LeBron James is arguably the best basketball participant of all time, however on the finish of the day, he’s nonetheless only a supportive father.
After his son and College of Southern California basketball star Bronny James was dropped from ESPN’s newest 2024 NBA Draft projections, the Los Angeles Lakers icon, 39, defended Bronny, 19, in since-deleted social media messages.
“Can yall please simply let the child be a child and luxuriate in faculty basketball,” LeBron wrote through X on Monday, February 26. “The work and outcomes will in the end do the speaking it doesn’t matter what he decides to do.”
LeBron continued, “If y’all don’t know he doesn’t care what a mock draft says, he simply WORKS! Earned Not Given!”
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Within the mock draft — a predictor of the place faculty and novice gamers will land professionally — ESPN didn’t listing Bronny amongst their candidates for this June’s NBA Draft.
“And to all the opposite children on the market striving to be nice simply hold your head down, blinders on and hold grinding,” LeBron concluded in a second since-deleted tweet. “These Mock Drafts doesn’t matter one bit! I promise you! Solely the WORK MATTERS!! Let’s discuss REAL BASKETBALL PEOPLE! ✌🏾👑.”
Whereas Bronny doesn’t seem on this 12 months’s mock draft, ESPN’s Jonathan Givony does have him going within the second spherical, thirty ninth total, to the Portland Path Blazers in his 2025 mock draft.
Bronny not being included within the 2024 draft would have been stunning right now final 12 months, however after struggling cardiac arrest in July 2023 and returning to the courtroom for an underwhelming freshman season with the Trojans to date, his placement is comprehensible.
Nineteen video games into his freshman season at USC, Bronny is averaging 5.5 factors, 2.8 rebounds and a pair of.5 assists per sport.
What makes Bronny’s mock draft placement much more intriguing is that it assumes Bronny will return for his sophomore season with the Trojans, which has but to be confirmed.
LeBron has been vocal about his want to play with Bronny within the NBA, telling ESPN in October 2023, “I should be on the ground with my boy, I bought to be on the ground with Bronny.”
“Both in the identical uniform or a matchup towards him,” LeBron continued. “I don’t imply like [guarding him all game] as a result of he’s some extent guard and I’m at this level now I’m enjoying heart or regardless of the crew wants from me. However I’d like to do the entire Ken Griffey Sr. and Jr. factor. That will be preferrred for positive.”
LeBron is signed with the Lakers by means of the tip of the 2024-25 season, and, if the mock drafts are appropriate, Bronny would hypothetically enter the NBA the next season.
