Bronny James Talks Playing With Dad at Lakers Press Conference
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00:00Here is Brani from yesterday at that opening press conference, of course, playing with
00:08his dad.
00:09He claims he's going to try to sell you not something that he thought about during this
00:14entire process.
00:15Here's Brani.
00:16For me, you know, I always try to put that narrative of me trying to get my name out
00:21myself, but just coming in and trying to get better, you know, Rob has told me that there's
00:29a great development system here, so I just want to come in and get my work in and get
00:34better every day.
00:35But I never really had a thought of, you know, me going to play with my dad, but that's always,
00:42you know, there to, you know, take part of, but it wasn't a main focus of mine to do.
00:49I gotta tell you, like, he's got to, I believe, it's gotta be rough, like, just put yourself
00:57in his shoes.
00:58It's gotta be rough being this kid when your dad is who he is.
01:03So I really believe he's got to find a way mentally and optically to distance himself
01:15from every single effing day of the week.
01:19All they ever talk about is his dad and LeBron and their and their father, son and daddy
01:23and all this other, you know, he works so hard.
01:26He needs to be his own young man right now, like be your own guy.
01:33Stop talking about your dad.
01:35It's embarrassing.
01:36At some point, it's getting embarrassing.
01:38It really is.
01:39It's like that's all they talk about because no one really gives a rat's ass about him.
01:45Now all of a sudden he's on the Lakers with his dad and suddenly everybody wants a piece
01:49of him like this.
01:51To me, it's pathetic because I honestly don't have anything against the kid.
01:56I want him to become a great baller like everyone else.
01:58I play with tons of young kids and I want them all to be successful in their careers
02:03and be great D1 and GoPro players.
02:07I love being around great players.
02:09I want this kid just to be his own guy, be his own man, be his own person.
02:13And don't lie about who you are.
02:16He's sitting there lying to us.
02:17I never once thought about playing with my dad.
02:19You're a liar.
02:20Now we know you're a liar from day one.
02:23Just stop talking about your dad and then maybe people will respect you.
02:28That's my biggest problem with the whole thing.
02:30I'm with you.
02:31I don't have anything against this kid.
02:33I hope he has all the success in the world.
02:37I don't like that he kept the charade up of I didn't think about playing with my dad.
02:43He didn't need to do that.
02:44I think you should just lay into it at this point and say, of course, me and my dad talked
02:49about it.
02:50We've talked about it for a while.
02:51And we're sick of it.
02:52It's going to happen.
02:53And he should say things like, I still got to put the work in.
02:56I'm here.
02:57I got to put the work in.
02:58Like saying it's never been discussed.
03:00It's just we all know it's nonsense and it's completely unnecessary for you to say that.
03:05We talked that he's going to spend some time in the G League.
03:08But that's after.
03:09If he needs to be in the G League, then he should be in the G League, not put on the
03:14dog and pony show playing with his dad the first week or two of the season and then go
03:19into the G League.