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LaVar Ball beating Michael Jordan 1-on-1? Not a leg to stand on

Bombastic sports dad LaVar Ball picked the wrong target for some of his bluster: Don’t go after Michael Jordan, particularly on the subject of one-on-one basketball.

Ball, father of Los Angeles Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball, boasted he would have beaten Jordan - arguably the greatest player in NBA history - in Jordan’s prime.

A camper this week asked Jordan, who now owns the Charlotte Hornets, if Ball could beat him. Jordan let loose:

“I don’t think he could beat me if I was one-legged,” Jordan said during a question-and-answer session at one of his Flight School basketball camps in California.