Vince Staples came of age in the Los Angeles, California area. As a product of North Long Beach, Staples chose the Los Angeles Clippers as his preferred NBA team over the Los Angeles Lakers.
The 30-year-old recording artist’s Clippers fandom may explain his recent comments about Los Angeles Lakers player LeBron James. Vince Staples appeared on Podcast P with Paul George to discuss the NBA and more.
“He ain’t getting no statue [in Los Angeles],” Staples stated about LeBron James while speaking with LA Clippers forward Paul George and his Podcast P co-hosts.
The Ramona Park Broke My Heart album creator did acknowledge LeBron’s impact on other professional basketball franchises. Staples said, “[James] gotta get a statue in Cleveland and like the NBA Headquarters, Miami.”
LeBron James helped bring the 2020 NBA championship to Los Angeles. The 20-time All-Star also won two rings with the Miami Heat (2012, 2013) and another ring with the Cleveland Cavaliers (2016).
“I mean I rock with Bron it’s just that Laker fans are haters so they’re never going to like LeBron. It’s never going to happen,” Vince Staples reiterated about not seeing an LA statue in King James’s future.
Additionally, the star of an upcoming self-titled Netflix show explained that he grew up surrounded by Lakers fanatics which led to him supporting the Clippers. Staples said, “I grew up in a Lakers household and my family’s loud, so it just made me hate the team.”