LeBron “Bronny” James Jr. has been an NBA prospect that team’s have had their eyes on since he was a pre-teen. But now that he’s on the verge of becoming NBA-eligible, Michelle Beadle had a blunt assessment of his viability as a player.
Speaking to The Spun this week, Beadle was asked if LeBron James Sr. would play long enough to be teammates with his son. While Beadle believes that’s certainly a possibility, she asserted that Bronny simply isn’t as good as his father right now and is worried that he’ll struggle to step out of his father’s shadow.
“(Bronny) is nowhere near as good as his dad. But someone will draft him because he is LeBron’s son. That’s a big shadow to fill and I sometimes wonder about the kids of greats. ‘Why? Why do the same field that your dad dominated?’ Go be an engineer! Go into a different field, because you’ll never live up to that. Ever,” Beadle said.
Bronny James certainly isn’t the kind of once-ever prospect that his father was coming out of high school. Most recruiting analysts have him as a rock solid four-star prospect, but one who lacks the size and strength that his father had at his age.
But Michelle Beadle might be onto something when she suggests that Bronny James will still wind up being drafted because of who his father is.
Between Bronny’s potential to be anything like his father to the support that drafting him would certainly bring the team from LeBron Sr., there’s a lot of reasons to draft him outside of purely what he can do on the court right now.
Do you agree with Beadle’s assessment of Bronny James?
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