The 2024-25 season of the NBA It has started strong. In just a couple of days, fans have been able to enjoy a strong defending champion like the Boston Celtics, a runner-up like Luka Doncic giving a show from minute 1and even the good role of the only Spanish player in the American basketball league, the Canarian Santi Aldamaof the Memphis Grizzlies. However, if any story attracted the spotlight in the first meetings, it was undoubtedly the debut of the first father-son couple in the best league in the world.
The first minutes together on the court of LeBron James and his son Bronny They took a good part of the attention from the start of the league, since nothing like this had ever occurred before in the NBA. JJ Redick, coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, did not want to make the fans wait to offer this powerful image and had them play head-to-head in the first game of the season.
The scion of the NBA megastar, about whose level there are many doubts, made a discreet debutbut once the nerves were overcome, his name was forever written in the history books of basketball and the American championship.
Step back to gain momentum
Unfortunately for him, it seems that once the milestone has been recorded, he will have to sweat to earn more minutes accompanying his father on the court, since the Lakers have decided that Bronny will become part of the G-League team, the league developmental.
Already in the second game of the Los Angeles team, another victory this time against the Phoenix Suns (123-116), LeBron’s son had to see his father shine from the bench. While the veteran star added 21 points and 8 assists, Bronny sat the entire game in the Crypto.com Arena.
After returning from a demanding Lakers tour of Cleveland, Toronto, Detroit and Memphis, the rookie will be integrated into the discipline of the South Bay, a team associated with the Angelenos in the G-League with the aim of continuing to grow as a player. Away from his father and the spotlight of the NBA, the Lakers leaders hope that Bronny, who is only 20 years old, can perfect his basketball without feeling so much pressure on his shoulders.
The case of Bronny James, chosen as number 55 in the second round in the last NBA Draft, is not strange, because during the last season 23 of the 28 players selected in the second round had to practice and add minutes in the development league .
«Our plans are always flexible and based on real time. The option of Bronny being between the Lakers and South Bay has always been present from day one. Rob Pelinka and I have talked about that. LeBron has also talked about it», explained coach JJ Redick,
“I’m looking forward to seeing him continue to grow as a player, whether it’s here with us or with the G-League team, and continue to get better and better,” said LeBron James.
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