Nobody puts you in the Yankees’ lineup just because your last name is Mantle. You don’t get to quarterback in the NFL because you grew up an Elway. They aren’t called the Denver Broncos and Sons.
But all that somehow doesn’t seem to apply to the LeBron James family. The superstar power forward for the Los Angeles Lakers has been dreaming for a long time about a day when he could play on the same court as his son Bronny. The problem is Bronny isn’t good enough to play in the NBA. He was barely good enough to play at USC, where he toiled one season and averaged 4.8 points a game as a backup guard.
But the Lakers management would do a swan dive into an empty pool for LeBron — especially knowing his contract was up — so they drafted Bronny with the 55th pick, gave him an $8 million four-year deal and tried him out in the preseason.
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