Ball said his hospital stay coincided with LiAngelo Ball's song "Tweaker" going viral in January: "Funny how life works sometimes." "I had an infection on my foot that started spreading through my blood due to not paying attention to my diabetes,

Lavar Ball was getting a lot of attention in NBA circles. He was saying some outlandish things about his son Lonzo Ball right before he was going to be a top pick in the NBA Draft. Some of the things were more than a father being confident in the abilities of his son and trying to talk him up.

It was last month that LaVar Ball revealed that due to medical complications, he had a portion of his foot amputated, and in a new SLAM cover story, the Ball patriarch is ready to open up about the health scare.