There was a lot of cautious optimism about Bronny James in the Los Angeles Lakers pre-season calendar this month. He had shown promise during the regular Gague of G season, and he followed with a decent basketball during the Las Vegas Summer League in July.
But so far, during pre-season 2025-26, James had trouble. He missed all his attempts at 12 goals and eight 3 -point trials against the Phoenix Suns, and Sunday against the Golden State Warriors, he went 2 out of 6 and committed five reversals.
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There is no doubt that fans of Lakers wonder again if the second -year goalkeeper belongs even to the NBA. The former big man of the Lakers, Kwame Brown, discharged on James and said that there were players currently in high school who are better (H / T Lakers daily).
“And it’s not the first year,” he said. “It’s the second year. It’s the second year – it doesn’t make sense. We got high school players better than Bronny. Absolutely that secondary players have better than Bronny. Bronny has never been the best high school player in his team. He has never been the best university player on his team. And he still does not get 12 shots in a pre-season game where everyone is auditioned, where nobody passes the ball normally. Everyone trying to get, [expletive] Because these are new people there. It’s not just you.
James attended the Sierra Canyon school in the San Fernando valley, and although he has shown a lot of growth as a senior there, he was not a huge star. He then played a university basketball season at the University of Southern California, where he collected an average of 4.8 points in 19.3 minutes per game and pulled 36.6% on the field and 26.7% at 3 points.
Many are always upset that his father, LeBron James, would have channeled him in the NBA and on the Lakers despite not displaying a ton of potential in high school or collegial level. This accusation led to a quarrel between the elder James and the personality of Espn Stephen A. Smith and a fall between the two men.
The young James will be 21 on Monday, October 6. The moment is now possible for him if he will finally prove that he is worthy of playing in the NBA and winning a coherent place of rotation.
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This article originally appeared on LeBron Wire: the former big man of the Lakers: “ We have better secondary players than Bonny ”
