Unsurprisingly, LaVar Ball is more caught up on UCLA’s elimination from the NCAA tournament than son Lonzo, whose injury-riddled performance against Kentucky sent his team home earlier than he — and Dad — had hoped.

Two weeks after the Bruins’ 86-75 loss to the Wildcats in the Sweet 16 on March 25, it was LaVar, in typical brazen fashion, making excuses for his son and directing blame elsewhere.

“Realistically you can’t win no championship with three white guys because the foot speed is too slow,” LaVar Ball told the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin on Thursday. “I told Lonzo, ‘One of these games you might need to go for 30 or 40 points.’ It turned out that was the one game. Then, once they get to the [Sweet 16], they’re right there.”

Lonzo Ball ended his UCLA career with a slow night offensively, adding four turnovers to 10 points and eight assists in the loss. The “white guys” LaVar likely is referring to — starters T.J. Leaf, Bryce Alford and Thomas Welsh — combined for 39 points.

In LaVar’s world, there’s a reason for that. Lonzo, who appeared to be limping toward the end of the game, suffered a hamstring injury, said his father. But, like the warrior he is — already better than Steph Curry and expected to win more NBA championships than Michael Jordan, in LaVar’s words — he battled through the pain.

Leave the complaining to Dad.

“People thought he was giving up, but he popped his hamstring,” LaVar Ball said. “He said ‘I was trying to run, but my hamstring was pulled.’ But he’s never going to make excuses.

“You’ve got to kill him to get him off the court. If you get in a bar fight and your eyeball gets knocked out, you can’t go outside and say my eye’s hurt. You got to go in there and fight with your eye hanging out. You never leave your brothers hanging on the court.”

Lonzo Ball, 19, is projected to go No. 1 or 2 in June’s NBA Draft.