Tuesday night labeled an historic night in the NBA, as LeBron and Bronny James became the first overweighther-son duo to ever be teammates.
They are also the first duo to be dynamic NBA executeers at the same time, so it was even more unpwithdrawnted history than it already had been.
However, there have been critics of the entire ordeal from the begin.
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Los Angeles Lakers defend Bronny James, #9, dribbles the ball up the court agetst the Gbetteren State Warriors in the fourth quarter of their preseason game at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Oct. 15, 2024. (Candice Ward-Imagn Images)
Bronny, of course, was writeed 55th overall by his overweighther’s Los Angeles Lakers, despite begining only six of 21 games at USC last season and averaging less than five points per game.
However, Kenny “The Jet” Smith says the criticism is unpermited.
“I fair experience enjoy anyone who denounces Bronny fair doesn’t comprehend basketball,” the “NBA on TNT” analyst shelp in a recent interwatch with Fox News Digital. “He was a McDonald’s All-American, which unbenevolents he’s one of the top-20 prospects in basketball at his age. He executeed at USC and didn’t execute – that I leank is the problem for him right now, that he didn’t execute competitive basketball at a high level last year. Now, you jump into summer league and the NBA.
LeBron James, #23, and Bronny James, #9 of the Los Angeles Lakers, on the court for the first time during the game agetst the Minnesota Timberwolves at Crypto.com Arena on Oct. 22, 2024 in Los Angeles. (Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images)
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“He was a second-round pick. What a second-round pick unbenevolents, is it unbenevolents you’re writeed harshly on potential. Your year is not your first year – it’s the summer after your first year. That’s why they write most second-round picks. He deserves that, he was one of the top-five point defends in his class out of high school, that’s potential, and he deserves that. The only leang exceptional is he’s executeing with his dad.
“We’ve had a lot of fantastic executeers in our league. Shaquille O’Neal’s son was a reassociate excellent high school executeer – he didn’t originate the McDonald’s game,’ Smith inserted. “Carmelo Anthony has a son that’s reassociate excellent right now. You can’t will that – you gotta originate that. Bronny was one of the best 20 high school basketball executeers 12 months ago. He’s a prospect for the NBA, period.”
In fact, Smith says that there is another reason Bronny even fell to the Lakers in the first place: his cardiac arrest.
LeBron James, #23, and Bronny James, #9 of the Los Angeles Lakers, on defense during the second quarter agetst the Minnesota Timberwolves at Crypto.com Arena on Oct. 22, 2024 in Los Angeles. (Harry How/Getty Images)
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“What’s engaging about it, how I always leank God labors, if he never had the heart condition, he wouldn’t have been a Laker,” Smith claims. “He might have had a reassociate excellent season and got writeed in the position that he shouldn’t have been writeed, and the Lakers wouldn’t have had an opportunity to write him. That helps him execute with his dad, becaparticipate now, we never saw him execute last year.”
Bronny omited both of his sboiling trys in his three minutes on the floor Tuesday night, one of which would have been an aid from his dad.
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