EL SEGUNDO — Media days across the NBA are a wasteland for anybody in search of precise info on the document. Fairly, they’ve the vibe of a PR puff piece. For instance, on Wednesday, Lakers normal supervisor Rob Pelinka and coach J.J. Redick spoke to the media, with Pelinka saying he can be prepared to commerce each obtainable Lakers first-round picks (2029 and 2031) in a deal that furthered “sustained Lakers excellence.” Which is a whole lot of phrases to say they might do it for the appropriate star participant, one thing that everybody across the league has recognized — and has been written about extensively right here and elsewhere — since earlier than final February’s commerce deadline.
There was one attention-grabbing story, nevertheless, when Pelinka was discussing the primary NBA father/son duo of LeBron and Bronny James, and the challenges that presents.
“Perhaps the problem is on Bronny when, like in our pickup recreation, I believe it was yesterday or two days in the past, he bought switched on to LeBron, and LeBron took him baseline and up and underneath off the glass,s and the phrases exchanged afterward have been in all probability tougher than anything,” Pelinka mentioned.
Oh how we want there was public video of that. LeBron responded to Pelinka’s quote on Instagram, “Nice protection. Higher O.”
As for when LeBron and Bronny may play collectively on an NBA courtroom, Redick mentioned there may be nothing formal in place.
“We do not have something deliberate, per se, when it comes to a dedication to do it this fashion,” Redick mentioned. “We clearly have talked about it as a employees, and we have gotten it into some specifics of what which may seem like, however we’ve not dedicated to something. And clearly there is a dialogue available as soon as we’re all along with Bronny and LeBron too, they need to be part of that dialogue as properly.”
Many across the league count on the Lakers to play them collectively for a couple of minutes early within the season — perhaps on opening night time in opposition to Minnesota at Crypto.com Area. The G-League season does not begin till a few weeks after the NBA season, taking part in the relations collectively early offers Los Angeles an opportunity to get this probably distracting challenge finished with and out of the way in which, vastly lowering the questions when Bronny spends most of his season with the South Bay Lakers (which is the place he must be creating his recreation).
Redick had nothing however reward for Bronnie.
“Bronnie, I really feel very lucky that I get to teach him as a result of he is younger and he is hungry and he is bought a whole lot of inherent talent units that we are able to actually mildew into a extremely good NBA participant,” Redick mentioned. “On high of that, he is a implausible child. He is extraordinarily coachable. He is bought the appropriate spirit and power each single day.”
That is what coaches and GMs say about gamers on media day, in Bronny’s case let’s hope it is actuality and he molds into a high quality participant down the road.
