Latest News according to NBA Score Stats, Rookie head coach JJ Redick hasn’t yet made any decision regarding handling the league’s first father-son pairing.
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP)– LeBron James and his son, Bronny, are already scrimmaging with the rest of the Los Angeles Lakers during voluntary off-season workouts. JJ Redick and his coaching staff are considering a moment early in the new season when a father and son will share an NBA court for the first time.
While specifics of that historic day haven’t been set yet, Redick shares with the basketball world the eagerness of watching the best scorer in the NBA’s history play besides the Lakers’ new second-round draft pick. No father-son tandem has ever played together in the NBA, not to mention on the same team.
We don’t have anything set in stone, per se, in terms of a commitment to do it this way,” Redick said “. We obviously have discussed it as staff and gotten into a bit of specifics about what that might look like, but we haven’t really committed to anything, and clearly, there are things to discuss when we’re all together with Bronny and LeBron too. They should be a part of that discussion as well.
Redick and general manager Rob Pelinka expressed enthusiasm about the team-up Wednesday during a preseason news conference. Redick sees only the positive aspects of pairing the duo on the court and doesn’t foresee any friction or concerns in the family dynamic.
“I don’t view it any differently than any other challenge of coaching a player, or coaching a relationship,” Redick said.
Then Pelinka humorously interjected an anecdote from a recent workout scrimmage: “Maybe the challenge is on Bronny, when like in our pickup game, he got switched on to LeBron, and LeBron took him baseline, up and under of the glass. The words exchanged afterward were more challenging than anything else.
The Lakers have yet to reveal or determine the duration that Bronny, who turns 20 during training camp, would spend on the NBA roster with his famous dad who turns 40 in December.
Bronny, I feel very fortunate that I get to coach him because he’s young and he’s hungry and he’s got a lot of inherent skill sets that we can mold into a really good NBA player,” Redick said. “On top of that, he’s just fantastic as a kid. He’s extremely coachable.He has the right spirit and energy every day.
According to Redick, LeBron James took a break after guiding the U.S. team to win a gold medal at the Paris Olympics but has been back in the gym for the past two weeks.
Not bold moves have been made by the front office over the summer, constrained due to their top players’ contracts and new league systems that have made it much tougher to upgrade rosters, according to Pelinka.
So the Lakers roster around the James family will look much like the unit that got to the Western Conference Finals in 2023, but then ended last season eighth in the West and was swept by Denver in the first round. Those Lakers weren’t an elite team even when they were as healthy as they could be for LeBron and Anthony Davis, two high-mileage veterans who have battled big injury issues in the past.
He’ll move his two tradable first-rounders, he said, if he sees a deal that would lead to “sustainable Laker’s excellence”. He’d move one pick for a “marginal upgrade if we felt like it was the right thing to do.”.
Rui Hachimura, Gabe Vincent, and Jalen Hood-Schifino are healthy for training camp, but not everyone will be ready for workouts next week. Christian Wood will be reassessed in six weeks after undergoing left knee surgery earlier this month.
Pelinka also said Jarred Vanderbilt, the defense-minded wingman who played in only 29 games last season because of a foot injury, underwent successful “procedures” on both of his feet early this offseason. The swingman is still rehabbing, but Pelinka expressed hope that Vanderbilt will be ready by opening night on Oct. 22.
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