EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — After Los Angeles Lakers rookie Bronny James thanked coach JJ Redick and vp of basketball operations and common supervisor Rob Pelinka for all the things they’ve “given” to him after drafting him No. 55 final week, Redick corrected his younger guard.
“Rob and I didn’t give Bronny something,” Redick mentioned throughout James’ introductory information convention Tuesday, together with the Lakers’ No. 17 choose, Dalton Knecht. “Bronny has earned this. … Bronny has earned this via arduous work.”
Bronny’s dad and mom, LeBron and Savannah James, stood off to the facet on the Lakers’ facility as their eldest son reported to his first day on the job within the household enterprise.
“For positive, amplified quantity of stress,” Bronny mentioned of the eye surrounding him becoming a member of the Lakers. “I’ve already seen it on social media and stuff, and the Web and stuff and speaking about that I won’t deserve a possibility. However I have been coping with stuff like this my entire life. So it is nothing totally different, but it surely’s extra amplified, for positive. However I will get via it.”
The 19-year-old rookie, who entered the draft after averaging 4.8 factors on 36.6% taking pictures (26.7% from 3), 2.8 rebounds and a couple of.1 assists in 19.3 minutes per recreation at USC after present process a coronary heart process final summer season, mentioned the practically five-month layoff because of the medical challenge affected his improvement.
“I really feel like I may’ve been perfecting my recreation extra,” Bronny mentioned. “I really feel like I have been given the chance to showcase what I can actually do as a result of I wasn’t on condition that a lot of a possibility at SC. I am excited for what’s to come back.”
Knecht signed his contract with L.A. on Tuesday — a standardized deal primarily based on his place within the first spherical. Bronny’s contract is predicted to be finalized earlier than the Lakers open up their summer season league slate within the California Basic towards the Sacramento Kings on Saturday. Each Bronny and Knecht are anticipated to play.
The Lakers and Bronny’s consultant, Wealthy Paul of Klutch Sports activities, have mentioned a multi-year contract that may guarantee him certainly one of L.A.’s 15 full-fledged roster spots, sources instructed ESPN.
LeBron can be at present not underneath contract with the workforce. Paul instructed ESPN his consumer could be keen to take a paycut under the three-year, $162 million most contract the 39-year-old veteran is eligible to signal to ensure that L.A. to signal an “influence participant.” Nonetheless, the Lakers’ try to accumulate Klay Thompson after James made that gesture failed, with Thompson becoming a member of the Dallas Mavericks on a three-year, $50 million deal, in accordance with ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Pelinka mentioned that the Lakers are persevering with to attempt to strengthen the roster and would come with the 2 future first-round picks they’ve which might be eligible to be traded ought to the best state of affairs current itself.
“I feel if the best deal comes and we now have to place in draft picks, we are going to,” Pelinka mentioned earlier than acknowledging how the primary and second apron construction of the brand new collective bargaining settlement has positioned limitations on groups. “We’re now within the apron world. We have seen contending groups or championship-level groups must lose gamers. That is a results of the apron world we’re dwelling in. So, does it make trades tougher? Sure. Does it make good trades not possible? No.”
Bronny, when requested if the opportunity of enjoying with the NBA’s all-time main scorer knowledgeable the timing of his determination to depart USC, mentioned a father-son pairing was not his motivation to declare.
“Rob has instructed me that there is a nice improvement system right here, so I simply wish to are available and get my work in and get higher every single day,” Bronny mentioned. “I by no means actually had a considered me going to play with my dad. However that is at all times there to participate of. However that wasn’t the principle focus of mine.”
Redick mentioned that he’s near hiring a director of participant improvement quickly to hitch his teaching workers.
“I feel simply usually the participant improvement program we’re making an attempt to construct is holistic,” Redick mentioned, itemizing off all the things from X’s and O’s to diet to conditioning to psychological fortitude that he hopes for this system to handle.
Whereas Redick continues to work on filling out his workers, he mentioned that Dane Johnson, the coach of L.A.’s G League affiliate, the South Bay Lakers, will coach the Lakers’ summer season league workforce in San Francisco and Las Vegas.
“I might be closely concerned in practices,” Redick mentioned. “I will even be concerned in some capability in the course of the video games, throughout movie, all of that. We speak about improvement, it is an unimaginable alternative for Dane and his workers to develop additional.”
Knecht, the 2024 SEC Participant of the Yr after averaging 21.7 factors on 45.8% taking pictures (39.7% from 3)., 4.9 rebounds and 1.8 assists in main the College of Tennessee to the Elite 8, mentioned he has already met with LeBron and Anthony Davis since being drafted final week and with Redick on Tuesday morning.
“One of many issues we talked about is simply being open minded,” Redick mentioned of his assembly with Knecht. “Having an openness and simply letting go of outcomes. And the factor that excites me about each these guys is that their foundation of basketball is as employees. And that is an excellent place to begin if you wish to turn into an excellent NBA participant.”
Knecht, who wore Davis’ No. 3 at Tennessee, will put on No. 4 for the Lakers — enjoying off the favored board recreation, Join 4. “Why not?” he mentioned.
Bronny will put on No. 9, honoring the late rap artist, Juice WRLD, who referenced the quantity in his music. Bronny additionally has “9 9 9” tattooed vertically behind his left ear.
“Juice has simply been an enormous a part of me holding calm in some conditions that I have been via,” Bronny mentioned. “So simply paying homage to him, particularly as a result of he handed, it is a actually essential factor for me.”
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — After Los Angeles Lakers rookie Bronny James thanked coach JJ Redick and vp of basketball operations and common supervisor Rob Pelinka for all the things they’ve “given” to him after drafting him No. 55 final week, Redick corrected his younger guard.
“Rob and I didn’t give Bronny something,” Redick mentioned throughout James’ introductory information convention Tuesday, together with the Lakers’ No. 17 choose, Dalton Knecht. “Bronny has earned this. … Bronny has earned this via arduous work.”
Bronny’s dad and mom, LeBron and Savannah James, stood off to the facet on the Lakers’ facility as their eldest son reported to his first day on the job within the household enterprise.
“For positive, amplified quantity of stress,” Bronny mentioned of the eye surrounding him becoming a member of the Lakers. “I’ve already seen it on social media and stuff, and the Web and stuff and speaking about that I won’t deserve a possibility. However I have been coping with stuff like this my entire life. So it is nothing totally different, but it surely’s extra amplified, for positive. However I will get via it.”
The 19-year-old rookie, who entered the draft after averaging 4.8 factors on 36.6% taking pictures (26.7% from 3), 2.8 rebounds and a couple of.1 assists in 19.3 minutes per recreation at USC after present process a coronary heart process final summer season, mentioned the practically five-month layoff because of the medical challenge affected his improvement.
“I really feel like I may’ve been perfecting my recreation extra,” Bronny mentioned. “I really feel like I have been given the chance to showcase what I can actually do as a result of I wasn’t on condition that a lot of a possibility at SC. I am excited for what’s to come back.”
Knecht signed his contract with L.A. on Tuesday — a standardized deal primarily based on his place within the first spherical. Bronny’s contract is predicted to be finalized earlier than the Lakers open up their summer season league slate within the California Basic towards the Sacramento Kings on Saturday. Each Bronny and Knecht are anticipated to play.
The Lakers and Bronny’s consultant, Wealthy Paul of Klutch Sports activities, have mentioned a multi-year contract that may guarantee him certainly one of L.A.’s 15 full-fledged roster spots, sources instructed ESPN.
LeBron can be at present not underneath contract with the workforce. Paul instructed ESPN his consumer could be keen to take a paycut under the three-year, $162 million most contract the 39-year-old veteran is eligible to signal to ensure that L.A. to signal an “influence participant.” Nonetheless, the Lakers’ try to accumulate Klay Thompson after James made that gesture failed, with Thompson becoming a member of the Dallas Mavericks on a three-year, $50 million deal, in accordance with ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Pelinka mentioned that the Lakers are persevering with to attempt to strengthen the roster and would come with the 2 future first-round picks they’ve which might be eligible to be traded ought to the best state of affairs current itself.
“I feel if the best deal comes and we now have to place in draft picks, we are going to,” Pelinka mentioned earlier than acknowledging how the primary and second apron construction of the brand new collective bargaining settlement has positioned limitations on groups. “We’re now within the apron world. We have seen contending groups or championship-level groups must lose gamers. That is a results of the apron world we’re dwelling in. So, does it make trades tougher? Sure. Does it make good trades not possible? No.”
Bronny, when requested if the opportunity of enjoying with the NBA’s all-time main scorer knowledgeable the timing of his determination to depart USC, mentioned a father-son pairing was not his motivation to declare.
“Rob has instructed me that there is a nice improvement system right here, so I simply wish to are available and get my work in and get higher every single day,” Bronny mentioned. “I by no means actually had a considered me going to play with my dad. However that is at all times there to participate of. However that wasn’t the principle focus of mine.”
Redick mentioned that he’s near hiring a director of participant improvement quickly to hitch his teaching workers.
“I feel simply usually the participant improvement program we’re making an attempt to construct is holistic,” Redick mentioned, itemizing off all the things from X’s and O’s to diet to conditioning to psychological fortitude that he hopes for this system to handle.
Whereas Redick continues to work on filling out his workers, he mentioned that Dane Johnson, the coach of L.A.’s G League affiliate, the South Bay Lakers, will coach the Lakers’ summer season league workforce in San Francisco and Las Vegas.
“I might be closely concerned in practices,” Redick mentioned. “I will even be concerned in some capability in the course of the video games, throughout movie, all of that. We speak about improvement, it is an unimaginable alternative for Dane and his workers to develop additional.”
Knecht, the 2024 SEC Participant of the Yr after averaging 21.7 factors on 45.8% taking pictures (39.7% from 3)., 4.9 rebounds and 1.8 assists in main the College of Tennessee to the Elite 8, mentioned he has already met with LeBron and Anthony Davis since being drafted final week and with Redick on Tuesday morning.
“One of many issues we talked about is simply being open minded,” Redick mentioned of his assembly with Knecht. “Having an openness and simply letting go of outcomes. And the factor that excites me about each these guys is that their foundation of basketball is as employees. And that is an excellent place to begin if you wish to turn into an excellent NBA participant.”
Knecht, who wore Davis’ No. 3 at Tennessee, will put on No. 4 for the Lakers — enjoying off the favored board recreation, Join 4. “Why not?” he mentioned.
Bronny will put on No. 9, honoring the late rap artist, Juice WRLD, who referenced the quantity in his music. Bronny additionally has “9 9 9” tattooed vertically behind his left ear.
“Juice has simply been an enormous a part of me holding calm in some conditions that I have been via,” Bronny mentioned. “So simply paying homage to him, particularly as a result of he handed, it is a actually essential factor for me.”
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — After Los Angeles Lakers rookie Bronny James thanked coach JJ Redick and vp of basketball operations and common supervisor Rob Pelinka for all the things they’ve “given” to him after drafting him No. 55 final week, Redick corrected his younger guard.
“Rob and I didn’t give Bronny something,” Redick mentioned throughout James’ introductory information convention Tuesday, together with the Lakers’ No. 17 choose, Dalton Knecht. “Bronny has earned this. … Bronny has earned this via arduous work.”
Bronny’s dad and mom, LeBron and Savannah James, stood off to the facet on the Lakers’ facility as their eldest son reported to his first day on the job within the household enterprise.
“For positive, amplified quantity of stress,” Bronny mentioned of the eye surrounding him becoming a member of the Lakers. “I’ve already seen it on social media and stuff, and the Web and stuff and speaking about that I won’t deserve a possibility. However I have been coping with stuff like this my entire life. So it is nothing totally different, but it surely’s extra amplified, for positive. However I will get via it.”
The 19-year-old rookie, who entered the draft after averaging 4.8 factors on 36.6% taking pictures (26.7% from 3), 2.8 rebounds and a couple of.1 assists in 19.3 minutes per recreation at USC after present process a coronary heart process final summer season, mentioned the practically five-month layoff because of the medical challenge affected his improvement.
“I really feel like I may’ve been perfecting my recreation extra,” Bronny mentioned. “I really feel like I have been given the chance to showcase what I can actually do as a result of I wasn’t on condition that a lot of a possibility at SC. I am excited for what’s to come back.”
Knecht signed his contract with L.A. on Tuesday — a standardized deal primarily based on his place within the first spherical. Bronny’s contract is predicted to be finalized earlier than the Lakers open up their summer season league slate within the California Basic towards the Sacramento Kings on Saturday. Each Bronny and Knecht are anticipated to play.
The Lakers and Bronny’s consultant, Wealthy Paul of Klutch Sports activities, have mentioned a multi-year contract that may guarantee him certainly one of L.A.’s 15 full-fledged roster spots, sources instructed ESPN.
LeBron can be at present not underneath contract with the workforce. Paul instructed ESPN his consumer could be keen to take a paycut under the three-year, $162 million most contract the 39-year-old veteran is eligible to signal to ensure that L.A. to signal an “influence participant.” Nonetheless, the Lakers’ try to accumulate Klay Thompson after James made that gesture failed, with Thompson becoming a member of the Dallas Mavericks on a three-year, $50 million deal, in accordance with ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Pelinka mentioned that the Lakers are persevering with to attempt to strengthen the roster and would come with the 2 future first-round picks they’ve which might be eligible to be traded ought to the best state of affairs current itself.
“I feel if the best deal comes and we now have to place in draft picks, we are going to,” Pelinka mentioned earlier than acknowledging how the primary and second apron construction of the brand new collective bargaining settlement has positioned limitations on groups. “We’re now within the apron world. We have seen contending groups or championship-level groups must lose gamers. That is a results of the apron world we’re dwelling in. So, does it make trades tougher? Sure. Does it make good trades not possible? No.”
Bronny, when requested if the opportunity of enjoying with the NBA’s all-time main scorer knowledgeable the timing of his determination to depart USC, mentioned a father-son pairing was not his motivation to declare.
“Rob has instructed me that there is a nice improvement system right here, so I simply wish to are available and get my work in and get higher every single day,” Bronny mentioned. “I by no means actually had a considered me going to play with my dad. However that is at all times there to participate of. However that wasn’t the principle focus of mine.”
Redick mentioned that he’s near hiring a director of participant improvement quickly to hitch his teaching workers.
“I feel simply usually the participant improvement program we’re making an attempt to construct is holistic,” Redick mentioned, itemizing off all the things from X’s and O’s to diet to conditioning to psychological fortitude that he hopes for this system to handle.
Whereas Redick continues to work on filling out his workers, he mentioned that Dane Johnson, the coach of L.A.’s G League affiliate, the South Bay Lakers, will coach the Lakers’ summer season league workforce in San Francisco and Las Vegas.
“I might be closely concerned in practices,” Redick mentioned. “I will even be concerned in some capability in the course of the video games, throughout movie, all of that. We speak about improvement, it is an unimaginable alternative for Dane and his workers to develop additional.”
Knecht, the 2024 SEC Participant of the Yr after averaging 21.7 factors on 45.8% taking pictures (39.7% from 3)., 4.9 rebounds and 1.8 assists in main the College of Tennessee to the Elite 8, mentioned he has already met with LeBron and Anthony Davis since being drafted final week and with Redick on Tuesday morning.
“One of many issues we talked about is simply being open minded,” Redick mentioned of his assembly with Knecht. “Having an openness and simply letting go of outcomes. And the factor that excites me about each these guys is that their foundation of basketball is as employees. And that is an excellent place to begin if you wish to turn into an excellent NBA participant.”
Knecht, who wore Davis’ No. 3 at Tennessee, will put on No. 4 for the Lakers — enjoying off the favored board recreation, Join 4. “Why not?” he mentioned.
Bronny will put on No. 9, honoring the late rap artist, Juice WRLD, who referenced the quantity in his music. Bronny additionally has “9 9 9” tattooed vertically behind his left ear.
“Juice has simply been an enormous a part of me holding calm in some conditions that I have been via,” Bronny mentioned. “So simply paying homage to him, particularly as a result of he handed, it is a actually essential factor for me.”
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — After Los Angeles Lakers rookie Bronny James thanked coach JJ Redick and vp of basketball operations and common supervisor Rob Pelinka for all the things they’ve “given” to him after drafting him No. 55 final week, Redick corrected his younger guard.
“Rob and I didn’t give Bronny something,” Redick mentioned throughout James’ introductory information convention Tuesday, together with the Lakers’ No. 17 choose, Dalton Knecht. “Bronny has earned this. … Bronny has earned this via arduous work.”
Bronny’s dad and mom, LeBron and Savannah James, stood off to the facet on the Lakers’ facility as their eldest son reported to his first day on the job within the household enterprise.
“For positive, amplified quantity of stress,” Bronny mentioned of the eye surrounding him becoming a member of the Lakers. “I’ve already seen it on social media and stuff, and the Web and stuff and speaking about that I won’t deserve a possibility. However I have been coping with stuff like this my entire life. So it is nothing totally different, but it surely’s extra amplified, for positive. However I will get via it.”
The 19-year-old rookie, who entered the draft after averaging 4.8 factors on 36.6% taking pictures (26.7% from 3), 2.8 rebounds and a couple of.1 assists in 19.3 minutes per recreation at USC after present process a coronary heart process final summer season, mentioned the practically five-month layoff because of the medical challenge affected his improvement.
“I really feel like I may’ve been perfecting my recreation extra,” Bronny mentioned. “I really feel like I have been given the chance to showcase what I can actually do as a result of I wasn’t on condition that a lot of a possibility at SC. I am excited for what’s to come back.”
Knecht signed his contract with L.A. on Tuesday — a standardized deal primarily based on his place within the first spherical. Bronny’s contract is predicted to be finalized earlier than the Lakers open up their summer season league slate within the California Basic towards the Sacramento Kings on Saturday. Each Bronny and Knecht are anticipated to play.
The Lakers and Bronny’s consultant, Wealthy Paul of Klutch Sports activities, have mentioned a multi-year contract that may guarantee him certainly one of L.A.’s 15 full-fledged roster spots, sources instructed ESPN.
LeBron can be at present not underneath contract with the workforce. Paul instructed ESPN his consumer could be keen to take a paycut under the three-year, $162 million most contract the 39-year-old veteran is eligible to signal to ensure that L.A. to signal an “influence participant.” Nonetheless, the Lakers’ try to accumulate Klay Thompson after James made that gesture failed, with Thompson becoming a member of the Dallas Mavericks on a three-year, $50 million deal, in accordance with ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Pelinka mentioned that the Lakers are persevering with to attempt to strengthen the roster and would come with the 2 future first-round picks they’ve which might be eligible to be traded ought to the best state of affairs current itself.
“I feel if the best deal comes and we now have to place in draft picks, we are going to,” Pelinka mentioned earlier than acknowledging how the primary and second apron construction of the brand new collective bargaining settlement has positioned limitations on groups. “We’re now within the apron world. We have seen contending groups or championship-level groups must lose gamers. That is a results of the apron world we’re dwelling in. So, does it make trades tougher? Sure. Does it make good trades not possible? No.”
Bronny, when requested if the opportunity of enjoying with the NBA’s all-time main scorer knowledgeable the timing of his determination to depart USC, mentioned a father-son pairing was not his motivation to declare.
“Rob has instructed me that there is a nice improvement system right here, so I simply wish to are available and get my work in and get higher every single day,” Bronny mentioned. “I by no means actually had a considered me going to play with my dad. However that is at all times there to participate of. However that wasn’t the principle focus of mine.”
Redick mentioned that he’s near hiring a director of participant improvement quickly to hitch his teaching workers.
“I feel simply usually the participant improvement program we’re making an attempt to construct is holistic,” Redick mentioned, itemizing off all the things from X’s and O’s to diet to conditioning to psychological fortitude that he hopes for this system to handle.
Whereas Redick continues to work on filling out his workers, he mentioned that Dane Johnson, the coach of L.A.’s G League affiliate, the South Bay Lakers, will coach the Lakers’ summer season league workforce in San Francisco and Las Vegas.
“I might be closely concerned in practices,” Redick mentioned. “I will even be concerned in some capability in the course of the video games, throughout movie, all of that. We speak about improvement, it is an unimaginable alternative for Dane and his workers to develop additional.”
Knecht, the 2024 SEC Participant of the Yr after averaging 21.7 factors on 45.8% taking pictures (39.7% from 3)., 4.9 rebounds and 1.8 assists in main the College of Tennessee to the Elite 8, mentioned he has already met with LeBron and Anthony Davis since being drafted final week and with Redick on Tuesday morning.
“One of many issues we talked about is simply being open minded,” Redick mentioned of his assembly with Knecht. “Having an openness and simply letting go of outcomes. And the factor that excites me about each these guys is that their foundation of basketball is as employees. And that is an excellent place to begin if you wish to turn into an excellent NBA participant.”
Knecht, who wore Davis’ No. 3 at Tennessee, will put on No. 4 for the Lakers — enjoying off the favored board recreation, Join 4. “Why not?” he mentioned.
Bronny will put on No. 9, honoring the late rap artist, Juice WRLD, who referenced the quantity in his music. Bronny additionally has “9 9 9” tattooed vertically behind his left ear.
“Juice has simply been an enormous a part of me holding calm in some conditions that I have been via,” Bronny mentioned. “So simply paying homage to him, particularly as a result of he handed, it is a actually essential factor for me.”
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — After Los Angeles Lakers rookie Bronny James thanked coach JJ Redick and vp of basketball operations and common supervisor Rob Pelinka for all the things they’ve “given” to him after drafting him No. 55 final week, Redick corrected his younger guard.
“Rob and I didn’t give Bronny something,” Redick mentioned throughout James’ introductory information convention Tuesday, together with the Lakers’ No. 17 choose, Dalton Knecht. “Bronny has earned this. … Bronny has earned this via arduous work.”
Bronny’s dad and mom, LeBron and Savannah James, stood off to the facet on the Lakers’ facility as their eldest son reported to his first day on the job within the household enterprise.
“For positive, amplified quantity of stress,” Bronny mentioned of the eye surrounding him becoming a member of the Lakers. “I’ve already seen it on social media and stuff, and the Web and stuff and speaking about that I won’t deserve a possibility. However I have been coping with stuff like this my entire life. So it is nothing totally different, but it surely’s extra amplified, for positive. However I will get via it.”
The 19-year-old rookie, who entered the draft after averaging 4.8 factors on 36.6% taking pictures (26.7% from 3), 2.8 rebounds and a couple of.1 assists in 19.3 minutes per recreation at USC after present process a coronary heart process final summer season, mentioned the practically five-month layoff because of the medical challenge affected his improvement.
“I really feel like I may’ve been perfecting my recreation extra,” Bronny mentioned. “I really feel like I have been given the chance to showcase what I can actually do as a result of I wasn’t on condition that a lot of a possibility at SC. I am excited for what’s to come back.”
Knecht signed his contract with L.A. on Tuesday — a standardized deal primarily based on his place within the first spherical. Bronny’s contract is predicted to be finalized earlier than the Lakers open up their summer season league slate within the California Basic towards the Sacramento Kings on Saturday. Each Bronny and Knecht are anticipated to play.
The Lakers and Bronny’s consultant, Wealthy Paul of Klutch Sports activities, have mentioned a multi-year contract that may guarantee him certainly one of L.A.’s 15 full-fledged roster spots, sources instructed ESPN.
LeBron can be at present not underneath contract with the workforce. Paul instructed ESPN his consumer could be keen to take a paycut under the three-year, $162 million most contract the 39-year-old veteran is eligible to signal to ensure that L.A. to signal an “influence participant.” Nonetheless, the Lakers’ try to accumulate Klay Thompson after James made that gesture failed, with Thompson becoming a member of the Dallas Mavericks on a three-year, $50 million deal, in accordance with ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Pelinka mentioned that the Lakers are persevering with to attempt to strengthen the roster and would come with the 2 future first-round picks they’ve which might be eligible to be traded ought to the best state of affairs current itself.
“I feel if the best deal comes and we now have to place in draft picks, we are going to,” Pelinka mentioned earlier than acknowledging how the primary and second apron construction of the brand new collective bargaining settlement has positioned limitations on groups. “We’re now within the apron world. We have seen contending groups or championship-level groups must lose gamers. That is a results of the apron world we’re dwelling in. So, does it make trades tougher? Sure. Does it make good trades not possible? No.”
Bronny, when requested if the opportunity of enjoying with the NBA’s all-time main scorer knowledgeable the timing of his determination to depart USC, mentioned a father-son pairing was not his motivation to declare.
“Rob has instructed me that there is a nice improvement system right here, so I simply wish to are available and get my work in and get higher every single day,” Bronny mentioned. “I by no means actually had a considered me going to play with my dad. However that is at all times there to participate of. However that wasn’t the principle focus of mine.”
Redick mentioned that he’s near hiring a director of participant improvement quickly to hitch his teaching workers.
“I feel simply usually the participant improvement program we’re making an attempt to construct is holistic,” Redick mentioned, itemizing off all the things from X’s and O’s to diet to conditioning to psychological fortitude that he hopes for this system to handle.
Whereas Redick continues to work on filling out his workers, he mentioned that Dane Johnson, the coach of L.A.’s G League affiliate, the South Bay Lakers, will coach the Lakers’ summer season league workforce in San Francisco and Las Vegas.
“I might be closely concerned in practices,” Redick mentioned. “I will even be concerned in some capability in the course of the video games, throughout movie, all of that. We speak about improvement, it is an unimaginable alternative for Dane and his workers to develop additional.”
Knecht, the 2024 SEC Participant of the Yr after averaging 21.7 factors on 45.8% taking pictures (39.7% from 3)., 4.9 rebounds and 1.8 assists in main the College of Tennessee to the Elite 8, mentioned he has already met with LeBron and Anthony Davis since being drafted final week and with Redick on Tuesday morning.
“One of many issues we talked about is simply being open minded,” Redick mentioned of his assembly with Knecht. “Having an openness and simply letting go of outcomes. And the factor that excites me about each these guys is that their foundation of basketball is as employees. And that is an excellent place to begin if you wish to turn into an excellent NBA participant.”
Knecht, who wore Davis’ No. 3 at Tennessee, will put on No. 4 for the Lakers — enjoying off the favored board recreation, Join 4. “Why not?” he mentioned.
Bronny will put on No. 9, honoring the late rap artist, Juice WRLD, who referenced the quantity in his music. Bronny additionally has “9 9 9” tattooed vertically behind his left ear.
“Juice has simply been an enormous a part of me holding calm in some conditions that I have been via,” Bronny mentioned. “So simply paying homage to him, particularly as a result of he handed, it is a actually essential factor for me.”
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — After Los Angeles Lakers rookie Bronny James thanked coach JJ Redick and vp of basketball operations and common supervisor Rob Pelinka for all the things they’ve “given” to him after drafting him No. 55 final week, Redick corrected his younger guard.
“Rob and I didn’t give Bronny something,” Redick mentioned throughout James’ introductory information convention Tuesday, together with the Lakers’ No. 17 choose, Dalton Knecht. “Bronny has earned this. … Bronny has earned this via arduous work.”
Bronny’s dad and mom, LeBron and Savannah James, stood off to the facet on the Lakers’ facility as their eldest son reported to his first day on the job within the household enterprise.
“For positive, amplified quantity of stress,” Bronny mentioned of the eye surrounding him becoming a member of the Lakers. “I’ve already seen it on social media and stuff, and the Web and stuff and speaking about that I won’t deserve a possibility. However I have been coping with stuff like this my entire life. So it is nothing totally different, but it surely’s extra amplified, for positive. However I will get via it.”
The 19-year-old rookie, who entered the draft after averaging 4.8 factors on 36.6% taking pictures (26.7% from 3), 2.8 rebounds and a couple of.1 assists in 19.3 minutes per recreation at USC after present process a coronary heart process final summer season, mentioned the practically five-month layoff because of the medical challenge affected his improvement.
“I really feel like I may’ve been perfecting my recreation extra,” Bronny mentioned. “I really feel like I have been given the chance to showcase what I can actually do as a result of I wasn’t on condition that a lot of a possibility at SC. I am excited for what’s to come back.”
Knecht signed his contract with L.A. on Tuesday — a standardized deal primarily based on his place within the first spherical. Bronny’s contract is predicted to be finalized earlier than the Lakers open up their summer season league slate within the California Basic towards the Sacramento Kings on Saturday. Each Bronny and Knecht are anticipated to play.
The Lakers and Bronny’s consultant, Wealthy Paul of Klutch Sports activities, have mentioned a multi-year contract that may guarantee him certainly one of L.A.’s 15 full-fledged roster spots, sources instructed ESPN.
LeBron can be at present not underneath contract with the workforce. Paul instructed ESPN his consumer could be keen to take a paycut under the three-year, $162 million most contract the 39-year-old veteran is eligible to signal to ensure that L.A. to signal an “influence participant.” Nonetheless, the Lakers’ try to accumulate Klay Thompson after James made that gesture failed, with Thompson becoming a member of the Dallas Mavericks on a three-year, $50 million deal, in accordance with ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Pelinka mentioned that the Lakers are persevering with to attempt to strengthen the roster and would come with the 2 future first-round picks they’ve which might be eligible to be traded ought to the best state of affairs current itself.
“I feel if the best deal comes and we now have to place in draft picks, we are going to,” Pelinka mentioned earlier than acknowledging how the primary and second apron construction of the brand new collective bargaining settlement has positioned limitations on groups. “We’re now within the apron world. We have seen contending groups or championship-level groups must lose gamers. That is a results of the apron world we’re dwelling in. So, does it make trades tougher? Sure. Does it make good trades not possible? No.”
Bronny, when requested if the opportunity of enjoying with the NBA’s all-time main scorer knowledgeable the timing of his determination to depart USC, mentioned a father-son pairing was not his motivation to declare.
“Rob has instructed me that there is a nice improvement system right here, so I simply wish to are available and get my work in and get higher every single day,” Bronny mentioned. “I by no means actually had a considered me going to play with my dad. However that is at all times there to participate of. However that wasn’t the principle focus of mine.”
Redick mentioned that he’s near hiring a director of participant improvement quickly to hitch his teaching workers.
“I feel simply usually the participant improvement program we’re making an attempt to construct is holistic,” Redick mentioned, itemizing off all the things from X’s and O’s to diet to conditioning to psychological fortitude that he hopes for this system to handle.
Whereas Redick continues to work on filling out his workers, he mentioned that Dane Johnson, the coach of L.A.’s G League affiliate, the South Bay Lakers, will coach the Lakers’ summer season league workforce in San Francisco and Las Vegas.
“I might be closely concerned in practices,” Redick mentioned. “I will even be concerned in some capability in the course of the video games, throughout movie, all of that. We speak about improvement, it is an unimaginable alternative for Dane and his workers to develop additional.”
Knecht, the 2024 SEC Participant of the Yr after averaging 21.7 factors on 45.8% taking pictures (39.7% from 3)., 4.9 rebounds and 1.8 assists in main the College of Tennessee to the Elite 8, mentioned he has already met with LeBron and Anthony Davis since being drafted final week and with Redick on Tuesday morning.
“One of many issues we talked about is simply being open minded,” Redick mentioned of his assembly with Knecht. “Having an openness and simply letting go of outcomes. And the factor that excites me about each these guys is that their foundation of basketball is as employees. And that is an excellent place to begin if you wish to turn into an excellent NBA participant.”
Knecht, who wore Davis’ No. 3 at Tennessee, will put on No. 4 for the Lakers — enjoying off the favored board recreation, Join 4. “Why not?” he mentioned.
Bronny will put on No. 9, honoring the late rap artist, Juice WRLD, who referenced the quantity in his music. Bronny additionally has “9 9 9” tattooed vertically behind his left ear.
“Juice has simply been an enormous a part of me holding calm in some conditions that I have been via,” Bronny mentioned. “So simply paying homage to him, particularly as a result of he handed, it is a actually essential factor for me.”
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — After Los Angeles Lakers rookie Bronny James thanked coach JJ Redick and vp of basketball operations and common supervisor Rob Pelinka for all the things they’ve “given” to him after drafting him No. 55 final week, Redick corrected his younger guard.
“Rob and I didn’t give Bronny something,” Redick mentioned throughout James’ introductory information convention Tuesday, together with the Lakers’ No. 17 choose, Dalton Knecht. “Bronny has earned this. … Bronny has earned this via arduous work.”
Bronny’s dad and mom, LeBron and Savannah James, stood off to the facet on the Lakers’ facility as their eldest son reported to his first day on the job within the household enterprise.
“For positive, amplified quantity of stress,” Bronny mentioned of the eye surrounding him becoming a member of the Lakers. “I’ve already seen it on social media and stuff, and the Web and stuff and speaking about that I won’t deserve a possibility. However I have been coping with stuff like this my entire life. So it is nothing totally different, but it surely’s extra amplified, for positive. However I will get via it.”
The 19-year-old rookie, who entered the draft after averaging 4.8 factors on 36.6% taking pictures (26.7% from 3), 2.8 rebounds and a couple of.1 assists in 19.3 minutes per recreation at USC after present process a coronary heart process final summer season, mentioned the practically five-month layoff because of the medical challenge affected his improvement.
“I really feel like I may’ve been perfecting my recreation extra,” Bronny mentioned. “I really feel like I have been given the chance to showcase what I can actually do as a result of I wasn’t on condition that a lot of a possibility at SC. I am excited for what’s to come back.”
Knecht signed his contract with L.A. on Tuesday — a standardized deal primarily based on his place within the first spherical. Bronny’s contract is predicted to be finalized earlier than the Lakers open up their summer season league slate within the California Basic towards the Sacramento Kings on Saturday. Each Bronny and Knecht are anticipated to play.
The Lakers and Bronny’s consultant, Wealthy Paul of Klutch Sports activities, have mentioned a multi-year contract that may guarantee him certainly one of L.A.’s 15 full-fledged roster spots, sources instructed ESPN.
LeBron can be at present not underneath contract with the workforce. Paul instructed ESPN his consumer could be keen to take a paycut under the three-year, $162 million most contract the 39-year-old veteran is eligible to signal to ensure that L.A. to signal an “influence participant.” Nonetheless, the Lakers’ try to accumulate Klay Thompson after James made that gesture failed, with Thompson becoming a member of the Dallas Mavericks on a three-year, $50 million deal, in accordance with ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Pelinka mentioned that the Lakers are persevering with to attempt to strengthen the roster and would come with the 2 future first-round picks they’ve which might be eligible to be traded ought to the best state of affairs current itself.
“I feel if the best deal comes and we now have to place in draft picks, we are going to,” Pelinka mentioned earlier than acknowledging how the primary and second apron construction of the brand new collective bargaining settlement has positioned limitations on groups. “We’re now within the apron world. We have seen contending groups or championship-level groups must lose gamers. That is a results of the apron world we’re dwelling in. So, does it make trades tougher? Sure. Does it make good trades not possible? No.”
Bronny, when requested if the opportunity of enjoying with the NBA’s all-time main scorer knowledgeable the timing of his determination to depart USC, mentioned a father-son pairing was not his motivation to declare.
“Rob has instructed me that there is a nice improvement system right here, so I simply wish to are available and get my work in and get higher every single day,” Bronny mentioned. “I by no means actually had a considered me going to play with my dad. However that is at all times there to participate of. However that wasn’t the principle focus of mine.”
Redick mentioned that he’s near hiring a director of participant improvement quickly to hitch his teaching workers.
“I feel simply usually the participant improvement program we’re making an attempt to construct is holistic,” Redick mentioned, itemizing off all the things from X’s and O’s to diet to conditioning to psychological fortitude that he hopes for this system to handle.
Whereas Redick continues to work on filling out his workers, he mentioned that Dane Johnson, the coach of L.A.’s G League affiliate, the South Bay Lakers, will coach the Lakers’ summer season league workforce in San Francisco and Las Vegas.
“I might be closely concerned in practices,” Redick mentioned. “I will even be concerned in some capability in the course of the video games, throughout movie, all of that. We speak about improvement, it is an unimaginable alternative for Dane and his workers to develop additional.”
Knecht, the 2024 SEC Participant of the Yr after averaging 21.7 factors on 45.8% taking pictures (39.7% from 3)., 4.9 rebounds and 1.8 assists in main the College of Tennessee to the Elite 8, mentioned he has already met with LeBron and Anthony Davis since being drafted final week and with Redick on Tuesday morning.
“One of many issues we talked about is simply being open minded,” Redick mentioned of his assembly with Knecht. “Having an openness and simply letting go of outcomes. And the factor that excites me about each these guys is that their foundation of basketball is as employees. And that is an excellent place to begin if you wish to turn into an excellent NBA participant.”
Knecht, who wore Davis’ No. 3 at Tennessee, will put on No. 4 for the Lakers — enjoying off the favored board recreation, Join 4. “Why not?” he mentioned.
Bronny will put on No. 9, honoring the late rap artist, Juice WRLD, who referenced the quantity in his music. Bronny additionally has “9 9 9” tattooed vertically behind his left ear.
“Juice has simply been an enormous a part of me holding calm in some conditions that I have been via,” Bronny mentioned. “So simply paying homage to him, particularly as a result of he handed, it is a actually essential factor for me.”
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — After Los Angeles Lakers rookie Bronny James thanked coach JJ Redick and vp of basketball operations and common supervisor Rob Pelinka for all the things they’ve “given” to him after drafting him No. 55 final week, Redick corrected his younger guard.
“Rob and I didn’t give Bronny something,” Redick mentioned throughout James’ introductory information convention Tuesday, together with the Lakers’ No. 17 choose, Dalton Knecht. “Bronny has earned this. … Bronny has earned this via arduous work.”
Bronny’s dad and mom, LeBron and Savannah James, stood off to the facet on the Lakers’ facility as their eldest son reported to his first day on the job within the household enterprise.
“For positive, amplified quantity of stress,” Bronny mentioned of the eye surrounding him becoming a member of the Lakers. “I’ve already seen it on social media and stuff, and the Web and stuff and speaking about that I won’t deserve a possibility. However I have been coping with stuff like this my entire life. So it is nothing totally different, but it surely’s extra amplified, for positive. However I will get via it.”
The 19-year-old rookie, who entered the draft after averaging 4.8 factors on 36.6% taking pictures (26.7% from 3), 2.8 rebounds and a couple of.1 assists in 19.3 minutes per recreation at USC after present process a coronary heart process final summer season, mentioned the practically five-month layoff because of the medical challenge affected his improvement.
“I really feel like I may’ve been perfecting my recreation extra,” Bronny mentioned. “I really feel like I have been given the chance to showcase what I can actually do as a result of I wasn’t on condition that a lot of a possibility at SC. I am excited for what’s to come back.”
Knecht signed his contract with L.A. on Tuesday — a standardized deal primarily based on his place within the first spherical. Bronny’s contract is predicted to be finalized earlier than the Lakers open up their summer season league slate within the California Basic towards the Sacramento Kings on Saturday. Each Bronny and Knecht are anticipated to play.
The Lakers and Bronny’s consultant, Wealthy Paul of Klutch Sports activities, have mentioned a multi-year contract that may guarantee him certainly one of L.A.’s 15 full-fledged roster spots, sources instructed ESPN.
LeBron can be at present not underneath contract with the workforce. Paul instructed ESPN his consumer could be keen to take a paycut under the three-year, $162 million most contract the 39-year-old veteran is eligible to signal to ensure that L.A. to signal an “influence participant.” Nonetheless, the Lakers’ try to accumulate Klay Thompson after James made that gesture failed, with Thompson becoming a member of the Dallas Mavericks on a three-year, $50 million deal, in accordance with ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Pelinka mentioned that the Lakers are persevering with to attempt to strengthen the roster and would come with the 2 future first-round picks they’ve which might be eligible to be traded ought to the best state of affairs current itself.
“I feel if the best deal comes and we now have to place in draft picks, we are going to,” Pelinka mentioned earlier than acknowledging how the primary and second apron construction of the brand new collective bargaining settlement has positioned limitations on groups. “We’re now within the apron world. We have seen contending groups or championship-level groups must lose gamers. That is a results of the apron world we’re dwelling in. So, does it make trades tougher? Sure. Does it make good trades not possible? No.”
Bronny, when requested if the opportunity of enjoying with the NBA’s all-time main scorer knowledgeable the timing of his determination to depart USC, mentioned a father-son pairing was not his motivation to declare.
“Rob has instructed me that there is a nice improvement system right here, so I simply wish to are available and get my work in and get higher every single day,” Bronny mentioned. “I by no means actually had a considered me going to play with my dad. However that is at all times there to participate of. However that wasn’t the principle focus of mine.”
Redick mentioned that he’s near hiring a director of participant improvement quickly to hitch his teaching workers.
“I feel simply usually the participant improvement program we’re making an attempt to construct is holistic,” Redick mentioned, itemizing off all the things from X’s and O’s to diet to conditioning to psychological fortitude that he hopes for this system to handle.
Whereas Redick continues to work on filling out his workers, he mentioned that Dane Johnson, the coach of L.A.’s G League affiliate, the South Bay Lakers, will coach the Lakers’ summer season league workforce in San Francisco and Las Vegas.
“I might be closely concerned in practices,” Redick mentioned. “I will even be concerned in some capability in the course of the video games, throughout movie, all of that. We speak about improvement, it is an unimaginable alternative for Dane and his workers to develop additional.”
Knecht, the 2024 SEC Participant of the Yr after averaging 21.7 factors on 45.8% taking pictures (39.7% from 3)., 4.9 rebounds and 1.8 assists in main the College of Tennessee to the Elite 8, mentioned he has already met with LeBron and Anthony Davis since being drafted final week and with Redick on Tuesday morning.
“One of many issues we talked about is simply being open minded,” Redick mentioned of his assembly with Knecht. “Having an openness and simply letting go of outcomes. And the factor that excites me about each these guys is that their foundation of basketball is as employees. And that is an excellent place to begin if you wish to turn into an excellent NBA participant.”
Knecht, who wore Davis’ No. 3 at Tennessee, will put on No. 4 for the Lakers — enjoying off the favored board recreation, Join 4. “Why not?” he mentioned.
Bronny will put on No. 9, honoring the late rap artist, Juice WRLD, who referenced the quantity in his music. Bronny additionally has “9 9 9” tattooed vertically behind his left ear.
“Juice has simply been an enormous a part of me holding calm in some conditions that I have been via,” Bronny mentioned. “So simply paying homage to him, particularly as a result of he handed, it is a actually essential factor for me.”