It’s safe to say the entire NBA world is awaiting a big NBA game from Bronny James this pre-season, and it happened on Friday night in the Warriors vs. Lakers game – albeit in a huge blowout.
On Friday night, in his first NBA preseason start, Bronny James tallied 17 points, 4 rebounds, 3 steals, 1 assist, and 1 block while shooting 41% from the field. It easily was the best NBA performance of his young career thus far, and the NBA world was talking about it. There were over 87,000 likes, 1,000 comments, and three million views of his highlights from the game in under seven hours.
Bronny’s game was just full of steals and dunks, and just a million moves. It was all in a gigantic blowout, but it did give him the chance to actually showcase his ability.
Coming into tonight’s action against the Warriors, Bronny was vastly struggling in the preseason. Prior to tonight, Bronny had averaged 1.6 points across five games on 20% shooting from the field and 0% shooting from three with more turnovers than made field goals.
Fortunately for the young 20-year-old, his singular performance against the Warriors was better than all five of his other preseason performances combined. Even though it didn’t result in a win, Bronny’s confidence should be much higher entering the regular season. The sheer irony of it all is that his performance came against the team that passed up on drafting him: the Golden State Warriors.
Becoming an NBA competent player does not happen overnight; it’s the building blocks that come one day at a time. The next progression in development for Bronny James will be to repeat this type of performance, only in a much closer game.
The Golden State Warriors and the Los Angeles Lakers meet for the first time in the regular season on December 25.
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