Kristine Leahy and Colin Cowherd react to LaVar Ball's May 17th interview | THE HERD

It was live television, my bosses this morning said: say what you want to say about it. One of the reasons I love Fox Sports and fs1 is because they don't tell me what to say. They don't tell me when to speak. My conclusion is that there are a lot. Of the things that happened last night I'm not going to sensationalize what happened, it was live on television, it got awkward and my co-host Kristine Leahy felt disrespected and immediately went after him and that's why I didn't intervene, I thought. Intervening would have weakened her position. There was a moment when I thought about it but she continued to respond to him and defend her position, which I think she had a right to be the way our sofas are placed.

My contacts are not always ideal, but I thought it was disrespectful. . I also thought about Lavar Ball, why did I bring him on the show? He had news value. I had predicted that his son was going to be a Laker and I came in yesterday and said, "Oh, shit, his son is going to be." I put it on a Laker twice before and like everyone always says, why do you put it on? I've been telling you for 25 years, folks, you drive the bus. I put it. We set a digital record. I put it back. We broke it. record yesterday he had news value you drive the bus I'm not pious in this business I think the end of the stations was when they think they are above the guests and above the topics we created a program that I try to make convincing all the days and you set digital records every time we have it and yesterday I thought it had real real news value unfortunately it went a little sideways or maybe fortunately because I think this morning what it did was reveal one side of the levar

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which is closer to the truth there is a dark side I thought he was a bully um and I think sometimes there were three things that happened yesterday after I wanted to stop the

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I was very very close if I had stopped the

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three things would not have happened he It wouldn't have been news because my new threshold is three billion dollars, I wouldn't have said that because I would have kicked him out, it wouldn't have been news promising that the Lakers would make the playoffs with Lonzo Ball who made news on Yahoo and he wouldn't have revealed neither of himself to Christine, which I thought gave Christine power and showed her the truth to get to the truth.

Sometimes you have to go down that path which is really uncomfortable. I'm not here to replay the interview, in fact, I didn't touch on it later in the show. I didn't want to play the sensational roles. I thought it added value to basket

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, but that's my conclusion: sometimes we bring in interesting people. I bring in comedians who, as long as they like sports. brings in Lavar Ball, I think he's a little bit like Don King, I think he's a little bit like the Kardashians, I think he's a little bit like Donald Trump, who got to the White House, he's in the news just by being himself yesterday, he revealed a lot things. and I created new news and that's what I took away this morning.

Honestly, I don't want to talk about him anymore. I don't want to continue letting him be a part of my life since he has the right to the last 24 hours. but I think the reason why so many networks choose to have him is because he says a lot of controversial things, you know, out loud and he has a great personality that I've been totally fine with, but I hope that yesterday he showed who he is and that we stopped put him on all these networks just to get controversial statements out of him because that's potentially what could happen and I think there's no place for that on television no matter what kind of ratings you get and at this point what I think I would love for Lonzo Ball I had everything I can.

I think of him in the situation. I want him to do well. I hope we stop letting his dad talk so much and maybe let Lonzo talk. I'd love to hear. more of him I hope he succeeds and I think what levar is doing I don't think yesterday is going to help at all and I think that's really unfortunate for his son what if levar came and looked you in the eyes and I replied tough questions I said yesterday and will say again today. My problem with what happened is just a complete lack of respect. He can disagree with everything I have to say and do so with passion.

You and I do it all the time. We do. with our coworkers but have some respect don't threaten me don't make personal jokes don't make fun of me and don't say you're not going to look me in the eyes if he wants to come look me in the eyes Be careful and be respectful, he still You may disagree with me. I'm fine with that, but I won't tolerate what he did yesterday.