Why Lakers are giving Bronny James preferential treatment: ESPN insider
NY Post
The Lakers’ decision to keep Bronny James away from G League road games has sparked some debate about the level of preferential treatment the franchise is giving to LeBron’s son.
Bronny, 20, played just one collegiate season at USC in which he did not light up the stat sheet before being selected No. 55 overall by the Lakers in the 2024 NBA Draft.
ESPN’s Shams Charania shed more light on the Lakers’ thinking when it comes to Bronny’s usage, as he’s played sparingly during his time with the NBA club while splitting time with their G League team, the South Bay Lakers.
“Bronny James isn’t just your normal, everyday G League player,” Charania said on “The Pat McAfee Show” on Tuesday.
“I don’t know if it’s a security thing, but there’s a different level of fanfare when he’s on the road for these G League games, a different level of everything when he’s with that G League team. How do you manage that on the road? I don’t think the door is necessarily completely shut on him playing in those road games as the G League season goes on, but as of right now that is the plan that the Lakers have laid out, and they want him to continue to shuttle back and forth, spend as much time on the active roster as possible.”
Fellow ESPN reporter Brian Windhorst first reported on “The Hoop Collective” podcast last week that Bronny would not be boarding the commercial flights G League teams use to travel for road games, something Windhorst — who has covered LeBron since his high school days — believes is “detrimental” to Bronny.
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