There was an enormous quantity of chatter surrounding Bronny James’ ceiling and Lakers proprietor Jeanie Buss is the most recent to discuss how far she thinks LeBron’s son can go within the league.
Bronny had a reasonably tough begin to his NBA marketing campaign, after logging some horrible taking pictures video games throughout Summer season League
After averaging simply 4.3 factors per recreation on 23 p.c taking pictures over his first 4 video games (together with the California Traditional), Bronny averaged 12.5 factors per recreation on 48 p.c taking pictures in his final two video games.
The media scrutiny surrounding {the teenager} has been immense, however Buss thinks he simply wants a good alternative for folks to see what he can do on the court docket.
“Now we have to let the child have a possibility to play and show that he needs to be in a Laker uniform,” Buss stated on AM 570 LA Sports activities this week.
“Every little thing that we’ve seen from him and about him and his work ethic, simply a few of the issues he’s needed to overcome being the son of an enormous star. He works laborious, he’s devoted. He actually needs to do that. And if we are able to have a roster of gamers with that very same mentality, then I feel the sky is the restrict.”
Regardless of one disgruntled nameless member of the Lakers’ squad claiming that Bronny obtained ‘particular therapy’ throughout Sumer League, many gamers have stated in any other case.
The most recent being Pacers guard Kyle Mangas, who was with the Lakers throughout Summer season League.
“He’s a brilliant good man, he’s quiet, he’s fairly laid again,” Mangas stated of James on the Locked on Pacers podcast. “He’s a tough employee. …There’s a lot media surrounding him,” Mangas stated. “We might get off the bus at our lodge, and there’d be 250 folks ready for him to get off simply to movie and stroll into the lodge. You’ve acquired to really feel for a child like that, there’s simply loads of strain and publicity, and that’s laborious to get away from generally. [I] assume he dealt with it fairly properly from what I noticed.”
