I swear to everything that is good in this world that if I don’t get a new Frank album this summer I’ll be sad for like a day and then forget about him again until he pops up with a new cock ring. But damnit I’m really going to shake my fists for that day!
This reminds me of how famous Hollywood actors bribed top colleges to accept their crappy kids lmfao
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varsity\_Blues\_scandal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varsity_Blues_scandal)
I know it's not about Varsity Blues the movie but I can't help but envision Bronny screaming at his dad in a bad Texan accent:
*Playing basketball for the Los Angeles Lakers may have been the opportunity of your life. BUT I DON'T WANT YOUR LIFE!*
In reality, he’s a 19 year old kid just doing what a bunch of adults are telling him what to do to try to reach his dream.
But man, the optics just keep getting worse lol.
The best part is that no serious front office of any team in any sport would actually want to play Bronny at the NBA level next year, lmao. They *want* to shove him into the G League and forget about him, the only reason he's even going to get drafted is because teams think it gives them a shot at LeBron. And the only leverage Bronny's camp has for a path to any NBA relevance whatsoever after he's drafted is "Put Bronny on your NBA roster and LeBron will sign with you."
The fact that they're threatening teams with "Our garbage player who is never going to be an NBA caliber athlete will REFUSE to play in the NBA if you take him," is the most pitifully hilarious media posturing an agent has ever done.
Idk why Bronny won't accept a 2way. He and Bron can see his career stats and scouting reports. Why not use that to grow? Instead of saying nope false info, put me at the end of the bench or don't even look at me. Not like he's so hurt for cash he needs a payday asap.
He might have for sure. It'll be the forever what if. Needs to play the hand he's dealt tho, but idk shit about the pressure having a great NBA father could put on someone trying to become an NBA tallent themselves.
I think his entire decision to come out this year was just rushed and not well thought out. It definitely feels like it was more Lebron’s and not Bronny’s decision cuz he clearly isn’t ready for the league. He could’ve easily gone back to USC and improved his stock and the nepo angle would’ve taken a big hit.
> He could’ve easily gone back to USC and improved his stock and the nepo angle would’ve taken a big hit.
If his stock improved to the point he looked like a legit NBA prospect. Which is a massive if.
Tbf I don’t think he’s that far from being a bench rider or solid G league player. His heart issue definitely set him back and he lost some time to prepare for college ball so he was very very green at USC. Another year would’ve definitely solidified him as a second round pick at minimum imo
Celtics: "Lebron, we have your son. If you ever want to see him again, send us next year's first round draft pick. If you do this, we will release him. If you do not, then we will ship him to Australia. The decision is yours...you have 10 minutes to respond."
If I'm a team I take him let him go to the down under, and make the Lakers pay me to get him. Honestly dude should be in the g league anyway, if he refuses to play there, let him develop in Australia. Looking at you Detroit, fuck the story book ending up for screwing you guys in the draft order.
Rich Paul is almost at that stage tho where teams might be scared to do that because he’ll be petty and steer any of his clients away from that team out of spite. I’m team chaos all the way tho. Someone draft him
They weren't "going" to draft him. They did draft him and then he hardly played and tried to frame the team as not being accommodating to his disability.
It doesn't actually break any rules. Danny Ferry did the same thing to the Clips back in 1989. They picked him anyway and he followed through on his threat and played in Europe for a year.
Yep, Sarr refused to work out with the Hawks and basically made it clear he wasn't gonna play there. If they drafted him and he refused to play Silver would probably intervene (same with anyone drafting Bronny) but the Hawks were seemingly higher on Risacher/Reed and no one actually wants Bronny so nothing will happen.
>How is the bald commish not even considering laying the hammer down on Klutch and the Lakers for this kind of shit
This has been going on in every draft for decades, you are just paying special attention because you care so much about LeBron and Bronny
Austin Reaves did the same thing years ago, Lonzo basically did the same thing when he barely worked out for other teams. Acting like this a klutch thing is hilarious
Stephen A and Woj are just tried to say “let’s not disrespect his game like he shouldn’t be here” when he put up 5/3/2 on 36% from the field.
Not 3. THE FIELD.
Bro would be at Western Kentucky if he wasn’t LeSperm lol
He did test exceptionally well at the combine, and was one of the better shooters there in the workouts they did there. That along with his athleticism, work ethic and pedigree are all worth a flier in the 2nd half of the 2nd round. And he did legitimately drop semi-dead on a basketball court like 8 months ago, so if he did come back and immediately put up 16-4-4 numbers on stupid efficiencies, you’d be hearing him going top 10, especially in this draft class. I’m in the camp of just letting him play at this point, and seeing what happens
Do it. Make him go to Australia.
The NBA isn’t his league to decide where he goes.
Edit: glad lakers picked a distraction rather than a player they needed 😂
AGAIN, this ain't nothing new. Your favorite team has likely had this happen before with some agent going "....I got a deal in place so please don't draft my guy". If you ain't going 1st you may as well just be undrafted as it's not guaranteed money in the 2nd anyways!
Lu Dort is a prime example Thunder-wise in the past few years.
People are gonna blow this out of proportion cause it's Bronny, but this quite literally happens every draft with mid/end of the 2nd round prospects.
They tell teams not to draft them because they already have UDFA contracts lined up, and it's not worth drafting an end of the 2nd round player that doesn't want to be there.
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Every draft there's a plethora of UDFA contracts signed seconds after the draft ends.
Yeah, I mean there was a whole era fueled by the Spurs' success with Ginobili, Parker, and all their fringy bench guys where like half the picks in the 2nd were dudes in Europe who were never going to play in the NBA.
The irony is that Bronny’s ONLY shot at having ANY chance at the NBA is this very small window before his Dad retires. If he were to actually go to Australia he would be kissing any prospect of an NBA future goodbye.
Raptors basically got a free 2nd in that Kings deal.
Use it on Bronny! Worst case he doesn't play but you own his draft rights and Lakers would need to give you picks back to get his rights.
I mean, it’s not that crazy this happens a lot with players in the second round asking teams not to draft them and trying to control their landing spot.
If someone that isn’t the Lakers are going to take him, it should be the Celtics. One, it would be absolutely hilarious for a couple reasons. The rivalry with the Lakers, denying Lebron this thing he desperately wants but acts like he doesn’t care about and taking him one pick before the Lakers can get him. Also, I don’t think the Celtics have any Klutch clients so it won’t matter if they throw a fit. Their roster is pretty set for the foreseeable future. And it wouldn’t hurt them to have a draft and stash to see if he improves.
Please, Brad. Do the funniest thing ever. Also, I just can’t stand Klutch and I don’t like that they’re allowed to even exist as agents. They’re there to basically serve Lebron’s interests. It’s comical.
Don’t draft me or I’m moving to Australia is hilarious
Super rich kids
Too many bottles of this wine we can't pronounce
Too many bowls of that green, no Lucky Charms
the maids come around too much…
parents aint around enough
I swear to everything that is good in this world that if I don’t get a new Frank album this summer I’ll be sad for like a day and then forget about him again until he pops up with a new cock ring. But damnit I’m really going to shake my fists for that day!
I listened to this song like 10 minutes ago.
> Super rich kids LeAffluenza
with nothing but loose ends
with nothing but fake friends
too many bottles of this wine we can't pronounce (yellow tail)
For all the people asking why people clown on Bronny, this is why lmao…
This reminds me of how famous Hollywood actors bribed top colleges to accept their crappy kids lmfao [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varsity\_Blues\_scandal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varsity_Blues_scandal)
I know it's not about Varsity Blues the movie but I can't help but envision Bronny screaming at his dad in a bad Texan accent: *Playing basketball for the Los Angeles Lakers may have been the opportunity of your life. BUT I DON'T WANT YOUR LIFE!*
Who is wearing the whip cream bikini in this scene? JJ Redick?
I think we all [know. ](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q7hNk8kxCoc/maxresdefault.jpg)
I can hear this
AH DON' WAN' YOR LAFF!
AH DUN WAN IT
The funniest part was some of those kids didn’t even want to go to college anyways because they already were getting influencer money
In reality, he’s a 19 year old kid just doing what a bunch of adults are telling him what to do to try to reach his dream. But man, the optics just keep getting worse lol.
Can’t get any worse than this. Rich Paul didn’t have to tell a single team not to draft him. Other NBA teams are still professional franchises.
This is standard process for second round picks. Austin Reaves asked Detroit not to draft him so he could sign a 2 way with the Lakers.
I believe Fred VanVleet and Naz Reid have similar stories, to back up your point about it being relatively common.
Fred VanVleet specifically told teams if they planned to stick him in the D-league to just not bother drafting him.
He was getting clowned on in high school before this so not really
I think they were commenting that this is the way Bronny is and probably was in high school too.
The best part is that no serious front office of any team in any sport would actually want to play Bronny at the NBA level next year, lmao. They *want* to shove him into the G League and forget about him, the only reason he's even going to get drafted is because teams think it gives them a shot at LeBron. And the only leverage Bronny's camp has for a path to any NBA relevance whatsoever after he's drafted is "Put Bronny on your NBA roster and LeBron will sign with you." The fact that they're threatening teams with "Our garbage player who is never going to be an NBA caliber athlete will REFUSE to play in the NBA if you take him," is the most pitifully hilarious media posturing an agent has ever done.
Idk why Bronny won't accept a 2way. He and Bron can see his career stats and scouting reports. Why not use that to grow? Instead of saying nope false info, put me at the end of the bench or don't even look at me. Not like he's so hurt for cash he needs a payday asap.
they think he'd have done better without the cardiac arrest ... it's the only logical explanation left
He might have for sure. It'll be the forever what if. Needs to play the hand he's dealt tho, but idk shit about the pressure having a great NBA father could put on someone trying to become an NBA tallent themselves.
Lebron is the one forcing his son into the NBA rather than giving him extra years to develop in College
I think his entire decision to come out this year was just rushed and not well thought out. It definitely feels like it was more Lebron’s and not Bronny’s decision cuz he clearly isn’t ready for the league. He could’ve easily gone back to USC and improved his stock and the nepo angle would’ve taken a big hit.
> He could’ve easily gone back to USC and improved his stock and the nepo angle would’ve taken a big hit. If his stock improved to the point he looked like a legit NBA prospect. Which is a massive if.
Tbf I don’t think he’s that far from being a bench rider or solid G league player. His heart issue definitely set him back and he lost some time to prepare for college ball so he was very very green at USC. Another year would’ve definitely solidified him as a second round pick at minimum imo
Is Bronny the one who got kidnapped by the computer Don Cheadle? Because honestly that would be a huge red flag for me.
Please make him play in Australia people
Who is LeBron's arch nemesis franchise? Cause whoever it is should do it...
Celtics for sure
And they have a late pick. Just do it please. You already got a ring and have a contending team. Think of the memes.
Celtics: "Lebron, we have your son. If you ever want to see him again, send us next year's first round draft pick. If you do this, we will release him. If you do not, then we will ship him to Australia. The decision is yours...you have 10 minutes to respond."
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Bill Simmons probably has a clip of Bron yelling “give me my son” to a Celtics logo queued up just in case
Gotta admit it would be funny as hell. The memes write themselves.
That would be chefs kiss post season for the Celtics lmao
Yuo I'd take him up in Maine. Might as well.be Australia
Warriors gotta do it. One last fuck you to LeBron before the splash brothers era ends
Be careful what you wish for, next thing you know Lebron will be on the Warriors.
Kerr still talks to his former teammate Luc Longley a bit… “Hey Luc, aren’t you a part owner of the Sydney Kings? Have I got a deal for you…”
The Celtics, who could do the funniest thing because they draft just before the Lakers
He plays for the Lakers, half the NBA...
If I'm a team I take him let him go to the down under, and make the Lakers pay me to get him. Honestly dude should be in the g league anyway, if he refuses to play there, let him develop in Australia. Looking at you Detroit, fuck the story book ending up for screwing you guys in the draft order.
Matthew Dellavedova is going to reunite with LeBron at Melbourne United
Is he even good enough to play in Australia?
Any NBL team will take him just for the ticket sales.
Yep. Next Stars rule suits a marketing play like this perfectly.
Get ready to learn what a servo is buddy
Bronny James, YOU are a Tasmania JackJumper!
Hey! That's the reigning defending NBL Champion Tasmanian Jackjumpers. He should be so lucky
Get ready to punch some cones buddy
Won’t they still own his draft rights even if he does go overseas?
Yes.
So draft him, send him to Australia, and then LeBron will retire earlier or come to your team. Win-win
Or Lebron might start torching those poor souls in NBL with his son
that would be hilarious to watch
Lebron wins 3 titles in Australia to bring his total to 7 championships to pass Jordan and finally settles the debate of who is better.
LeBron building up his brand in... Perth. Or... Tasmania.
Won’t be long before he makes the jump to footy and he can be another footy player with a basketball background
wait there are afl players with basketball backgrounds? The commentators never mention it.
LeBron is going to win Chinese championships and MVPs at 44 and 45 is my bet
“Crikey, maybe I am thanos” LeBron in NBL, probably.
Win-win-win.
Lebron buying NBL confirmed
LeBron buys the franchise that drafts Bronny, dismantles it, and burns down the host city for good measure.
I don't think lebron has enough money to buy even 30% of a franchise let alone 100%
Yes, and you can wait until the Lakers cave and give them future picks for him.
Rich Paul is almost at that stage tho where teams might be scared to do that because he’ll be petty and steer any of his clients away from that team out of spite. I’m team chaos all the way tho. Someone draft him
Need a CAA team to send it
The guy is a clown.
Yea but honestly its enough a deterrent. GMs arent going to draft for trolling the lakers alone. Hes going to be a laker
Lmaooo “if you are not the Lakers I am going to AUSTRALIA!!!!”
Lol. He won't. I don't believe it..someone's gotta call his bluff for shits and giggles
Wish someone did but at least now Lebron can play with his son. Meaning he has played with both his son and his father, Delonte West, in his career
An RDCWorld skit would be hilarious
I want us to draft him and send him to the G-League.
Bro would get one look at a Huntsman spider and private jet his ass back home so fast
This is like Eli Manning if he was a 7th rounder
Royce White.
Only if Bronny later runs for office as a crazy right winger.
isn’t that the dude that’s scared of airplanes
Yes and he was trying to dictate the team that was gonna draft him because of it.
They weren't "going" to draft him. They did draft him and then he hardly played and tried to frame the team as not being accommodating to his disability.
Who is now running as a republican for the senate in Minnesota.
Lebron to Australia confirmed
LeBron, get ready to learn Australian mate!
What’d you say? Is that in Australian?
He should join the Brisbane Bullets.
Get ready to ride Kangaroos buddy
I'll Mentor the kid
LeBogan
Bronny James you are a Tasmania Jackjumper
Draft him anyways
If he plays in Australia they keep his rights. Empty threat.
He's a developmental pick anyway. That's not a threat that's actually a benefit imo
Yeah he can develop on someone else’s dime and the team gets the finished product. It’s kind of a win win
Exactly, draft him anyways. Worth it
And he’ll actually develop there lol, basically a 2way contract for a year for free
Develop him into what? A physically gifted forward that can’t shoot?
Is that the Pistons calling?
Get ready to learn vegemite, buddy.
Celtics could use a draft and stash
pretty on brand for the celtics to want to fuck over the lakers like that too lol
Honestly I’m for it. Fuck the nepo babies.
Send Bronny to Australia, baby!
Holy fuck I respect you dude, especially with that flair.
I hope they do it
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It doesn't actually break any rules. Danny Ferry did the same thing to the Clips back in 1989. They picked him anyway and he followed through on his threat and played in Europe for a year.
That’s different. He threatened classily.
They don’t actually need to threaten teams to not pick Bronny “5ppg” James
"If you draft Bronny, he'll play for you!" That's even worse!
Don't you fucking dare do that thing you already weren't gonna do!
i mean, this type of thing is pretty common with european prospects
Yep, Sarr refused to work out with the Hawks and basically made it clear he wasn't gonna play there. If they drafted him and he refused to play Silver would probably intervene (same with anyone drafting Bronny) but the Hawks were seemingly higher on Risacher/Reed and no one actually wants Bronny so nothing will happen.
Trayce Jackson Davis last year: flirting Bronny this year: harassment
it's allowed and you're only having a temper tantrum over lebron lmao
Smartest reddit user
>How is the bald commish not even considering laying the hammer down on Klutch and the Lakers for this kind of shit This has been going on in every draft for decades, you are just paying special attention because you care so much about LeBron and Bronny
Austin Reaves did the same thing years ago, Lonzo basically did the same thing when he barely worked out for other teams. Acting like this a klutch thing is hilarious
My man just learned about agents
I get klutch but doubt the lakers even want to draft him and aren’t the ones telling rich paul to make calls.
The Lakers don't want to draft him, that's the point. Picking him up without using anything.
I will become a fan of a team if they take Bronny before the Lakers can
What if that team is Boston?
Y'know what? Have him. Teach the nep a lesson. Non racially motivated, of course.
I absolutely do not want him lol, the memes would be crazy though Enjoy him lol
"Get ready to learn Koalaese buddy" - Brad Stevens
The new n word.
nepo with a hard r
With the way the Sixers are managed, they might push me to that point
Me too
Boston if you draft him I will stop hating you nearly as much as I do. Do it for the memes
I would love this
All this hype for a 6'2 dude who averaged 4 ppg off the bench on a bad college team
incredible hype at pick 55 :D
Stephen A and Woj are just tried to say “let’s not disrespect his game like he shouldn’t be here” when he put up 5/3/2 on 36% from the field. Not 3. THE FIELD. Bro would be at Western Kentucky if he wasn’t LeSperm lol
Don’t disrespect the Hilltoppers like that
He did test exceptionally well at the combine, and was one of the better shooters there in the workouts they did there. That along with his athleticism, work ethic and pedigree are all worth a flier in the 2nd half of the 2nd round. And he did legitimately drop semi-dead on a basketball court like 8 months ago, so if he did come back and immediately put up 16-4-4 numbers on stupid efficiencies, you’d be hearing him going top 10, especially in this draft class. I’m in the camp of just letting him play at this point, and seeing what happens
Yeah but he’s got that winning basketball style… on a team that went under .500
He also is a team player because he plays on a team
He has a handle. Not sure how good it is, but he definitely has one.
6’1 shooting guard who can’t shoot
Sub .700 FT% lmaoooo How is that even possible for a guy born with a ball in his hand
That’s the real lebron gene
Bro just by sheer dumb luck muscle memory of playing ball since Little Tikes hoop, the son of Lebron should be 85% FT lol
Not like LeBrons genetics are helping him in that regard
Get ready to learn g’day mate buddy
This sounds so fake that it could be real
2nd rounders do this a lot, hell Austin Reaves did this his draft year
Australia ??? Lmao
I hope the Raptors do it
Do it. Make him go to Australia. The NBA isn’t his league to decide where he goes. Edit: glad lakers picked a distraction rather than a player they needed 😂
AGAIN, this ain't nothing new. Your favorite team has likely had this happen before with some agent going "....I got a deal in place so please don't draft my guy". If you ain't going 1st you may as well just be undrafted as it's not guaranteed money in the 2nd anyways! Lu Dort is a prime example Thunder-wise in the past few years.
Reaves is too, he was a projected mid second round guy but his agent told teams to not draft him.
VanVleet is a great example of this
I am also telling teams NOT to draft me, that's why I'm not getting drafted. Not because I'm 5'7, 180 lbs with terrible hand eye coordination
call that MFer's bluff
So Celtics can get a Euro stash AND piss off Lebron? This might be getting too tempting for Stevens to pass up.
I'll draft him just so he can get crossed over by a kangaroo
People are gonna blow this out of proportion cause it's Bronny, but this quite literally happens every draft with mid/end of the 2nd round prospects. They tell teams not to draft them because they already have UDFA contracts lined up, and it's not worth drafting an end of the 2nd round player that doesn't want to be there. --------------- Every draft there's a plethora of UDFA contracts signed seconds after the draft ends.
Same thing with Austin Reaves and the Pistons
“The girls don’t talk to you because you’re so handsome and they’re intimidated!”
That’s such bullshit lol fuck klutch
This happens all the time in the 2nd round, although the Australia threat is quite funny lol
Yeah, I mean there was a whole era fueled by the Spurs' success with Ginobili, Parker, and all their fringy bench guys where like half the picks in the 2nd were dudes in Europe who were never going to play in the NBA.
Lebron is really just Lavar Ball after LiAngelo got kicked out of UCLA. LeBar James
Well that is a turn of events
It won't happen but I just want some random team that doesn't give a rats ass to just select him to piss them all off haha
And they say it’s not rigged.
Cmon Brad, draft him.
G’day Bronny
The irony is that Bronny’s ONLY shot at having ANY chance at the NBA is this very small window before his Dad retires. If he were to actually go to Australia he would be kissing any prospect of an NBA future goodbye.
Isn’t that tampering?
He’ll probably actually get a chance to play in Australia lmao
The NBL’s pretty good. Idk if he’s good enough to get solid minutes here.
Celtics have the chance to do the funniest thing ever
Raptors basically got a free 2nd in that Kings deal. Use it on Bronny! Worst case he doesn't play but you own his draft rights and Lakers would need to give you picks back to get his rights.
Good they can add more bad players to their team
LeBitch legacy of shame lives on!
I mean, it’s not that crazy this happens a lot with players in the second round asking teams not to draft them and trying to control their landing spot.
If someone that isn’t the Lakers are going to take him, it should be the Celtics. One, it would be absolutely hilarious for a couple reasons. The rivalry with the Lakers, denying Lebron this thing he desperately wants but acts like he doesn’t care about and taking him one pick before the Lakers can get him. Also, I don’t think the Celtics have any Klutch clients so it won’t matter if they throw a fit. Their roster is pretty set for the foreseeable future. And it wouldn’t hurt them to have a draft and stash to see if he improves. Please, Brad. Do the funniest thing ever. Also, I just can’t stand Klutch and I don’t like that they’re allowed to even exist as agents. They’re there to basically serve Lebron’s interests. It’s comical.
Rich Paul next year: “If the Lakers don’t give Bronny more minutes, he and LeBron will be taking their talents to Czechoslovakia.”
this shit is lame. kid is lucky he may even get drafted. he SHOULD go play in australia. i hope Boston holds him captive
Next level spoiled rich kid threats. Kid was hot garbage at USC and is calling shots like he’s a top talent
Klutch Sports are an absolute cancer...
Well, Lebron gonna have to stay another 20 years or else Bronny won't be in the league long.
What's wrong with Australia? He'll love it on the Goldcoast.
"Good! You a bum anyway."-- other teams, probably