Cleveland Cavaliers superstar LeBron James had issued a stern message to LaVar Ball, the outspoken father of UCLA phenom Lonzo Ball, without even holding back anything on Tuesday.

Just last week, LaVar Ball, who was calling out almost every player in the NBA and saying that his son is better than them, criticized James' 12-year-old son, LeBron James Jr., claiming that James Jr.'s basketball future would be held back completely because his father is an NBA superstar.

James was very much not pleased with Ball's comment. James then went on to ESPN and said, "Keep my kids' name out of your mouth and keep my family out of your mouth. This is dad to dad, and it's a problem now."

LeBron James Jr. is currently a star player on the North Coast Bluechips AAU team, and he is already attracting attention from some of the top college basketball programs like Duke and Kentucky. When asked about LeBron James' sons last week, LaVar Ball had this to say:

"You got LeBron as a father, so it's gonna be so hard for you as his kid, cause they gonna look at him like 'you gotta be as good as your dad,'" Ball said. "And after a while, that pressure's going to start sitting on these kids like, why do they gotta be like their dad, why can't they just be themselves."

According to For The Win, Ball then, later on, said that his sons are good and great, but also said that had he really excelled in football and made millions of millions of dollars out of it, he wouldn't have spent time that much with his kids, and they would not have excelled in their sport.

All of these words that came out of LaVar Ball clearly struck a nerve with LeBron. Ball has yet to respond to James' retaliation.

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