“I’ve never seen anything like this. But it [also] comes with being LeBron James son… We can sit here all day and say, let the kid be a kid… [Bronny James is] literally royalty.” Patrick Beverley speaks on the pressure on Bronny 🗣️ (via @PatBevPod)
Analysis: Bronny James' numbers at USC that make him look unready for the NBA
NBASunday, 10 March 2024 at 23:39
The pressure on Bronny James ' shoulders ahead of his possible landing in the NBA next season 2024/25 seems to be far beyond his basketball skills.
It is true that the boy has grown up reading in the American press that his father was going to try to hold on playing to share the court with him. What he may not have expected is that his father, LeBron James, was still one of the best in the league at almost 40 years old and that his level of play in his first year in the NCAA was not what he expected.
So, with the stats in hand: 5.3 points, 2.4 assists, 0.2 blocks and 0.7 steals in 19.8 minutes of play in the twenty games he has played with USC so far do not look like any wonder. While there was speculation a few months ago when he was still in high school that he might enter the lottery, it has been clear for some time now that he is not a player who has any appeal for a first-round pick in the 2024 NBA Draft.
The fact that LeBron James will be a free agent this summer (he has a player option with the Los Angeles Lakers that he will decline) doesn't help the talk about Bronny's future, quite the contrary.
Numerous NBA rumors have surfaced about teams supposedly interested in picking the young Bronny in the draft to try to lure his father. This mixed with expert analysis assuring that the player is not yet ready for the best basketball league in the world and should continue another year in college.
We don't know what will happen. Although we assume that LeBron has it all pretty clear and will have talked it over with Bronny. The normal thing is that the King continues in Los Angeles Lakers beyond this summer seeing his high performance on the court. So, we will see if his son ends up being chosen by a team that is interested in his basketball skills or one that is looking for the circus of having LeBron's son in their ranks. Or no one picks him and he continues one more year in the NCAA. Time to time.
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