LaVar Ball has been an annoying sideshow to the sports world for most of the last two years. He's the most obnoxious sports dad at your kids' games only if that sports dad also had the confidence that only comes from screaming at Stephen A. Smith on national TV over and over again. And for a while, it seemed like LaVar had reached the height of his infamy.

Or at least that's what everyone thought. Then Ball's middle son LiAngelo, a freshman at UCLA, got arrested in China for shoplifting alongside some of his teammates and found himself in the middle of an international incident. Now this might have been bad for LiAngelo's college career, but it was great for LaVar, who busted out of sports news and expanded his reign of televised screaming to, well, the actual news—and a very real feud with the troll-in-chief Donald Trump, who appealed to China to release the players. It all led to a brilliant and baffling LaVar appearance on CNN.

Beyond just the insanity that is seeing LaVar talking geopolitical crises on CNN, it was wild to see a man who has made his reputation on being a professional heel going at an even bigger villain. The only thing I can compare this to is Jurassic Park. When we first meet the T-Rex, it's terrifying and scary and a villain, but it turns out the raptors are even scarier and even bigger villains. Then, eventually, the T-Rex, who again, has been a villainous presence, shows up and saves the day by turning itself on the raptors. I mean look at this sign-off.

In this metaphor LaVar is the T-Rex and Donald Trump is the raptors. We needed a troll to fight against the troll in charge, and LaVar answered the call.