Bronny James was selected by Los Angeles Lakers in the 55th pick of the NBA Draft and will play the next season of the American league alongside his father and basketball legend, Lebron James.
LeBron, the top scorer in NBA history in the regular phase and winner of four rings with three different franchises (two with the Miami Heat, one with the Cleveland Cavalliers and the remaining one with the Lakers), will turn 40 on December 30 and He is in the twilight of his career. It would be the farewell to one of the best basketball players of all time. For this reason, in Los Angeles they do everything possible to keep him playing and the signing of his son points in that direction.
In any case, this situation was difficult to imagine a few months ago. Bronny suffered a heart attack in July of last year while training with the team. University of Southern California (USC), with which he made his college debut and began the career that has made him a promising prospect. The heart problem occurred during a USC Trojans practice at the Galen Center in Los Angeles, from where the 911 call was made.
He was hospitalized in an Intensive Care Unit, where LeBron and his wife Savannah accompanied him, until he began to evolve as the doctors expected and recovered. Then, after weeks of exhaustive studies and periodic checkups, the 19-year-old returned to training, showed his father’s genes with the USC jersey and now made the jump to the NBA.
All eyes in the Draft were on Bronny James, who can play point guard or shooting guard. He joined USC in the American summer of 2023, coming from the Sierra Canyon school as one of the five best point guards in the country, but his debut had to wait due to the cardiac episode he suffered. “It is an anatomically and functionally significant congenital heart defect, which will be treated,” his family said in a statement at the time.
This complicated his future plans in basketball, but it didn’t stop him from fulfilling his dream. And neither did his father’s. In an interview with ESPN, LeBron told how much he wanted to play with his son or against him: “I need to get out on the field with my son Bronny. “Either in the same team or in a match against him.” And that’s finally going to happen.
This young talent also appeared on the radar of the Toronto Raptors, Minnesota Timberwolves and Dallas Mavericks. In fact, there was speculation that the Mavsthe current runners-up, look for it as a strategy to later seduce their father and put together a super team with Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving.
Finally, the first image in NBA history of father and son playing together will be of the Los Angeles Lakers.
