{"id":485004,"date":"2024-07-07T04:50:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T08:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485004"},"modified":"2024-07-07T02:50:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T06:50:48","slug":"bronny-james-makes-lakers-debut-in-a-loss-to-sacramento-kings","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/bronny-james-makes-lakers-debut-in-a-loss-to-sacramento-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronny James makes Lakers debut in a loss to Sacramento Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bronny James showed his potential again but struggled with his shooting in his debut game for the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/los-angeles-lakers\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/los-angeles-lakers\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/los-angeles-lakers\/\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a><\/a><\/a> on Saturday, scoring four points on two-for-nine shooting as the Lakers lost 108-94 to the Sacramento Kings in their Summer League matchup.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old son of NBA legend <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/lebron-james\/\">LeBron James<\/a> scored his first points since being drafted last month with a driving layup off the glass in the second quarter. His second basket came in the third quarter when he used a behind-the-back dribble to create space and hit a pull-up jumper from 15 feet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bronny James opened up on his Lakers Summer League debut.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcten?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@mcten<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jzw9vPIKvK\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/jzw9vPIKvK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1809764358387384665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In addition to his four points, Bronny contributed two rebounds, two assists, and a steal in 21 minutes of play in San Francisco. A highly-touted high school player, Bronny played one season at the University of Southern California (USC) before it was cut short by a cardiac arrest last year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dQ7qOu2qhs\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/dQ7qOu2qhs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bronny (@BronnyJamesJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BronnyJamesJr\/status\/1809715179107782876?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>LeBron, who is entering his 22nd season and holds the title of the NBA&#8217;s all-time leading scorer, has expressed a desire to play alongside his son, a feat no father-son duo has achieved in the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bronny James showed his potential again but struggled with his shooting in his debut game for the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday, scoring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":485005,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20597,16970],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[20598,17645],"acf":{"announce":"LeBron James' son was drafted this summer to form father-son duo next season in Los Angeles","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485010,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485004\/revisions\/485010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485004"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485004"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}