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The Golden State Warriors considered taking Bronny James at No. 52, sources tell ESPN's Ramona Shelburne. The Warriors liked Bronny's skill set and had him on their draft board. 

The Warriors ultimately decided to respect the wishes of LeBron James that Bronny fall to the Los Angeles Lakers' selection at No. 55. The Warriors also had interest in trading for LeBron James ahead of last season's trade deadline.

As the second round of the NBA draft began in June, Rich Paul reportedly told teams interested in selecting Bronny James not to pick him and that he would play the 24-25 season in Australia if they did.

Bronny James is on a standard NBA contract with the Lakers.

Via Ramona Shelburne/ESPN

Lies


They wanted to draft Bronny so LeBron can opt out and sign with the Warriors. Stop.

Rodimus921 wrote:Lies


They wanted to draft Bronny so LeBron can opt out and sign with the Warriors. Stop.

Of course... But, it's not like they're going to admit to the league, the fans, or Bronnie that they were only considering him as a means to land his father.

Riiight.

I'm sure every team drafting before the lakers jokingly considered it.

Rek wrote:

Rodimus921 wrote:Lies


They wanted to draft Bronny so LeBron can opt out and sign with the Warriors. Stop.

Of course... But, it's not like they're going to admit to the league, the fans, or Bronnie that they were only considering him as a means to land his father.

That's the only reason anyone considered him, including the Lakers. It's not a secret.

who cares.. lebron is old news

focus on the young talent in the game now

NBA4Lyfe wrote:who cares.. lebron is old news

focus on the young talent in the game now

The article is about Bronnie.

Ramona 'Lakers PR' Shelbourne

Kind of impressive the fame your father has to have to make a team considering drafting you a story. You know considering teams consider drafting pretty much all available players.

Someone should have taken Bronny and made LeBron trade for his son.

Bunch of wusses.

NBA4Lyfe wrote:who cares.. lebron is old news

focus on the young talent in the game now

didn't he just lead team usa to a gold with the "young talent" riding the bench lol

Jester_ wrote:

NBA4Lyfe wrote:who cares.. lebron is old news

focus on the young talent in the game now

didn't he just lead team usa to a gold with the "young talent" riding the bench lol

they barely scraped by and got a gift win vs south sudan.. lebron would have gotten bronze again if not for steph lol

NBA4Lyfe wrote:

Jester_ wrote:

NBA4Lyfe wrote:who cares.. lebron is old news

focus on the young talent in the game now

didn't he just lead team usa to a gold with the "young talent" riding the bench lol

they barely scraped by and got a gift win vs south sudan.. lebron would have gotten bronze again if not for steph lol

and how many minutes did "young talent" play vs south sudan lol

the_process wrote:Someone should have taken Bronny and made LeBron trade for his son.

Bunch of wusses.

I think someone should have done it, too. Don't want it to happen? Make Lebron and the Lakers either use their first rounder or trade. But, you can't upset the self-anointed "king."

Jester_ wrote:

NBA4Lyfe wrote:

Jester_ wrote:
didn't he just lead team usa to a gold with the "young talent" riding the bench lol

they barely scraped by and got a gift win vs south sudan.. lebron would have gotten bronze again if not for steph lol

and how many minutes did "young talent" play vs south sudan lol

between tatum and haliburton about 2 minutes. old news won the usa gold

NBA4Lyfe wrote:

Jester_ wrote:

NBA4Lyfe wrote:who cares.. lebron is old news

focus on the young talent in the game now

didn't he just lead team usa to a gold with the "young talent" riding the bench lol

they barely scraped by and got a gift win vs south sudan.. lebron would have gotten bronze again if not for steph lol

Steph was god awful on defence va serbia they could of subbed him out improved on defence and got the pts elsewhere if not for the MVP steph wouldn't even have been in medal contention or able to have two good games cause he sucked the rest of the time..

Literally nobody believes this. ESPN will do anything they can to prop Bronny up because they're trying to make him their next meal ticket.

Nobody was drafting Bronny other than the Lakers.

Being considered along with 50 others...

Expecting to see more articles this year about the 52nd pick from a weak draft than a MVP candidate like Jokic or SGA

circa70 wrote:

Jester_ wrote:

NBA4Lyfe wrote:

they barely scraped by and got a gift win vs south sudan.. lebron would have gotten bronze again if not for steph lol

and how many minutes did "young talent" play vs south sudan lol

between tatum and haliburton about 2 minutes. old news won the usa gold

Y’all come to a basketball site to talk ball when you dont even watch the full game. Know how I know? Cause if you did you would see that LeBron gets carried and then gets the credit. Dude takes plays off on the court and yall talking about he’s leading USA to gold? This sport is cooked cause of you dumb fans lol

Just shows how agents are too great an influence on the game. Plenty of teams should have picked Bronny for the purpose of swapping him to the Lakers for a couple of their next available unprotected 1st round picks. You don't draft Bronny to get LeBron, you draft Bronny to get LeBron to pressure Laker management to cough up the assets to get Bronny.

People, who know more than I, say LeBron's agent would cause their client players to blacklist any team who dared such a move. Have one of those players on your team, maybe they don't resign when their contract is up.

If my team wanted a player higher in the draft order than they had a pick available, they'd have to trade up in the draft. The Lakers? No, they don't have to do that.