A lot of high-profile college programs are pursuing Bronny James, the son of LeBron James, according to ESPN national recruiting director Paul Biancardi (Insider link).
There’s a “strong feeling” that Bronny James will go the college route next year, according to Biancardi, with UCLA, USC, Michigan, Oregon and Ohio State among the teams recruiting him. LeBron has said his dream is to finish his NBA career playing with his son, who will be draft-eligible in 2024.
We have more from around the international basketball world:
- The EuroLeague’s reigning coach of the year Ergin Ataman says it’s unlikely he’ll wind up as an NBA head coach, he indicated an interview with Turkish digital channel VOLE (hat tip to Eurohoops.net). “My goal to go to the NBA has decreasing chances because I see that the NBA is a different world,” he said. “… Their perspective of basketball head coaches in Europe is very different. No European coach has ever gone from Europe to the NBA as a head coach. There is no NBA history, zero.”
- Former NBA guard Milos Teodosic had an agreement in place with Serbia’s Crvena Zvevda but it was nixed by Virtus Bologna, according to Sportando. Crvena Zvezda president Nebojsa Covic made that assertion in a Pink TV interview. “I’ve spoken at length with Teodosic and we agreed on pretty much everything about him joining us,” he said. “It was Virtus who said no, because it would have made things difficult for the club and because their supporters are fond of Teodosic.”
- In the Instagram world, the NBA is much more popular than any other U.S. professional league. The NBA officially surpassed 70 million followers on Instagram, making it a top-10 most-followed brand on the platform, according to Alex Kennedy of Basketball News. The NBA has more followers than all the other major American sports leagues combined — the NFL (25 million), MLB (8.9 million) and NHL (5.5 million).
The instagram numbers indicate a lot of low level intelligence people are on there if NBA outperforms all other sports combined.
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@Arnold
What makes you say they’re low IQ? Interested in your reasoning.
I haven’t seen Bronny play but I really hope the kid actually has talent. I can see them trying to label him as the next generational superstar based on his name alone and that will be painful to watch if the kid is mediocre.
He is mediocre tho
His biggest issue is probably his size, and he is a little heavy footed. He’s smart, and he can shoot, although his release is a little slow, and can make plays for others, but those 2 things are issues he will have
He is more likely to play in Belgium than in the NBA. Not trying to diss the kid, just being truthful.
If Bronny’s last name was “Clark”, he would be just as highly recruited as any other players being recruited by major college/Power 5 schools.
He gets more scrutiny (obviously) because of who his dad is, but in reality, he’s just as good as the other top 50 players in his class.
As much as his name puts him in the spotlight, people expect him to be his dad and then act like he’s not any good because he’s not his dad.
Memo: nobody in the world, let alone ANY high school player, is his dad.
Bronny is a helluva player in his own right, and certainly a 1-and-Done candidate as much as anyone in his class.
UCLA is not recruiting James’ son.
@jon
Why? Based on?
I subscribe to Bruin Report Online and it’s been discussed ad nauseam. I won’t give you the reasoning because it’s behind a paywall. The insider information leaves little doubt about it.
Good marketing plug
If that was a marketing plug, it wasn’t a very good one.