Disable Rigidbody After object Pickup

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1

I am fairly new to Unity, and I am making a 2 player dodgeball game. I want the players to be able to pick up the balls that are objects with rigidbodies in the scene. I already have written the C# so that once the player is within a certain distance of the object and a key is pressed, the ball becomes a child of the player, so I need to remove the rigidbody from the ball and reposition the ball relative to the player so that the ball moves with the player. This is my code, where distBallL refers to the distance between the player and the ball (not the issue) and LPickup refers to a ball gameobject in the scene:

if ( distBallL < 2 && Input.GetKeyDown (KeyCode.RightControl)) {

			LPickup.transform.parent = transform;
			LPickup.GetComponent<Rigidbody>() != enabled;
		}

This error is thrown:
error CS0201: Only assignment, call, increment, decrement, and new object expressions can be used as a statement

Any help is appreciated!

2

For anyone else seeing this, I have identified another post which asks the same question, but is three years old. I used the following statement that the other post claims to work, but get an error which I have included below the code.

GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Ball").GetComponent<Rigidbody>().enabled = false;

error CS0201: Only assignment, call, increment, decrement, and new object expressions can be used as a statement.

and, if I phrase it a different way,

error CS1061: Type UnityEngine.Rigidbody' does not contain a definition for enabled’ and no extension method enabled' of type UnityEngine.Rigidbody’ could be found.

Maybe GetComponent().enabled is deprecated?

Any help is greatly appreciated.