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 workforce as early as Saturday in opposition to Salt Lake Metropolis.
“James might be on the Lakers’ roster for Friday’s recreation in opposition to the Philadelphia 76ers, then will rejoin South Bay, in response to sources,” Charania stated.
“The group’s present plan is for James to play in solely G League residence video games as he shuttles between the Lakers and South Bay, sources stated.”
Head coach JJ Redick defined final month that the plan was at all times 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 at all times been the plan since day one,” Lakers coach JJ Redick stated earlier this season. “(Normal supervisor) Rob (Pelinka) and I’ve talked about that. LeBron’s talked about that.”
Bronny was the second spherical, general fifty fifth decide within the draft. He has gotten minutes in 4 NBA video games with the purple and gold up to now, totalling 4 factors, two assists, one rebound and has made 1-6 discipline purpose makes an attempt.
Bronny took the court docket along with his dad within the Lakers’ first recreation of the season and performed three minutes collectively – turning into the primary father-son duo to play within the NBA collectively. Nevertheless, they haven’t appeared in a recreation 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 a scarcity 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 a variety of heated exchanges with Ja Morant.
You’ll by no means know he’s about to show 40 in a month’s time.
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