Aurélie Sacchelli, Media365, published on Friday November 8, 2024 at 11:26 a.m.
After playing four games in the NBA, for a total of thirteen minutes, Bronny James, LeBron’s son, was sent to the G-League by the Los Angeles Lakers.
It was expected, it’s now official. Bronny James, drafted in 55th position by the Los Angeles Lakers last June, is not yet at NBA level and was sent to train at the lower level by the Californian franchise. LeBron James‘ 20-year-old son made history in the season opener by becoming the first father-son duo to play in an NBA game. But after only four games played, for a total of thirteen minutes and four points, the point guard born at the start of LeBron James’ second season in Cleveland (history will record that it was in Cleveland that he scored his first points in the NBA) is sent to the South Bay Lakers, the G-League franchise affiliated with the Los Angeles Lakers and based in El Secundo, Los Angeles County. The G-League season begins this Saturday for South Bay, with the reception of the Salt Lake City Stars, and will include 48 games for each team, until the end of March.
Bronny has his work cut out for him
According to the always knowledgeable Shams Charania ofESPNBronny James will only play the South Bay Lakers home games, in order to be available to appear in the Los Angeles Lakers squad if needed. Lakers who started the season well by winning their first three games, but who lost four of the next five. Bronny James should mainly spend this 2024-25 season in the G-League, before, perhaps, making his place in the main team, where he is under contract until June 2027 (his father is until 2026). But after averaging 4.8 points last season in the NCAA with his University of Southern California, then averaging 1 point in the NBA, LeBron James’ eldest child will have to really raise his level of play if he doesn’t does not want to reinforce the idea of those who believe that his arrival at the Lakers was only a “comm stunt”.
