{"id":2289456,"date":"2024-07-05T10:59:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T14:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-bronny-james-under-fire-for-saying-he-never-thought-of-playing-with-lebron-after-being-drafted-by-lakers\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T11:01:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T15:01:36","slug":"watch-bronny-james-under-fire-for-saying-he-never-thought-of-playing-with-lebron-after-being-drafted-by-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-bronny-james-under-fire-for-saying-he-never-thought-of-playing-with-lebron-after-being-drafted-by-lakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Bronny James Under Fire for Saying He &#8216;Never Thought&#8217; of Playing with LeBron After Being Drafted by Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-bronny-james-under-fire-for-saying-he-never-thought-of-playing-with-lebron-after-being-drafted-by-lakers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2289456&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the drafting of Bronny James, son of NBA star\u2062 LeBron James, by the Los Angeles Lakers. Despite speculation\u200c and reports that his \u200bagent discouraged other teams from drafting him, Bronny insists that his selection was not\u200c engineered to play with his father. The article reviews the events \u200bleading up to the draft,\u2063 including\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/espns-the-undefeated-slams-nfl-as-racist-ignores-that-the-four-highest-paid-quarterbacks-are-black\/\" title=\"ESPN\u2019s \u2018The Undefeated\u2019 Slams NFL As Racist, Ignores That The Four Highest-Paid Quarterbacks Are Black\">mock drafts<\/a> and the terms of his contract with the Lakers. Many people have expressed skepticism about Bronny&#8217;s claims, believing the situation to be orchestrated. The article concludes by questioning the credibility of Bronny&#8217;s statements and suggesting that his selection was\u200c not as coincidental as he claims.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"> <?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/sports\/\">  Sports <\/a>    <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/%20\"><span>C. Douglas Golden<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   July 5, 2024 at 7:43am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Exactly how credulous does Bronny James think we are?<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the son of LeBron James was drafted at No. 55 by the Los Angeles Lakers. This is pretty much where everybody had him pegged as going, since his one distinguishing factor as a player at the University of Southern California for one season was that he was LeBron James\u2019 son.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d only worked out for two teams: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/lebrons-son-bronny-gets-snubbed-1st-round-nba-draft-teams-choose-players\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lakers and the Phoenix Suns<\/a>. Moreover, the buzz about him going to Los Angeles intensified over the course of the draft\u2019s second round when it was reported his agent told other teams <em>not<\/em> to draft Bronny, lest he play in Australia instead of the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>But, in spite of all that, Bronny appeared before the media on Tuesday insisting that nothing had engineered the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-passengers-on-board-missing-titanic-sub-identified\/\" title=\"More Passengers On Board Missing Titanic Sub Identified\">father\/son duo<\/a> on an NBA team ever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just trying to get my name out for myself,\u201d Bronny said Tuesday during a media briefing<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to come in and get my work in and get better every day,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never really had a thought of me going to play with my dad, but that\u2019s always there to take part of, but it wasn\u2019t a main focus of mine.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bronny James was asked if LeBron still being an active player had anything to do with him entering the 2024 draft:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never really had a thought of me going to play with my dad\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HvxD53VmqT\">pic.twitter.com\/HvxD53VmqT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS Sports (@CBSSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSSports\/status\/1808220407977136221?\">July 2, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, just so we\u2019re clear, here\u2019s a timeline of events.<\/p>\n<p>First, let\u2019s take mock drafts. In one published by Bleacher Report on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/bleacher-report-bronny-james-makes-cut-full-2-round-mock-draft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 31<\/a>, the outlet had Bronny going exactly where he did in the second round \u2014 noting that his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/college-basketball\/how-many-points-bronny-james-average-college-deep-dive-lebron-james-son-s-career-usc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4.8 points per game at USC<\/a> wasn\u2019t exactly impressive, but his ability to keep his dad with the team and happy was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRival teams sound uncertain about Bronny James\u2019 chances of getting drafted, though the Los Angeles Lakers remain the popular guess as to his most likely destination,\u201d the writers of the mock draft noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he\u2019s still on the board deep into the second round, L.A.\u2019s front office could feel pressure to select him, considering it\u2019s essentially a risk-free pick that late, and passing at No. 55 would signal to LeBron how little the team thinks of Bronny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, just in case another team were to take a flyer on Bronny \u2014 because he <a href=\"https:\/\/unafraidshow.com\/2023\/03\/31\/like-it-or-not-bronny-james-is-a-first-round-nba-talent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>was<\/em><\/a>  seen as potential first-round talent once upon a time before his freshman year at USC, where he was recovering (thank God, by the way) from cardiac arrest during summer workouts in 2023, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-taliban-members-brawled-over-who-should-get-credit-for-u-s-withdrawal-and-now-two-moderate-leaders-are-missing\/\" title=\"Top Taliban Members \u2018Brawled\u2019 Over Who Should Get Credit For U.S. Withdrawal And Now Two \u2018Moderate\u2019 Leaders Are \u2018Missing\u2019\">reportedly stemmed<\/a> from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cause-lebron-james-sons-collapse-identified-anatomically-functionally-significant-defect-found\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">manageable congenital heart defect<\/a> \u2014 his agent reportedly bluntly told them: don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, Rich Paul is calling teams, don\u2019t take Bronny James, he\u2019s telling them \u2018do not take him,\u2019\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bronny-james-agent-warned-play-another-country-drafted-right-lebrons-lakers-chose\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN\u2019s Bob Myers reported<\/a>, referring to Bronny\u2019s agent, who also happens to be a close friend of LeBron\u2019s.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cRich Paul is calling teams, don\u2019t take Bronny James \u2026 if you take him, he\u2019s going to Australia.\u201d \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n<p>Bob Myers on Bronny James\u2019 draft status \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p6mWNMAjma\">pic.twitter.com\/p6mWNMAjma<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNNBA\/status\/1806433501299773945?\">June 27, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/bronny-james-signs-multi-year-guaranteed-contract-with-the-los-angeles-lakers-report-180125058.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yahoo Sports<\/a> noted, Bronny also received a four-year contract with the Lakers worth $7.9 million. While that number isn\u2019t eye-popping by NBA standards, it is for a No. 55 pick in the draft.<\/p>\n<p>In case you\u2019re unfamiliar with how the NBA draft works, this isn\u2019t the NFL; pretty much anyone drafted outside the top 10 in most years is considered a bench player or a risk at <em>best<\/em>, and second-round players are lucky to receive money only <em>after<\/em> they\u2019ve made the team via impressive play in training camp or the NBA Summer League.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/sports\/nba\/lakers-bronny-james-still-expected-play-g-league-despite-contract-report-1921222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsweek<\/a>, this is a \u201cone-way contract\u201d \u2014 or a contract that stipulates that he\u2019s a player with the Lakers. Almost everyone picked in the second-round who ends up signing with their team signs what\u2019s known as a \u201ctwo-way contract,\u201d which allows them to play with lower-level team affiliates or other leagues abroad to sharpen their skills should they not be added to the roster.<\/p>\n<p>While Bronny is still expected to play in the NBA\u2019s developmental G League, sources say, his agent also staunchly refused to sign a two-way deal before the draft began despite the fact everyone knew he wasn\u2019t getting picked in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>So, to reiterate: Bronny got drafted where everyone predicted he would be almost a month before the draft and got a contract that\u2019s relatively unprecedented for someone drafted at his spot, all after a report from a well-placed insider that his agent \u2014 who stipulated that he wouldn\u2019t sign anything less than that barely precedented deal \u2014 was telling all 29 NBA teams not called the Los Angeles Lakers not to draft Bronny, or he was going to go play in Oz instead.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s all just a coincidence that had never occurred to Bronny James, according to Bronny James. Right. You may be shocked, but people weren\u2019t buying this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cI never really had a thought about me going to play with my dad\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bronny James has mastered the art of lying much like his father<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zfeZk2Aw6r\">pic.twitter.com\/zfeZk2Aw6r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barstoolsports\/status\/1808235035583205606?\">July 2, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">He only just learned his dad is on the Lakers<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Whop (@WhopIO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhopIO\/status\/1808239266268320242?\">July 2, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Never? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sw7mvmjnGX\">pic.twitter.com\/sw7mvmjnGX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Florida Man \ud83e\udd2a (@DaveInTheHSV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaveInTheHSV\/status\/1808236492621299749?\">July 2, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Why is he ruining the only NBA story I\u2019ve like in awhile?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benton Howser (@bentonhowser) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bentonhowser\/status\/1808247954442277241?\">July 2, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is about as much credence as Bronny\u2019s words carry.<\/p>\n<p>I can be asked to believe a lot of things \u2014 and if Bronny doesn\u2019t want to talk about being a nepo baby, there\u2019s certainly a more diplomatic, believable excuse than this. But to tell America and the world that you <em>never <\/em>expected this to happen when it was so clearly engineered?<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/lakers-draft-lebrons-son-bronny-create-first-ever-father-son-duo-historic-move\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bronny<\/a> thinks he\u2019s fooling \u2014 but as for people he\u2019s actually fooling, the answer is either 1) nobody or 2) pretty close to it. Thanks for trying, though.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>A Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>\u201cWe don\u2019t even know if an election will be held in 2024.\u201d Those 12 words have been stuck in my head since I first read them. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Former Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn recently made that comment to Floyd Brown, founder of The Western Journal. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>And if the leftists and the elites get their way, that\u2019s exactly what will happen \u2014 no real election, no real choice for the Electoral College, and no real say for the American people. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Western Journal is fighting to keep that from happening, but we can\u2019t do it alone.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We work tirelessly to expose the lying leftist media and the corrupt America-hating elites.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>But Big Tech\u2019s stranglehold is now so tight that <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>without help<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  from you, we will not be able to continue the fight. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The 2024 election is literally the most important election for every living American. 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Please don\u2019t wait one minute.<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>  Donate right now<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Thank you for reading,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Josh Manning<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Deputy Managing Editor<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>P.S. Please <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>stand with us<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  today.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/body><\/html><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How gullible does Bronny James think we are? Last week, he was drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers, pretty much where everyone expected him to go because he is LeBron James&#8217; son. Despite reports that his agent told other teams not to draft him, Bronny insisted that his selection was not engineered to create the first father\/son duo on an NBA team. However, the timeline of events and the details of his contract suggest otherwise. It seems unlikely that Bronny was unaware of the circumstances surrounding his draft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":2289457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/James-Father-and-Son.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32998,9936,7815,33985,4516],"class_list":["post-2289456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bronny-james","tag-lakers","tag-lebron","tag-under-fire","tag-watch"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/James-Father-and-Son.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2289457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}