Bronny James will proceed sharing the court docket along with his legendary father on the Los Angeles Lakers’ upcoming highway journey earlier than switching to a shuttle between the lively roster and the Lakers’ South Bay G League affiliate, ESPN reported Friday.
Bronny James made historical past along with his father, LeBron James, in Tuesday’s season-opening win in opposition to the Minnesota Timberwolves, when the pair grew to become the primary father-son duo to play collectively in an NBA sport.
After dwelling video games on Friday and Saturday, the Lakers hit the highway for the next 5 video games, beginning Oct. 28 in opposition to the host Phoenix Suns and ending Nov. 6 in Memphis, with stops in Cleveland, Toronto and Detroit alongside the best way.
Wednesday’s matchup in opposition to the Cavaliers is predicted to be a spotlight of the journey, serving as a homecoming of types for the pair. A local of Akron, Ohio, LeBron was drafted by Cleveland with the No. 1 decide within the 2003 NBA Draft and spent the primary seven years of his profession there, earlier than later including one other 4 seasons in Cleveland. Bronny was born in October of 2004, as his father was getting ready for his second season in Cleveland.
Each LeBron and Lakers coach J.J. Redick anticipated that Bronny would spend time honing his expertise within the G League.
“Simply (wanting ahead to) seeing him proceed to develop as a basketball participant regardless of if it is right here with us or if it is down with the G League crew and him persevering with to get higher and higher and higher,” LeBron stated at media day in September. “His job is to place the work in and get higher and higher, identical to the remainder of us. And we need to maintain him accountable, and he will maintain us accountable. And if all of us try this, all of us get higher, as a result of we’re all one crew. We’re a mirrored image of South Bay; South Bay is a mirrored image of us.”
First-year coach Redick has expressed a need to determine an elite participant improvement program using the G League.
“For us, prioritizing participant improvement, we view Bronny as like, case examine one, as a result of his base stage of really feel, athleticism, point-of-attack defender, capturing, passing, there’s lots to love about his sport,” Redick stated in July, per ESPN. “And as we form of construct out our participant improvement program holistically, he will have an incredible alternative to develop into a wonderful NBA participant.”
Bronny James did not rating in three minutes of play within the season-opening win over the Timberwolves, after taking part in in six preseason video games, averaging 16.2 minutes and 4.2 factors per sport.
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