Star Trek actor gets angry tweets meant for LaVar Ball

Actor LeVar Burton played Captain Geordi La Forge in Star Trek, and he has a somewhat similar name to outlandish basketball father LaVar Ball. It's just close enough for Burton to be on the wrong end of Twitter hate meant for Ball.

As Ball's feud with Donald Trump escalated into a bizarre interview with CNN, more tweets intended for Ball have ended up in Burton's mentions. Burton's Twitter handle is @levarburton while Ball's is @Lavarbigballer. It really would take a lot to confuse the two, but nonetheless, Twitter found a way.

He joked about the misguided Twitter vitriol on Tuesday.

But it's something that has gone on the past week. A fake Donald Trump account made the same mistake.

Other users have also tweeted at Burton instead of Ball.

Burton has been getting this treatment for months, but the political nature of this latest feud reignited the errant tweets. Back in March, he spoke to Bleacher Report about getting confused for LaVar Ball.

He said at the time before comparing Ball to Trump:

A week or so ago … I finally tweeted about it, I retweeted it with my comments. I was like, "What is going on here?" Then I looked into it and found out who LaVar Ball was, and then I just laughed. He's a piece of work. He is a one-person PR machine. I guess he's operating under the premise that any press is good press, but he's bucking for one of the most reviled persons in sports right now.

And now those worlds have collided.

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