LeBron James shall be seeing a well-recognized face on the basketball court docket.
In any case, his son Bronny James—who he shares with spouse Savannah James—grew to become his Los Angeles Lakers teammate on June 27. Bronny, 19, was chosen through the second spherical of the NBA draft, after the workforce selected College of Tennessee’s Dalton Knecht, 23, as its first spherical decide.
In becoming a member of the workforce, Bronny and LeBron, 39, grew to become the first father-and-son duo to play within the NBA on the identical time, in keeping with the league.
“Household enterprise,” the Lakers captioned a photograph of LeBron and Bronny, with the teenager including on his Instagram Story, “Past blessed.”
LeBron additionally could not assist however to have fun his son’s milestone, sharing a Nike advert that includes a throwback picture of younger Bronny taking part in basketball.
“Stress was by no means the query,” the advert learn, “when ardour has all the time been the reply.”
Bronny’s induction into the NBA comes almost a yr after his hospitalization for cardiac arrest. In July 2023, he skilled a medical emergency throughout basketball follow on the College of Southern California, main him to be transported to the ICU.
