Welcome to In the Zone. I'm Chris Broussard. And this week we have a special guest, Levar Ball.

It's great to have you here, man. I'm glad to be here, man. I appreciate it very much.

No, I'm really excited about having you hear your son, especially Lonzo, obviously, is a terrific player. So we'll get into all that.

When I first met you was just last week at the UCLA Washington game.

Yes.

And I came up and introduced myself to you and you were like, I know who you are.

Right.

I'm putting together a list.

So tell me about that list.

I got the list, man.

Don't worry about that.

You'll figure out when you're on it when I get to talking to you.

You said I'm on the list.

And here's the thing. When you say something negative, my ears stand up.

But I understand your job and I understand my job.

And I'm not like, oh, I don't like this guy.

I don't like that guy.

But if you know if anybody says anything negative, you're going to respond in a different way

where you just get touched.

But it's not about that you know and even

even shaking and talking to you it's it's sometimes people go into things with a

preconcerted notion already and when you hear certain people and you get to talk to

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