LaVar Ball spoke to CNN's Chris Cuomo after President Donald Trump offered a pair of critical statements about LiAngelo Ball following LiAngelo's arrest in China on shoplifting charges.
Ball questioned Trump's role in the situation and declined to offer a thank you to the president, telling Cuomo he "[doesn't] have to go around saying thank you to everybody," per CNN:
Ball said a trip for LiAngelo on Air Force One would've changed his attitude toward Trump, according to ESPN's Darren Rovell:
Ball minimized the gravity of LiAngelo's crime and called it a "bad decision at a bad time.