Pharrell Williams offered powerful advice for Lonzo Ball after Big Baller Brand's collapse
"The greatest things that are going to happen in your life are before you right now."
The past few months have not been easy for Lonzo Ball.
The Lakers missed the playoffs, he’s been dealing with injuries and, of course, he watched as Big Baller Brand collapsed amid an alleged $1.5 million embezzlement scheme involving longtime family friend and brand co-founder Alan Foster.
Aside from covering up his BBB tattoo and scrubbing Big Baller Brand from his social media, the Lakers guard had remained mostly quiet about what went on behind the scenes with Foster and LaVar Ball’s company. That changed during Saturday’s episode of The Shop on HBO with LeBron James.
Ball discussed what “really hurt” him about Big Baller Brand’s scandal. And when Lonzo described the ordeal as a “crumbling,” Pharrell Williams had to re-visit that topic.
He offered excellent advice to Lonzo, urging him to not look at the Big Baller Brand saga as a “crumbling” but rather see it as an opportunity to take control of his life and build a future.
Williams said:
“You know what I wanted to go back to when you said, ‘Man, it went all crumbling.’ I’m just telling you, the greatest things — the greatest things that are going to happen in your life are before you right now. And if that didn’t happen, you would’ve still stayed in that holding pattern.
“So, it’s not a crumble. If anything, this is Ground Zero. This is where you get to build it properly. Where you have a real, true foundation. Real, true friends. Real, true business partners. And the right frame of mind to build something that’s going to last.”
Williams, who welcomed triplets with his wife Helen Lasichanh in 2017, also told Lonzo that he views LaVar as the “GOAT dad” and that there’s nothing wrong with having a father who believes in you at all costs.
That relationship can still exist separate from his business life.