While LaVar ball is busy building beefs around the NBA, he and LeBron James are reportedly paving the way for the league’s reigning King to join forces with Lonzo Ball on the Los Angeles Lakers.

“LaVar and LeBron talk all the time, and they talk about joining forces,” a source told Terez Owens. “I think everyone knows what’s going on is, LaVar is recruiting LeBron to come to the Lakers. LaVar thinks that will be the quickest path for Lonzo to get a ring, and LeBron will eventually retire, at which point Lonzo would be the alpha dog, and be the ultimate face of the Lakers.”

That’s a significant swing in sentiment between the Father of Balls and the Cleveland Cavaliers forward. This past March, LaVar started a media row with James when explaining that “The monsters in the NBA, their dads wasn’t that good.”

“You got LeBron, it’s going to be hard for his kids because they are going to look at them like, ‘You got to be just like your dad,'” Mr. Big Baller said, per ESPN’s Dave McMenamin. “And after a while, that pressure starts sitting on you like, ‘Why do I got to be just like him? What can’t I just be me?’ And then they are going to be like, ‘Aw, you’re soft, you’re not that good.’ Because the expectation is very, very high.”

When informed of LaVar’s take, LeBron responded forcefully, telling Ball via ESPN, “Keep my kids’ name out of your mouth. Keep my family out of your mouth. This is dad to dad. It’s a problem now.”

“You do not give Lonzo Ball the best player in the game and don’t think they going to win!,” LaVar told ClutchPoints’ Ryan Ward in August. “He is going to fall in love with Lonzo so much on the way that he play. They both understand the game. Best player in the game and you don’t think he coming? Stop it!”

Word of James’ potential arrival in L.A. first broke during the 2017 NBA Finals, when The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor wrote “Multiple league sources I’ve spoken to think the Lakers or Clippers are viable destinations for King James.”

James can opt out of his contract with the Cavs next July and become a free agent. The Lakers are currently slated to have enough cap space during the summer of 2018 to sign LeBron to a max contract, and could clear the necessary room to ink another superstar to a similar pact.

Should that come to pass, Lonzo and the Lakers would soon find themselves on the march into NBA title contention. All the more reason, then, for LaVar to get involved.