New team, new agent, new freedom.

In an interview on Adrian Wojnarowski’s ESPN podcast, Lonzo Ball explained that there is no serious rift with his father, LaVar, but he is enjoying a little more freedom. Ball was traded from the Lakers to the Pelicans this offseason and switched agents to CAA.

“What makes it easier is I’m controlling everything now,” Ball said on the podcast that was released Friday. “You really can’t tell me what to do. It’s my life, my career. I’m making all the decisions now. I chose to go to CAA. I think me becoming my own man is going to make it easier, honestly.”

Lonzo had also severed ties with Alan Foster, who was a business partner of Lavar’s. Lonzo accused Foster of defrauding him of $1.5 million. The fallout from Foster’s alleged financial misdeeds has left LaVar’s Big Baller Brand in ruins and caused drama between him and Lonzo. Some of that has unfolded in recent episodes of their Facebook reality show, “Ball in the Family.”

In one scene, LaVar called Lonzo “damaged goods” after the Pelicans point guard suggested the Big Baller Brand’s reputation was in tatters and should consider a name change.

“That was the most popular scene, it was everywhere,” Ball joked on the podcast “That’s part of life. I’m growing up. He has his ways, I have mine. We just got into it. That’s what fathers and sons do as time goes on. At the end of the day, it’s always love at the end. I know he loves me, I love him. We’re just not always going to agree on everything. That’s all it was.”

And now the former No. 2 pick is looking to start a new chapter in his life. After two injury-marred seasons with the Lakers, he was traded to New Orleans as part of the package that sent Anthony Davis to Los Angeles.

Ball is one of the centerpieces of a young Pelicans team, alongside Zion Williamson and Brandon Ingram.

“I tell everybody take it one game at a time,” he said. “We’re in the West. There’s no off nights. When you think it’s an off night, it’s not. You can lose any night. I think we have the pieces to do it and go where we need to go. But my advice to them is take it step by step.”