During an NBA Summer League match between the Lakers and Celtics, Boston standout Jaylen Brown was overheard calling Bronny James “unprofessional” while seated courtside.
Brown is shown leaning over to Angel Reese, a WNBA standout, and Kysre Gondrezick, a fellow Chicago Sky player and girlfriend, to express his thoughts regarding LeBron James’s eldest kid, a Laker colleague.
Reese and Gondrezick don’t seem to disagree with Brown’s position, and the Boston Celtics player expressed his disapproval of his views by shaking his head.
With significant help from his father and their agent, Rich Paul, who reportedly called other teams to persuade them not to choose the former USC guard or he would play overseas, Bronny James was selected by Los Angeles at number 55 overall in last month’s NBA choose.
Bronny’s performance in the NBA Summer League has been lackluster; since donning the yellow and purple, he is 0 for 15 from 3-point range.
Realizing he got caught by cameras, Brown walked back his stance a bit early Tuesday morning on social media.
“Having your son play in the NBA with you is a flex; it shows greatness and longevity,” Brown remarked. “Bronny has everything he needs to succeed around him; I’m excited to watch him grow.”
Although there has been considerable conjecture over where Bronny’s career would stand in the absence of his father being among the greatest basketball players of all time, Brown did not refute his claim that Bronny is not up to NBA standards.
After his dad’s team selected him in the second round, Bronny agreed to a four-year, $7.9 million contract that was the second-largest NBA rookie contract ever.
The son of LeBron James is just behind Sacramento’s Colby Jones, the No. 34 overall pick from the previous year, who inked a $8.8 million contract.
LeBron isn’t at Bronny’s games because he wasn’t picked for Team USA for the Olympics this month, but Brown is.
LeBron, Jayson Tatum, and Derrick White, two of Brown’s Celtics colleagues, are among the twelve players on the team.