With his dedication to saying absurd things with brash confidence at high volumes, LaVar Ball has become an inescapable part of the sports media landscape.
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LaVar Ball gets roasted with dead-on impression during 'Saturday Night Live'
Kenan Thompson played the patriarch of the Ball family got the SNL treatment on Thursday night as a guest on 'Weekend Update'
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He went on "First Take" and told Stephen A. Smith that he'd beat Michael Jordan at a game of one-on-one. He tried to get Nike to pay a billion dollars for the rights to his kids' shoe deals. After his son was drafted by the Lakers with the second overall pick, he immediately went on record saying Lonzo would take the franchise from the bottom of the Western Conference to the playoffs.
Ball is the type of character that is ripe for parody, and on Thursday night, "Saturday Night Live" finally got to take aim at the infamous father, with Kenan Thompson playing the role of Big Baller-in-Chief.
Thompson's performance was one of dedication and committment, taking Ball's already outlandish character and expanding him into space, with claims like,
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