The inevitable has occurred, with the Lakers sending LeBron’s son Bronny to the G League affiliate South Bay.
Shams is reporting that he’s set to debut for the group as early as Saturday in opposition to Salt Lake Metropolis.
“James can be on the Lakers’ roster for Friday’s sport in opposition to the Philadelphia 76ers, then will rejoin South Bay, in line with sources,” Charania mentioned.
“The group’s present plan is for James to play in solely G League house video games as he shuttles between the Lakers and South Bay, sources mentioned.”
Head coach JJ Redick defined final month that the plan was all the time to have Bronny go back-and-forth between the NBA and G League groups.
“The plan for Bronny to maneuver between the Lakers roster and the South Bay roster, that’s all the time been the plan since day one,” Lakers coach JJ Redick mentioned earlier this season. “(Common supervisor) Rob (Pelinka) and I’ve talked about that. LeBron’s talked about that.”
Bronny was the second spherical, general fifty fifth choose within the draft. He has gotten minutes in 4 NBA video games with the purple and gold to date, totalling 4 factors, two assists, one rebound and has made 1-6 subject purpose makes an attempt.
Bronny took the courtroom along with his dad within the Lakers’ first sport of the season and performed three minutes collectively – turning into the primary father-son duo to play within the NBA collectively. Nonetheless, they haven’t appeared in a sport collectively since.
The Lakers had a promising begin to the season 3-0, however since then have dropped 4 of their final 5 video games.
It’s not from an absence of making an attempt on LeBron’s half although, who scored a season-high 39 factors in opposition to the Grizzlies on Wednesday and had numerous heated exchanges with Ja Morant.
You’d by no means know he’s about to show 40 in a month’s time.
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