LaVar Ball’s defenders hail him as a visionary who tries to stick up for his son and break up a major sneaker oligarchy. The counterpoint to his alleged brilliance appears often when he opens his mouth, his ignorance never on display more obviously than when talking about Kyrie Irving.

On Wednesday, Ball went on FS1’s “Undisputed” to yell for a while, zeroing in on the Cavs star point guard as his target of the moment. Irving had lightly criticized Lonzo Ball’s father, saying on Uninterrupted’s “Road Trippin'” podcast that LaVar needs “to let go.”

LaVar’s response generously can be attributed to ignorance, and less generously can be boiled down to: You don’t get it, Kyrie, because your mom is dead.

“Maybe he don’t have the relationship that me and ‘Zo got. And I don’t think he did. First of all, your mom wasn’t there,” Ball said of Irving, whose mother died of Sepsis Syndrome when he was 4, leaving his father to raise him alone. “So something’s got to change right there. It’s not the same. Lonzo can come home and see his mom and dad all the time. We’ve been together. Most people, with this talent, usually has a single parent. Not two of them together.”

Ball, as always speaking like the smartest man in the room, did not hesitate to further clarify he has no idea about the NBA star he was ranting about.

“How you gonna tell me how my son should be when you don’t have a kid?” Ball rhetorically asked, clearly unaware Irving has a daughter nearing a second birthday.

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The feud began when Irving urged Ball to cut the cord.

“I’m sorry, LaVar, you’re not going to be in every hotel room that Lonzo is going to be in,” Kyrie said about Ball, who already had picked a fight with teammate LeBron James. “You’re not going to be everywhere and part of his life as he continues to grow up. You got to let go. He’s 19 years old. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want it to bypass him being a father, but he’s got to let Lonzo be Lonzo for the long haul.”