There’s nothing quite as embarrassing as getting yelled at by your parents in public.
Try being Bronny James on Sunday night in Dallas.
Late in the third quarter of the Lakers’ loss to the Mavericks, Bronny went to send a high chest pass to his teammate, and dad, LeBron James but had the attempt knocked out of bounds by a Dallas defender.
LeBron immediately signaled to his son that he should have given him a bounce pass, and then gave him a stern look that only a dad would give to his kid.
“Kind of looks at his son and says, ‘give me a bounce pass,’ Mike Tirico said on the NBC broadcast. “I love that look because that look was not just LeBron the veteran. That was also LeBron the dad.”
Bronny is in his second season and played nine minutes off the bench for the Lakers in the 134-128 loss to the Mavericks in the Lone Star State.
Bronny finished the game with five points on 2-of-3 shooting and was 1-for-2 from 3-point range, and also registered an assist.
LeBron ended the night with a team-high 30 points on 12-for-22 shooting.
Bronny James attempts to throw a pass to his father, LeBron James, during the Lakers’ game against the Mavericks on Sunday. NBC The Lakers have been reeling from injuries lately with the loss of Luka Dončić, Austin Reaves and Marcus Smart.
Dončić will be out indefinitely with a left hamstring strain and then on Saturday, the Lakers announced that Reaves was diagnosed with a Grade 2 left oblique muscle injury and would be out the rest of the season.
“It was a shot to the heart and the chest and the mainframe with Luka,” LeBron told reporters after the game regarding the injury news about Dončić and Reaves. “I woke up from my nap and saw that [Reaves] news and was like, ‘s–t’”
The injuries will allow Bronny to get some extended playing time and make a case for a bigger role on the Lakers.
