OT: Lebron want to play with Bronny

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Looks like he will be playing for free
 
Not sure Bronny is a one-and-done player at this point. Maybe we will have a G League team by then. Or will Bronny skip college and play overseas.
 
Cugel said:
how good is the kid?
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Rivals.com has him as the number 34 prospect in the class of 2023 and ESPN has him as has him as no 43 in his recruiting class. Other sites have him somewhere in between. That gives you a good idea for now but as a junior in high school a lot of things can change between now and two years from now. Also there's some discussion that due to COVID his class isn't very well scouted. So his notoriety might be inflating his value or he could be far more scrutinized than his peers. A lot more will be known after his last high school season and his first college season because by all accounts he is going to play in college.
 
A lot of presumptions here- that Bronny will make it to the NBA, that his team will want LeBron, etc
 
The only reason I care about this is I am hoping we draft Bronny just as a giant FUCK YOU to Leflop. Then refuse to trade Bronny or sign his dad
 
Mediocre Man said:
The only reason I care about this is I am hoping we draft Bronny just as a giant FUCK YOU to Leflop. Then refuse to trade Bronny or sign his dad
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If we still have Dame I don't see us refusing to sign Lebron. Dame might even try to persuade us to draft Bronny if it means Lebron signs here.
 
hello cleveland
it will be the cavs
he can orchestrate it no problem
 
Bronny will be playing in the les Schwab invitational in Hillsboro in December. I think I’m gonna go for the spectacle, since it’ll be like 5 min from my house.
 
Mr. Robot said:
lebron hasnt been to college, so he should go to one with his son
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Never thought of this before....He wouldn't have eligibility right? I think jr smith is playing college golf but I don't think he could do college basketball
 
WesleyMatthews said:
Never thought of this before....He wouldn't have eligibility right? I think jr smith is playing college golf but I don't think he could do college basketball
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I definitely think he's given up his amateur status but I don't know how much longer that will be lawfully necessary to play in college. I imagine that even if college players start to be paid by schools as they're already allowed to be paid by sponsors, the NCAA will keep rules in place to keep people who have played in professional leagues from playing in college.
 
SlyPokerCat said:
With him saying that, makes me feel like someone will take bronny in the first if they get a year of minimum Lebron. Even at 40.
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very real possibility Bronny jumps up to the first round with the team thinking its a two for one pick.
 
We can use our 2nd round pick to draft him
 
SlyPokerCat said:
I don't think it is a presumption that an NBA team will want Lebron for a minimum salary. All 30 teams would sign him for that even at age 40.
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No one wanted Melo, AI, etc when they broke down.
 
This is kind of sick. Let the kid be his own player. Lebron should cut the helicopter parent bullshit. That kid is going to resent him sooner rather than later. He knows he'll never get judged on his own merits. I imagine Michael Jordan's kids felt the same. Better to be Magic Johnson's kid and be completely uninterested in your dad's profession
 
KSF-ERIC said:
No one wanted Melo, AI, etc when they broke down.
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Lebron is better than either of them. Melo and AI were also not wanted because of perceived attitiude problems and bad apple history. Lebron doesn't have either of those things. Think Michael Jordan playing at 40. Vince Carter played into his 40's.
 
KSF-ERIC said:
A lot of presumptions here- that Bronny will make it to the NBA, that his team will want LeBron, etc
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LoL……Don’t be silly. This is LeBron and his son we’re talking about. I’m sure the NBA and teams are chomping at the bit!
 
Rastapopoulos said:
This is kind of sick. Let the kid be his own player. Lebron should cut the helicopter parent bullshit. That kid is going to resent him sooner rather than later. He knows he'll never get judged on his own merits. I imagine Michael Jordan's kids felt the same. Better to be Magic Johnson's kid and be completely uninterested in your dad's profession
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pssh. With NIL, he already has a shit load of value because of his dad's name. He's not going to resent his dad because even if he can't play ball, his dad is going to help him along the way. He's signing random deals as what, a junior or whatever already?
 
By Rick Reilly
October 28, 2024 at 8:30 a.m. EDT
If your dad is Tom Hanks, you get to act in movies. If your dad was Robert F. Kennedy, you get to run for president. But sports is not like that. Sports is the last true meritocracy.

Nobody puts you in the Yankees’ lineup just because your last name is Mantle. You don’t get to quarterback in the NFL because you grew up an Elway. They aren’t called the Denver Broncos and Sons.

But all that somehow doesn’t seem to apply to the LeBron James family. The superstar power forward for the Los Angeles Lakers has been dreaming for a long time about a day when he could play on the same court as his son Bronny. The problem is Bronny isn’t good enough to play in the NBA. He was barely good enough to play at USC, where he toiled one season and averaged 4.8 points a game as a backup guard.


But the Lakers management would do a swan dive into an empty pool for LeBron — especially knowing his contract was up — so they drafted Bronny with the 55th pick, gave him an $8 million four-year deal and tried him out in the preseason.


He was just awful. He averaged 4.2 points per game, shot less than 25 percent and heaved up a dozen three-point attempts, making only one. You do that in preseason, you immediately get cut or shipped down to the G League, where you can hone your bricklaying skills in solitude.

Instead, the Lakers slapped him on the roster for the season opener against Minnesota. In the second quarter, father (nearly 40) and son (20) rose from the bench in unison and entered the game, the first father and son to play together in NBA history. Bronny took one shot, missed, got one rebound, no steals, no assists and left after three minutes.


Everybody glowed about “history being made.” TNT’s Kenny Smith gushed that it was an “unbelievable accomplishment by the James family.” It “gave me little chills,” said teammate Anthony Davis. Said LeBron: “I will never forget that moment.”


Oh, pleeeease. This wasn’t history. It was hokum. It was as phony as Cheez Whiz. It was choreographed cringe theater. Bronny is not gifted at this game like his father. The moment was gifted to him by his father. That’s it.

An NBA game isn’t Bring Your Child to Work Day. Just because a dad has a crazy dream doesn’t mean it must come true. Usain Bolt has three kids. Do they get to run in the Olympics now?

The Lakers even stuck Ken Griffey Sr. and Jr. in the crowd, the first father/son duo to do it in major league baseball. The difference is that the Griffeys were both All-Stars. The only way Bronny is getting into an All-Star Game is with StubHub.


It gets worse. Bronny is going on the Lakers’ five-game road trip starting this week, which will hit Cleveland on Wednesday, 45 minutes from Akron, where both father and son were born. So get out the tissues, Cleveland fans, for the Nepotism Tour.


I feel bad for the kid. Bronny didn’t push this, his dad did. This isn’t “special.” This is staged. Bronny isn’t within an O’Hare runway of being ready for it. He needs years of work on his game in the G League and I’m not even sure that will be enough.

He’s barely 6-1, doesn’t have much in the way of a guard’s ballhandling skills and would have trouble creating a shot in an empty gym. He got blocked by Kevin Durant the other night in a moment that was just … embarrassing.


Maybe LeBron can ask the rest of the NBA to stop guarding him so closely?

Can you imagine the pressure on the kid? He’s only 20. Jerry Seinfeld has a 21-year-old son, Julian. Maybe in the middle of Seinfeld’s next stand-up at Carnegie Hall, he should spot him in the audience and go, “Hey, Julian. C’mon up and do five minutes!”


And what about other young Lakers sitting on the bench, dying for their chance to get into the game? They have to sit and watch a kid who shouldn’t even be in the league — a kid they eat for a between-meal snack every day in practice — getting in while they rot.

I’m generally a monster LeBron fan. No NBA athlete has played so fabulously for so long with so few pianos falling on his head — no tabloid stuff about mistresses or 3 a.m. nightclub messes. He built a school. He’s a good, unselfish man.


But this is selfish, self-indulgent schlock. You want to be a good father? Don’t hand your son everything. This is why kids who get a Jag for their 16th birthday never wax it. Let him work hard and try to earn it himself. That way, if and when it happens, he can feel proud, not sheepish.

Look, LeBron, if you want to feel the joy of playing basketball with your son, put a hoop up in the driveway like everybody else.
 
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