Bronny James is not an NBA-caliber player. He never has been, and likely because of the circus the Los Angeles Lakers and LeBron James made of his career, he never will be.
How bad has the experiment gone? Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith are starting to say sensical things about him.
Smith, who has argued that basketball fans owe it to LeBron to allow his son to tag along every day as if it were ‘Bring Your Kid to Work Day,’ is starting to see Bronny’s special treatment as a detriment.
“At some point, you, as Bronny, need to say, ‘I don’t want this anymore. This was nice. Dad, I appreciate you. I love you to death, man, it was great that you did this, but now I got to go earn my stripes. I got to be in the G-League. I gotta show them that I’m worthy of being here because you can’t always be here to cover me etc etc,’” Smith contends.
“Bronny James did not do what it took to earn a spot on an NBA roster,” he added. “That’s the bottom line.”
That’s quite the turnaround. What changed?
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Skip Bayless Too?
Even Skip Bayless, who has long advocated that Bronny James will be special in the basketball world, is starting to have doubts.
“I’ve held out as long as I could, but I’m just not seeing LeBron James Jr. as an NBA player, now or maybe ever,” Bayless said. “I sincerely hope I am so wrong about this because LeBron and his wife did such a great job of raising this young man, and I have rooted for him from the start.”
“I kept arguing on television that playing alongside his father would bring out the best in him.”
Like Smith, he, too, concludes that James’s only hope is to fine-tune his craft in the G League.
How bad does it have to be when two public sports figures who are perpetually wrong about everything they analyze come together and universally agree on something?
The answer – pretty bad.
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Bronny James Still Getting Special Treatment
The problem here is that the Lakers have decided to get Bronny some work in the G League, where he can try to improve upon a field goal percentage that makes Angel Reese look like she’s throwing darts.
But, as per usual, they gave him more nepo baby treatment.
The Lakers will have him splitting time between G League games when their affiliate, South Bay, is playing at home and some regular NBA roster games. Meaning he doesn’t have to travel on the road with his teammates. Experience the grind of an actual season.
Brian Windhorst, an ESPN basketball analyst, recently criticized the Lakers for Bronny’s “special treatment.”
“On this particular instance, I think that’s gone too far, and I don’t think that benefits Bronny. I don’t think it benefits the South Bay Lakers,” Windhorst surmised. “And I don’t think it benefits LeBron at that point.”
All this for a guy who, on his best night, might be able to give you 4 points on 2 for 15 shooting.
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