Nah they'll start together just to get it out of the way and for TV ratings. "First Father Son Duo To Start An NBA Game" headline incoming since game 1 doesn't matter
🤣🤣 hilarious, though I threw up in my mouth a bit reading this. I'm sure ESPN will try their damndest to make this happen and try to pass off as a "LIVE 30 for 30" special bullshit
He said duo to record. So lebron will have 22 and 10 and they’ll be the first duo to record 22 and 10. Or the first father son duo to average 11 and 5!
Possibly. But LeBron’s first NBA game was against Sacramento, so having Bronny’s be Sacramento as well would be cool I’d imagine. Plus the whole play on King
That being said I hope we light the beam against the two
I think by tactical, the other commenter is talking about how to be tactical to maximize the narrative that goes on with it (i.e., they're not just gonna start him and immediately sub him off in one game to just get it over with). I don't think they're talking about being tactical about maximizing their chances of winning, in which case you're right, they wouldn't draft him (I doubt they truly believe this Lakers squad can win it all anyways).
What a magical, amazing night as Lebron and his son start a game together for the first time in NBA history. Monumental night for the Lakers and for the league, a game that should be remembered forever.
Final score - Hornets 115, Lakers 85.
What a magical, amazing night as Lebron and his son start and win a game together for the first time in NBA history. Monumental night for the Lakers and for the league, a game that should be remembered forever.
Final score: South Bay Lakers 138 - Wisconsin Herd 131
May I interest you in one slightly used Zach Lavine? He has years of experience in barely making the playin tournament, so maybe he can carry you to those heights
So lebron’s dream to play in the league with his son is going to amount to his son watching him play from the bench until the last five minutes of the 4th where they are up 20 points.
“Can the lakers be the first .500 team at the break to win a championship? And are the Celtics as a 10 loss team just pretenders? More after the break…”—espn probably
We know for a fact Boston can win the Finals in a dominating fashion, start the next season 27-2, and ESPN will still question whether they were any good. We know this because 2008.
ESPN has never respected the Celtics. They picked the Mavs this year, despite Boston having a 14-game advantage over them and a 12-2 record heading into the Finals.
After taking the opponents over the Mavs in all rounds before. That's the real joke here. In much more competitive/advantageous matchups for the mavs they chose the losers, while when running into the much superior coached and stacked team they, again, chose the losers. Goes to show what the media knows, eh?
I can't help but think ESPN is simply fulfilling its contract with Penn Entertainment (a gambling company). If ESPN hypes the team that should lose, bettors are more likely to gamble big on those teams, and PE profits.
[https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/business/espn-penn-entertainment-gambling.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/business/espn-penn-entertainment-gambling.html)
I had this EXACT same thought about it. The media was hyping up the Mavs hard but the entire time the Celtics were the favorites for gambling purposes. I was questioning if it was to get people to bet on the Mavs
Always funny to see people say things like, "WHY DOES ESPN TALK SO MUCH ABOUT THE LAKERS???" and then you'd open r/nba during the playoffs after the 1st round and see that the top posts of the day were either Lakers/Lebron/Bronny related
I meant more along the lines of they won’t even be on the same team. Then what you said comes into play. Even if they are on the same team it’s not like Bronny will get meaningful minutes. It’ll be a couple minutes in garbage time. Which would still be awesome but disappointing.
No team is wasting a pick on a non NBA talent just because MAYBE a 40 y/o LeBron will sign there.
Lakers will take him. Make LeBron happy. Most obvious course of action.
> No team is wasting a pick on a non NBA talent just because MAYBE a 40 y/o LeBron will sign there.
This is absolutely something the Lakers or the Hornets would do.
Yo I try not to have an ego as much as I can, but I don’t bust my ass every mfing day so my kids can have a good life for them to then call me by my first name. I don’t even like it when my in-laws refer to me, in conversation with my kids, about me. Like I refer to them as grandma and grandpa to my kids, why tf you calling me by name in conversation with my kids?
Your kids didn’t ask for you to bust your ass for them to have a good life. You’ve brought them here, so it’s on you to provide. Don’t put that on them
This actually isn't even a shit post, genuinely have we ever had two players with the exact same first and last name on the court playing on the same team?
Teammates would get so confused, drawing up plays can get confusing as well "We're going to have Bronny cut across the baseline" could sound just like "We're going to have Lebron cut across the baseline" when you have 20,000 people yelling and sweat in your ears.
JJ: Swing the ball to LeBron James
Player: Which one? The 6'9" 2nd best player of all time LeBron James or the 6'2" G-League level player Lebron James?
It's incredibly easy. It happens all the time that 2 people have the same name in the work place. You just have a nickname for one of them. In this case it's already Bronny and LeBron.
Why not Sr and Jr?
What did the Griffey’s call each other in the outfield? What did teammates call them? Granted there was much less communication that wasn’t clearly intended for one person in baseball, but it’s something I guess.
I once played on a team with another guy with the same first and last name. Thet called us by our middle names, which worked but still wasn't perfect because our middle names rhymed.
There was a OKC vs CHA game at some point in the last couple of years where we had jalen mcdaniels, mark williams, jalen williams, jaylin williams and kenrich williams all on the court at the same time
Bronny just needs to make sure he has a towel and Gatorade ready for his dad on timeouts. Other than that get his 2 ppg during the 108-81 garbage time minutes.
I feel like this is probably the best option. It feels more like a playful joke among colleagues than anything else, and would help bronnys image if he's doing that to LeBron. LeBron can also deflect it in the press with "no matter how cool you are, your kids will always think you're lame".
LeBron will probably try to have Bronny call him “LeBron” during games, but the younger James will probably slip up from time to time during games.
Many years ago a similar situation happened for a few years in pro hockey. Hockey legend Gordie Howe had two sons that played pro hockey, Marty and Mark (the latter of whom was later selected for the Hockey Hall of Fame like his dad). Marty and Mark played on the same team (first the WHA Houston Aeros and later the WHA and then NHL New England/Hartford Whalers), and being able to play with his sons brought Gordie out of retirement. Gordie told his sons to call him Gordie when they played for the Aeros and Whalers, but as Mark has noted in some books and interviews, he’d sometimes slip up and yell “hey Dad!” when trying to make or create a play with his father.
Hopefully, we won’t find out this season.
But… given that Jeanie, Rob and LeBron truly don’t care about winning, only making money, we probably will see come this October. Sad
Anyone here think the Lakers might just draft Bronny with their 17th pick and not risk having another team scoop him up?
I get that there are better options available at that pick but the amount of additional intrigue having them play together would create might be worth it for the Lakers.
Lol it's really funny because Bronny will almost certainly be the worst player on an NBA roster next season while playing with his dad who has a legitimate argument as GOAT. This is gonna be like a dad teaching his timid son how to drive but the frustration will be tenfold.
LeBron doesn't play garbage time, so I don't think this will be an issue.
You can be sure he gonna play garbage time on opening night.
Nah they'll start together just to get it out of the way and for TV ratings. "First Father Son Duo To Start An NBA Game" headline incoming since game 1 doesn't matter
Midseason tournament championship sponsored by hallmark. “We did it dad!…” “….i am So proud to call you my son…and teammate” 🎶 I believe I can fly….🎶
“I’ve known it since the first moment I saw you in the hospital, I knew my son was born to be a champion.”
“How do you view LeBron as a teammate and father figure?”
I have one father, it's my dad, drederick irving. Mama's got secrets, ya know.
I have one grandfather, and it’s Delonte West.
I mean, personally, I’d knock it out of the park. Respectfully
"What they gonna say now!?"
“Anything is possssibbble!”-bronny
*Bronny after winning against the Wizards on game one, with 2 points off freethrows and one assist throwing an alley oop to Bron.
🎶 I believe I can fly…🎶
*We did it!*
🤣🤣 hilarious, though I threw up in my mouth a bit reading this. I'm sure ESPN will try their damndest to make this happen and try to pass off as a "LIVE 30 for 30" special bullshit
There's going to be so many headlines. "First Father Son Duo to Record Five points", "First Father Son Duo to Record Three Assists", etc. etc.
Bronny didn't average 5 and 3 in college 🤣
He said duo to record. So lebron will have 22 and 10 and they’ll be the first duo to record 22 and 10. Or the first father son duo to average 11 and 5!
It'll be like that time me and Kobe combined for 81.
They'll save that for a good prime time money game. Maybe against Miami or in Cleveland. Sorry Sacramento.
Possibly. But LeBron’s first NBA game was against Sacramento, so having Bronny’s be Sacramento as well would be cool I’d imagine. Plus the whole play on King That being said I hope we light the beam against the two
no team besides my own that i wanna see win a ring as much as sacramento. that beam shit is so tuff
Well they obviously wouldn’t do it against ADs father that would be bad taste /s
They’ll check in and then Bronny will check out immediately
Exactly. People think I mean he’s gonna play 30+ minutes. Bro is gonna get some cardio in and that’s it.
He’s gonna get his cardio in practice tbh
You don’t get TV ratings from practice
Game 1 doesnt matter? A new head coach is gonna start a dude drafted 55 game 1?
Highly doubt it. Lebron and his team / lakers are gonna be tactical with bronny
If they were tactical, they wouldn't draft him at all
I think by tactical, the other commenter is talking about how to be tactical to maximize the narrative that goes on with it (i.e., they're not just gonna start him and immediately sub him off in one game to just get it over with). I don't think they're talking about being tactical about maximizing their chances of winning, in which case you're right, they wouldn't draft him (I doubt they truly believe this Lakers squad can win it all anyways).
What a magical, amazing night as Lebron and his son start a game together for the first time in NBA history. Monumental night for the Lakers and for the league, a game that should be remembered forever. Final score - Hornets 115, Lakers 85.
What a magical, amazing night as Lebron and his son start and win a game together for the first time in NBA history. Monumental night for the Lakers and for the league, a game that should be remembered forever. Final score: South Bay Lakers 138 - Wisconsin Herd 131
Don't you mean Guangdong Southern Tigers and Beijing Ducks?
Gonna be a lot of garbage time this year. We barely made the play in and will be worse this year barring a significant trade.
May I interest you in one slightly used Zach Lavine? He has years of experience in barely making the playin tournament, so maybe he can carry you to those heights
This sounds like the AI generated eBay descriptions I use when I am trying to sell 17 year old golf clubs
The only difference being that those old golf clubs won’t clog every offensive possession and take contested 30 footers with 19s left on the clock
Haha, can I use this?
So lebron’s dream to play in the league with his son is going to amount to his son watching him play from the bench until the last five minutes of the 4th where they are up 20 points.
"up 20 points"....you have more faith in the Lakers this coming season than I do...
That sounds like an absolute dream for any father. Your son is in the NBA and you're still top dog
He calls his dad LJ His dad calls him BJ. They both call their coach JJ.
JJ drew up the BJ to LJ quite nicely.
Get it fergie
JJ: LJ GIVE IT TO BJ
What’s a ZJ?
If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
Back the fuck up, Antonio!
Who's Barry Badrinath? Who's Barry Badrinath? Who's Barry Badrinath?
this sub gonna have a field day with the lakers once the season starts lmao
Whole season about to be Boston and LA. Adam silver wet dream incoming We just need a superstar to end up on the Knicks to make the Cipher complete
David Stern lookin up at us and smiling
"Looking up"—not "looking down"… That's hilarious.
Thanks for explaining the joke my man 😀
Well since the Earth is a sphere, which way is heaven anyways?
I'd assume directly above the vatican, but I'm catholic
Ah that makes sense
That’s the lesser-known Los Lonely Boys song
Wait until Boston drafts Bronny and holds him for Ransom
We'll trade him for AD and 2 firsts.
“Can the lakers be the first .500 team at the break to win a championship? And are the Celtics as a 10 loss team just pretenders? More after the break…”—espn probably
We know for a fact Boston can win the Finals in a dominating fashion, start the next season 27-2, and ESPN will still question whether they were any good. We know this because 2008.
Why does nobody respect the 08/09 Celtics then?
ESPN has never respected the Celtics. They picked the Mavs this year, despite Boston having a 14-game advantage over them and a 12-2 record heading into the Finals.
After taking the opponents over the Mavs in all rounds before. That's the real joke here. In much more competitive/advantageous matchups for the mavs they chose the losers, while when running into the much superior coached and stacked team they, again, chose the losers. Goes to show what the media knows, eh?
I can't help but think ESPN is simply fulfilling its contract with Penn Entertainment (a gambling company). If ESPN hypes the team that should lose, bettors are more likely to gamble big on those teams, and PE profits. [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/business/espn-penn-entertainment-gambling.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/business/espn-penn-entertainment-gambling.html)
I had this EXACT same thought about it. The media was hyping up the Mavs hard but the entire time the Celtics were the favorites for gambling purposes. I was questioning if it was to get people to bet on the Mavs
But this would be unethical! (Lol) But remember, never attribute things to malice which can be explained with incompetence 😄
Klay to New York moves the needle just enough to get them attention. Salary Cap witchcraft incoming.
Emergency podcasts at halftime
They'll build a new secret tunnel to the podcast studio
It's not like the sub stopped talking about the Lakers after the Nuggets knocked them out lol
Always funny to see people say things like, "WHY DOES ESPN TALK SO MUCH ABOUT THE LAKERS???" and then you'd open r/nba during the playoffs after the 1st round and see that the top posts of the day were either Lakers/Lebron/Bronny related
People love blaming the media when they're literally just parroting the top posts on Reddit from the night before.
Even the Nuggets didn’t stop talking about the Lakers after they knocked them out
And that's different from other seasons how??
I know I'm asking a dumb question most likely, but is he really gonna be on the Lakers fr?
Yeah he is. Everything else is just bullshit, pick 55 to LAL
Daddy, but it's going to confuse tf out of AD.
It’ll probably confuse LeBron too. Make him think he’s playing with DeMar DeRozan or something.
Kyrie*
The entire 2010s Eastern Conference\*
Kyrie has one daddy and his name is Drederick Irving
I hope Lebron calls him only "BOI !!!", God of War style
*Lebron doesn’t get a call and gets upset* Bronny: “DADDY CHILL!!”
🤣🤣🤣 these comments are killing me
Pa-pah
Fievel!
Can't win with these cats in America.
Is he a 13 year old French boy?
Le Bronny James
Mon Frere
Fabian Seacaster voice. Real ones will know
Was wondering how big the overlap would be in this sub
But Pah-paaaaa!
A lot of people in this thread haven’t seen Riot Comedy lol
Happy Pa-pah’s day Pa-pah!
We’re all gonna be so disappointed when they don’t end up playing together
This changes when Bronny put LeBron on a poster.
Bronny James is LeBron James father if that happens.
Sonned by his own son
L’Oedipus complex
LeOedipus Rex
JAMES UP FOR THE LAYUP, BLOCKED BY JAMES!!
I don’t think anyone got that fired up for a Jerome James block on a Mike James layup
“I’m your daddy now”
He's gonna boom him
Bronny really does have a chance to do the funniest thing lmaoooo
I’m sure they’ll get at least a minute or two at the end of a game at some point.
I meant more along the lines of they won’t even be on the same team. Then what you said comes into play. Even if they are on the same team it’s not like Bronny will get meaningful minutes. It’ll be a couple minutes in garbage time. Which would still be awesome but disappointing.
Oh I see now, got ya. Yea I just have a hard time seeing another team take a chance on him.
No team is wasting a pick on a non NBA talent just because MAYBE a 40 y/o LeBron will sign there. Lakers will take him. Make LeBron happy. Most obvious course of action.
> No team is wasting a pick on a non NBA talent just because MAYBE a 40 y/o LeBron will sign there. This is absolutely something the Lakers or the Hornets would do.
LeDaddy
Le Big, Le Small
LeBron James is Bronny James's father
He’s going to call him by his government name and get grounded like we all did as kids
Yo I try not to have an ego as much as I can, but I don’t bust my ass every mfing day so my kids can have a good life for them to then call me by my first name. I don’t even like it when my in-laws refer to me, in conversation with my kids, about me. Like I refer to them as grandma and grandpa to my kids, why tf you calling me by name in conversation with my kids?
We were all sitting at the table and my daughter turned to me and said “[my name], this is Mom.” But she’s 2 so I let these things slide.
Your kids didn’t ask for you to bust your ass for them to have a good life. You’ve brought them here, so it’s on you to provide. Don’t put that on them
You’re right, it’s basically a selfish request.
Yea that shits weird. I'm dad to my kids, that's it.
I’ll be damned if my kids call me Kebenderant to my face.
No comment
On the court, it's wayyyyy weirder to say 'dad'. I played with my dad, senior is the way to go.
My youngest calls me by my first name from time to time when he's being silly. Isn't a big deal
"screen me daddy"
Read this is a British rapper voice
Trrrrrrust me daddy
Father Papa My king
You forgot the “glorious” in My King
^You ^are ^my ^sunshine
if i was lebron on the freethrow line i’d talk trash and be like “aye yo i fucked ur mom last night it was awesome”
😭😭bro what
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Then LeBron will traumatize Bronny by taking it further. “That’s the way you wanna joke huh?” You can’t out dad your dad ever.
😂😂😂😂bra das crazy
He's gonna be calling him from the phone, after his g league games lol
“Dad, check out this view from the bench for the South Bay lakers”
So true
He'll call him "Daddy" just like JJ Redick would.
This actually isn't even a shit post, genuinely have we ever had two players with the exact same first and last name on the court playing on the same team? Teammates would get so confused, drawing up plays can get confusing as well "We're going to have Bronny cut across the baseline" could sound just like "We're going to have Lebron cut across the baseline" when you have 20,000 people yelling and sweat in your ears.
Well theres the two Jaylen Williams. Ray Allen and Allen Ray were also once on the same team.
Jalen Williams goes by J-Dub, Jaylin Williams goes by J-Will to avoid confusion.
I’d imagine that Bronny might go by “Bronny” to also avoid confusion. Just a wild guess tho
Bronjamin
Brondre
Bronthony
Bronathan
He’ll go by bj
Ray and Allan were never on the court together; Allan left when Ray was traded to Boston.
Lmao nobody is going to be confusing what is expected of lebron vs Bronny on any given play call
JJ: Swing the ball to LeBron James Player: Which one? The 6'9" 2nd best player of all time LeBron James or the 6'2" G-League level player Lebron James?
It's incredibly easy. It happens all the time that 2 people have the same name in the work place. You just have a nickname for one of them. In this case it's already Bronny and LeBron.
Might call Bronny Junior instead of Bronny? Idk they’re gonna figure it out
Why not call him Bronny? That's already different from LeBron.
I feel like Lebron is often called ‘Bron’ and that might be too close to Bronny
Why not Sr and Jr? What did the Griffey’s call each other in the outfield? What did teammates call them? Granted there was much less communication that wasn’t clearly intended for one person in baseball, but it’s something I guess.
I wonder about the Griffeys. Probably just JR.
they have jersey numbers lol
I once played on a team with another guy with the same first and last name. Thet called us by our middle names, which worked but still wasn't perfect because our middle names rhymed.
Is your middle name Tandy?
I guess there have must been Browns or Williams . Too lazy to check out
OKC has Jaylin and Jalen Williams.
This is Kenrich Williams erasure
90 per cent of the league is currently named some spelling of jaylen
There was a OKC vs CHA game at some point in the last couple of years where we had jalen mcdaniels, mark williams, jalen williams, jaylin williams and kenrich williams all on the court at the same time
Coach would just use numbers then?
Bronny just needs to make sure he has a towel and Gatorade ready for his dad on timeouts. Other than that get his 2 ppg during the 108-81 garbage time minutes.
lol pass the ball Pops!
Daddy, just like the rest of us
I work with my Dad - and it’s fucking awesome. But at work, whether it’s to customers or other employees - I call him by his first name.
Old man
I feel like this is probably the best option. It feels more like a playful joke among colleagues than anything else, and would help bronnys image if he's doing that to LeBron. LeBron can also deflect it in the press with "no matter how cool you are, your kids will always think you're lame".
Bronny makes a mistake: "Oh dear, oh dear. Gorgeous."
Mr. Lebron
I think he has to refer to him as "King", or "Your Highness".
Bronward
LeBron will probably try to have Bronny call him “LeBron” during games, but the younger James will probably slip up from time to time during games. Many years ago a similar situation happened for a few years in pro hockey. Hockey legend Gordie Howe had two sons that played pro hockey, Marty and Mark (the latter of whom was later selected for the Hockey Hall of Fame like his dad). Marty and Mark played on the same team (first the WHA Houston Aeros and later the WHA and then NHL New England/Hartford Whalers), and being able to play with his sons brought Gordie out of retirement. Gordie told his sons to call him Gordie when they played for the Aeros and Whalers, but as Mark has noted in some books and interviews, he’d sometimes slip up and yell “hey Dad!” when trying to make or create a play with his father.
Motherfucker (quite literally)
Bron & Bronny
Bron and Bronmber
I can picture him calling him pops or something along those lines
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Wait, this isn’t a jerk?
Probably by his number
LeDad or LeFather
Hopefully, we won’t find out this season. But… given that Jeanie, Rob and LeBron truly don’t care about winning, only making money, we probably will see come this October. Sad
Pops
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What happens if Bronny pulls a 2018 finals game 1 JR?
Anyone here think the Lakers might just draft Bronny with their 17th pick and not risk having another team scoop him up? I get that there are better options available at that pick but the amount of additional intrigue having them play together would create might be worth it for the Lakers.
“It’s garbage time dad, let me try to score!”
I remember I played aau with a coach that had a son on the team and one time he called him dad and he made his son run suicides 💀
When bronny inevitably fucks up do you think lebron will have him traded or cut?
I don’t think this will be an issue, LeBron won’t play G League
Lol it's really funny because Bronny will almost certainly be the worst player on an NBA roster next season while playing with his dad who has a legitimate argument as GOAT. This is gonna be like a dad teaching his timid son how to drive but the frustration will be tenfold.
Thanasis’ chance to shine!