LaVar Ball on Lonzo's debut: 'His worst game ever'

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- It took Lonzo Ball 20 seconds to get a near-capacity crowd off its feet in his first summer league game.

Just like LaVar taught him.

Ball's highly anticipated Los Angeles Lakers debut on Friday night started with a flourish on a perfectly timed lob pass to Brandon Ingram. But that was one of the few bright spots for a player Magic Johnson has dubbed as the new face of the Lakers in a 96-93 overtime loss to the Los Angeles Clippers.

The No. 2 overall pick scored just five points and missed 13 of his 15 shots, to the disappointment of a near-capacity crowd that came out to see him. Leave it to his father to sum up the night with some of his trademark straight talk.

"He don't be discouraged because that's the worst he can do," LaVar Ball said. "He can't go but up. And he still kept them in the game playing his worst game ever. That's what I like about it."

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