Bronny James is unquestionably not being handled like your common NBA G League participant.
Throughout an episode this week of “The Hoop Collective,” Brian Windhorst of ESPN made a really fascinating revelation concerning the Lakers guard Bronny, who made his G League debut over the weekend. Windhorst says that the Lakers will solely have Bronny enjoying in dwelling video games for his or her G League workforce. Bronny gained’t be touring with the South Bay Lakers on the highway, primarily making him a part-time G League participant.
“He’s solely going to play within the South Bay Lakers’ dwelling video games,” Windhorst stated of Bronny. “He’s solely going to form of be a part-time G League participant, and he’s not getting on United Airways and going to fly to those highway video games … Clearly, the Lakers are high quality with it. They’re doing it.”
The 20-year-old Bronny, who’s on a two-way contract with the Lakers, badly wants the developmental time within the G League. He averaged 0.7 factors per sport on 16.7 % capturing over six garbage-time appearances for the Lakers earlier than getting assigned to the South Bay Lakers earlier this month.
However the Lakers having Bronny solely play in video games on the South Bay Lakers’ El Segundo, California, dwelling figures to be actually detrimental to him. He’ll lose out on half of the G League video games that he can develop his expertise in and in addition won’t get the true skilled basketball participant expertise of getting to journey, carry out on the highway, type a bond with teammates, and many others.
For Bronny, the son of Lakers famous person LeBron James, nothing about his expertise within the professionals has been regular and instead has been much more of a spectacle. That won’t change whereas Bronny is within the G League both as he’s apparently set to obtain some main particular remedy by solely enjoying in dwelling video games whereas his teammates exit on the highway with out him.
