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LaVar Ball
- ... that LaVar Ball claimed that he "would kill Michael Jordan one-on-one" in his heyday? Source: [1]
- ALT1:... that all three of LaVar Ball's sons have committed to or currently play basketball for UCLA? Source: [2]
- ALT2:... that LaVar Ball would beat Michael Jordan in one-on-one basketball? Source: [3]
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Plered
- Comment: There are many interesting hooks possible for this article. Let me know if you have suggestions. Note that ALT2 is an April Fool's Day hook.
Created by TempleM (talk). Self-nominated at 22:57, 17 March 2017 (UTC).
Template:Ping As much as I would like to clear ALT2 for AFD, I do not believe I can at the moment as the article doesn't specifically make the claim of being better than Michael Jordan. I think it would need to be made clearer in the article to pass extra inspection, even if it is for April fools day. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 11:35, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
- Template:U - Tweaked the hook to something found in the article. TempleM (talk) 16:46, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
Date, length and hook OK. QPQ done, no close paraphrasing. Good to go. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 17:15, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
The C of E, TempleM, this article has been remarkably unstable, both before being semi-protected for a week on March 17 and between the protection coming off at 15:46 on March 24 and being reinstated at 19:20 that same day. Since the current protection ends late on March 31, I think we can expect the article to be quite unstable, which is a problem if this runs with ALT2 on April Fools' Day. Also, I have trouble with the "would be" claim; even running on that day, I would expect the twist to be that it was some other Michael Jordan, rather than Wikipedia's voice backing up Ball's ludicrous claim. Even "would have beat" (which is the actual claim in the article) wouldn't work in Wikipedia's voice. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:25, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
- This page should be deleted. This person is not significant in any way, he's the father of a college basketball player, he never played professional ball. Did this guy write his own page or was this a UCLA fan that wrote it? Confused as to why this hasn't been selected for deletion yet? 68.13.138.185 (talk) 23:50, 26 March 2017 (UTC)