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LaVar Ball to NFL players: Stand for the anthem or 'get out' of the league

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LaVar Ball has some thoughts about the new rules implemented by the NFL to help curtail players kneeling during the national anthem, and his opinions are as controversial as you would expect.

Though Ball believes the league went too far in implementing a policy that requires players to stand for the anthem if on the field, he thinks NFL players should still respect the new rules.

"It's (the NFL's) league," Ball told TMZ Sports on Saturday. "If you don't want to do it (stand for the anthem), get out their league."

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Ball, the father of three athletes himself, said he created his own league, the Junior Basketball Association, to enforce rules as he see fit.

"I got some youngsters, man," Ball said. "They going to do the anthem. They not going to be kneeling and doing all that."

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