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By now, you’ve probably heard about LaVar Ball, the father of Lonzo Ball, the talented and recently departed UCLA college-basketball star who is considered a certain NBA lottery pick this June. Over the last several months, Ball père has whirled himself into a one-man media tornado as a spokesperson for his point-guard son and the entire Ball brood. Let’s just go over the LaVarlights: Ball claimed 19-year-old Lonzo, who has precisely zero minutes of professional basketball experience, is already a superior player to reigning back-to-back NBA Most Valuable Player Steph Curry; he told USA Today that, in his own…