I Los Angeles Lakers they have selected Bronny James with the call number 55 on the second lap of draft NBA 2024as widely expected.
Il LeBron James’s eldest sonfreshman outgoing from USCwill play barring any unimaginable surprises at this point with his father in the next NBA season, the James will become the first father-son pair to take the field simultaneously in the league, a project that LeBron had for years and which is coming to fruition.
Bronny James played one season at USC, 25 games coming off the bench at 4.8 points averageand he is a player prospect that is still all to be done and discovered. Now the Lakers will sign him and Bronny will begin his NBA adventure in yellow and purple. His call at number 55 had been unofficially booked by the Lakers For some time now, no other team has wanted or been interested in selecting the former Trojans player.
In the first round, the Los Angeles Lakers selected another guard, Dalton Knecht out of Tennessee with the number 17 pick.
Bronny James had suffered a cardiac arrest in summer 2023 while training with his teammates at USC before his college season. Operated for a congenital defectthe boy had been declared suitable to resume competitive activity in December and had made his NCAA debut during the current season. USC had a down season, with a losing record, and Bronny found it little space demonstrating that not be ready yet at a higher level of play than in high school. THE Lakers“recommended” by dad LeBron, they still spent one for him expendable choiceat the end of the second roundto try develop skills as a defender and shooter boy’s.
Last week the Lakers presented theirs new head coach, JJ Redickformer NBA veteran of 15 seasons and therefore analyst for ESPN and successful podcaster, also in collaboration with LeBron James himself, and in his first experience on the bench of an NBA team.
