Despite his struggles in recent months, famed basketball trainer Chris Brickley, who has worked with Bronny James and his dad, says he will have a 'long' NBA career.
Bronny James has not had much love from scouts, and as he struggles in the NBA Summer League, those doubts seem realistic. However, one person close to James and his father, the NBA's all-time leading scorer, isn't throwing in the towel just yet. In fact, Chris Brickley thinks Bronny fits right in with the big boys.
Brickley, a famed basketball trainer/influencer who runs the BlackOps Basketball program, hosted the father-son duo at his gym in the Summit apartment building in Manhattan before the draft. It was hardly their first interraction — in fact, LeBron has been training with Brickley for several years. And from what Brickley sees, he's confident James will be just fine. 'I think he's an NBA player. I think he's athletic enough.
At the end of the day, he's an NBA player, and that's all that matters. We've never seen a father and a son be on the same team, so there's definitely gonna be criticism, but that's life,' he says. Brickley also said the 19-year-old's cardiac arrest last summer had a 'huge' stunt on his growth. 'Imagine going through that, and then having to play a season, being LeBron's son.
think it's crazy — any time I turn on my social media, there's someone talking negatively about him, so all the props to Bronny about that,' said Brickley. James is averaging 5.0 points in the summer league thus far. Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
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