He will have to deal with the weight of seeing his name always linked to his father’s, but Bronny James He is clear that he wants to carve his own path outside of the fame of LeBron. Not only in terms of having a successful career on his own merits, but also in the type of player he wants to be and the status he wants to achieve.
And, as The King recalled in his podcast with JJ Redick, his eldest son does not seek to be a superstar like him. Rather, he wouldn’t mind being an underrated player.
“I want him to discover for himself the type of player he wants to be like. Seeing him mention guys like Derrick White, Jrue Holiday and other guys in the league like Marcus Smart, Davion Mitchell. Those are the guys that come in for a team that’s trying to win a championship, a team that wants to win every night, those players that you have to have on your own team. It’s not always reflected in the statistics but it’s always reflected in the winning plays,” LeBron said.
“For Bronny to have that perspective of where he is today is fantastic,” added The King, who acknowledged that he had very different ambitions than his son when he faced his first year in the NBA.
“I know that was not my goal. My goal was like trying to be in the All Star game in the first year, I want to be an All Star, I want to be MVP, I want to be all those things. He’s definitely making his way. He is definitely not his father and I am not him,” LeBron noted.
Like his son, who said that his main dream was not to play with his father, the ’23’ wanted to define his path and that of his first-born son despite the fact that competing alongside his first-born son is one of his dreams.
“My goal was like trying to be in the All Star game in the first year, I want to be an All Star, I want to be MVP”
LeBron James, comparing his goals with those of his son
An illusion that the Lakers are willing to make come true, as they would be interested in drafting the point guard. 19 years and 1.86. However, it remains to be seen what LeBron does, who has a player option to renew with the purple and gold for one more season in exchange for 51 million but could enter free agency. The ’23’ still doesn’t give any clues.
LeBron James also highlighted how Bronny is knowing how to live with the pressure, accentuated in the era of the peak of the social networks.
“I had a lot of scrutiny, a lot of weight was put on me but I wasn’t on the news all day, sports shows, talking about that particular person every day. On social media everyone can comment and say whatever they want and I didn’t have to deal with it. To see him handle this with so much class and conscientiousness and remain stable is just something remarkable. “I’m super proud of him,” LeBron highlighted about the maturity of his son. Bronny just wants to be Bronny.
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