar Ball EJECTED during LiAngelo Ball’s 52-point eruption in the Drew League 🔥 pic.twitter.com/BxHelwimCl

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