Bronny James plays his first game for the Lakers just eight days after being drafted – but he’ll have to wait to team up with dad LeBron in Los Angeles

Bronny James performed his first sport for the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday afternoon. 

Bronny was taken by the Lakers with the No. 55 choose in final month’s NBA Draft, turning into the primary participant to be drafted whereas his father is an energetic participant.  

His dad could also be away with the US Olympics crew in Las Vegas however Bronny wasted no time in placing on the long-lasting yellow and purple jersey for the Lakers’ Summer time League sport towards the Sacramento Kings in San Francisco. 

Carrying outsized headphones, Bronny seemed a lot like his well-known father throughout the warm-up it induced some individuals at Chase Heart to do a double-take.

James missed his preliminary two photographs whereas taking part in six minutes in his first run of motion – grabbing a defensive rebound one minute, 20 seconds into the sport then lacking a 21-foot soar shot moments later.

He performed within the Lakers’ Summer time League sport towards the Sacramento Kings in San Francisco

He got here up quick on a 26-foot 3-point attempt on the 4:23 mark of the opening quarter earlier than getting a breather.

If all goes as deliberate, the 19-year-old and his dad will turn into the primary father-son pair to play within the NBA on the similar time – and on the identical crew no much less.

Bronny is NBA profession scoring chief LeBron’s oldest son. He survived a cardiac arrest final July 24 throughout an off-the-cuff crew exercise at USC and it was later decided he had a congenital coronary heart defect.

The youthful James signed a four-year contract that may pay him $7.9 million.

‘It is for certain amplified the quantity of strain,’ Bronny stated this previous week when formally launched by the Lakers.

‘I’ve already seen it in (social) media and on the web and stuff speaking about (how) I won’t deserve a chance. 

‘However I have been coping with stuff like this for my complete life. It is nothing completely different. It is extra amplified for certain, however I can get by it.’

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