General Manager Nico Harrison held the Dallas Mavericks 2024 end of season press conference on June 21, 2024.
The move doesn’t guarantee that father and son will play in a game together, but it certainly raises the possibility that it could happen in what would be a first.FILE - Southern California's Bronny James brings the ball up the court during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game.LOS ANGELES — It was the dream that LeBron James first floated a few years ago, the notion of playing in the NBA alongside one of his sons.
The draft move doesn't guarantee that father and son will actually play in a game together, nor does it even guarantee that Bronny James will be on the Lakers' roster next season. But it certainly raises the possibility that it could happen in what would be an NBA first — a father-son on-court duo in the league simultaneously as players.
“With the 55th pick in the 2024 NBA draft, the Los Angeles Lakers select Bronny James from the University of Southern California,” NBA deputy commissioner Mark Tatum said in announcing the pick, making the moment official for the 19-year-old, who was born just before the start of his father's second NBA season.
He played one year of college basketball at USC and averaged 4.8 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game last season. He played in 25 games, missing the start of the season after needing a procedure last year to fix what was diagnosed as a Day 2 of the draft saw 24 other players get taken before Bronny James, though none of them — not even close, really — got the attention that the No. 55 selection received, for obvious reasons.
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