Exploring Bronny James's Draft Prospects & NBA Future
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00:00Now, the Fandled Sportsbook has a pretty robust market right now.
00:03If you're not interested in going one, two, or three, how about the Bronny James market?
00:07And we're getting a lot of hype for a player that doesn't look like he's even going to
00:11be a first-round pick.
00:13Before I get into this specials market, Joe, taking a look at Bronny James in your opinion,
00:18is he a first-round pick?
00:19And yes, will he go in the first round?
00:22No, he's not.
00:24Listen, he couldn't even start at USC.
00:27Now he's going to be a first-round pick?
00:29I mean, this is all undue pressure on a kid that really is going to have to spend the
00:36rest of his life in his father's shadow.
00:38I just hate everything about this, Donnie.
00:41Can LeBron convince a team, Lakers, to go ahead and take a flyer on him somewhere down
00:49the point?
00:50Sure.
00:51But if push comes to shove and the draft picks that you have have to be utilized to go out
00:56and get a Donovan Mitchell, well, then maybe he goes to a G League or goes to Australia
01:01or something along those lines here, Donnie, which wouldn't be the worst thing.
01:05If this is truly about Bronny cultivating himself and becoming an NBA player, he's not
01:10that right now.
01:12That would be best for him.
01:14But for LeBron, if the clock is ticking and he wants to play with his kid and that's a
01:18goal of his, well, then he'll move mountains in order to make it happen.
01:22So don't put it by LeBron to figure out a way in order to convince the guys to go ahead
01:28and draft him in that front office.
01:31It's interesting, too, because you see Rich Paul, who's the agent, obviously, for LeBron
01:34James, has a lot of clients throughout the NBA and a lot of powers basically telling
01:38certain teams, unless you're giving my client, which is Bronny James, a guaranteed deal,
01:42it's going to be no two-way deals, which means he starts out in the G League and maybe get
01:46that two-way contract back up to the NBA.
01:48Do you agree with the way Rick Paul is handling it?
01:50Because he came out and made a lot of comments saying, like, it doesn't matter that it's
01:53Bronny James.
01:54I would do this with any client that I had.
01:57And my counterpoint was, you wouldn't even have Bronny James as a client if his name
02:00wasn't Bronny James at this point, because you're not messing with a late second-round
02:04pick, which is probably what he should be.
02:06Do you agree with the handling right now of Bronny James through his agent, Rich Paul?
02:11I believe nothing of any of what I hear out of them, whatever.
02:16No matter what he says, think about the opposite, because there's obviously conversations going
02:23on behind the scenes.
02:24It would make the most sense, but I think this all depends on what LeBron James' goal
02:32is here.
02:33Does he want, if the season goes, Donnie, hard left, right?
02:38Does he push for Bronny to be on the team towards the end of a team going absolutely
02:42nowhere?
02:44What is the motivation for LeBron?
02:46As crazy as it is, this isn't the motivation for the Lakers.
02:49It's what is LeBron's motivation when it comes to his kid?
02:53What does he want to have happen?
02:55He will do anything in his power to make it happen if that's what he wants.
02:59If he wants to be on the court with him this year, guess what?
03:02He's going to be on the court with him this year.
03:04He still wields that kind of power.