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Lakers Larry Nance, Jr. roasts Ivica Zubac's paintball skills in hilarious Twitter exchange

Larry and Ivica are here for your summertime entertainment.

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Los Angeles Lakers Larry Nance, Jr., Ivica Zubac and David Nwaba took their rookie teammates Josh Hart, Thomas Bryant and Kyle Kuzma paintballing over the weekend to welcome them to the team.

Perhaps we should’ve expected this, but the event somehow turned into Nance roasting Zubac on Twitter, as is tradition.

Things started innocently (and typically) enough with the ever-confident Zubac proclaiming to Mark Medina of the Southern California News Group that he was “the best paintball player” of any of the Lakers following the team’s first summer league post-practice media availability.

His brag did not go unnoticed, and given that Nance has previously went around calling Zubac his son and generally seems to enjoy very few things (other than dunking on people) more than ribbing Zubac to reporters or on social media, we probably should have been ready for what came next: Nance quote-tweeting Medina and serving ups some trash talk for Zubac:

Nance wasn’t done there:

Zubac clapped back...

... But I think we know who won this round. Sorry, Ivica, but Larry is still the Lakers honorary “Supa Hot Fire”:

Please let these guys play together for 15 years and get their own reality show.

Harrison Faigen is co-host of the Locked on Lakers podcast (subscribe here), and you can follow him on Twitter at @hmfaigen.

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