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Lebron's Kid Kinda Sucks at Basketball...

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0:00 [Music] LeBron james' son LeBron James what team who's who's going to draft him well did they say the Lakers want to draft him there's there's discussions nobody knows for sure but I hear from other guys who are better at basketball than I'll ever be they say that LeBron James is actually may not be NBA level that is exactly what this article is about the son LeBron james' son bronnie is not getting love from scouts according to the most recent information and there's a a quote from an anonymous source that says he is not an NBA Prospect man it's going to be hard yeah that's that's rough like when you have a legend as a father like how do you pass or even live up in the same exact field like I don't

0:52 know any examples kid never been n right did they I don't know I think so think so well cuz like Tiger Woods he's been a child Pro proy like he's been in the Limelight since raised for yeah wasn't he on the Letterman show or like one of those shows like where not Letterman yeah but um he was on a like nighttime show where he was like a kid doing like killer ass golf moves so how was his kid by by the time he's like six if he's not doing that he's not on the same level yeah so I'm like in this case are there players where their kids become even greater than that well you look at Steph Curry's dad y was the NBA yep uh Patrick mahomes's dad was a baseball player really and Patrick Mahomes is obviously Way Gone way past

1:43 his dad Kobe's dad was in the NBA too I think right I don't know I think he was his name was like uh I think that's just hard though you trying to compete I think it's random honestly it's just like you really got to be gifted yeah he was an NBA player well you think about like I would imagine dude if LeBron James is your ████ dad you probably had a really dope childhood right like you're what if he was never home cuz he was at games in you all day and ████ on a on an iMac screen yeah yeah what if Michael Jordan he's like this is all I got and I have to give it my all the kids like damn I really want to play Call of Duty when I get I feel like I want to go home and stream instead beat my me play Call of Duty it's like that remember that key and peel sketch about Will Smith son yeah I just saw the other day so funny it's so

2:33 funny he's basically just like um he's talking to his agent about a movie and um the agent's basically like like saying like oh yeah you'll live in a house he's like house what's he's like it's like a mansion but smaller like that he's like and you're going to have a job you're going to work at a office he's like what's that he's like oh it's like you know when you're on a movie right and they pay you oh but you have to go do other things and they pay you so disconnect he's like okay I'm hearing you so Fu but then you know how like sometimes um like like if a if if your dad owned a dut shop and he was like a killer Baker right and then like it's not uncommon where the son would like learn early on how to bake really dope and then he'll take on the family business so how different is that from like entertainment where like I don't know Angelina Jolie comes from acting family or like whatever yeah and then

3:25 like they at an early age they get access to the teaching the skills the netw work all that stuff and then they kind of take on the family business yeah it might be the parenting cuz it's like if your parenting style is to like freaking train your child as like Asian parenting where they're like you have to do this you discipline boom boom boom boom and maybe it might lead to certain results or if you're a kind of chill parent where they're like yeah just do whatever you want I'm going to support you no matter what type of parent then they end up just slacking you know like what so you got to be like Michael Jackson's dad depends on how much have in it too as a kid maybe your interest isn't fully developed in that you have something else that you want to do Michael ja's dad is like hey you better sing or I'll beat you with my shoes yeah so are you saying it's okay for him to not be as great as his dad is it okay with me absolutely

4:16 not well there's no like yo what if what if the parents deserted them saying like uh you know there's they not in their life anymore well dude think about LeBron james' job dude he ████ plays what 82 games a season on top of the playoffs which he's always in almost 40 crushed it in the playoffs by the way kept them in it the whole time insane and so he's playing a he's playing at the highest level of the game that just like requires his probably full attention and he's probably you know out on the road most of the time so it's like how much time you have to train your kid visual effect are you actually getting in bronny james' freshman season at USC he averaged fewer than five points a game dude imagine being USC imagine being him knowing what your dad's doing and your dad's like not around all them cuz he's busy playing basketball he's just like man I hate basketball and then

5:06 he's like that's how he's playing you know I hate basketball and he makes a shot and he goes damn my genetics are great I'm too good at this game def settings are you ready for my sports broadcaster hot take Michael Jordan the greatest player of all time in my opinion yeah same I agree dog ████ owner dog ████ owner owns the Charlotte own the Bobcats ran them into the ground ran them into the ████ ground right or the Hornets the Bobcats what Bobcats changed it so he's not a good coach not a good owner owner now his son his kids none of them made NBA not a good father oh dude not but honestly though like if you're if you're a competitor at the highest level cuz people say Michael Jordan is one of the greatest competitors of all time across any sport just because it's intensity

5:56 that he brought to the game every single time he played even if it wasn't a leg game he would be dropping ████ triple double every night whatever it's like a lot of those guys if you were to put him in a coaching role it would you would think like oh yeah he could probably coach cuz the game it doesn't it doesn't make you necessarily a great teacher great coach that's that's an entirely different skill he's too much of a go-getter you know what I mean like one okay if you think about how a unit works one is one person a player is a component a coach is a brain so like it's like one guy's creating the battle strategy and inspiring the team to execute the strategy one person is the star player in the Seal team that's getting all the murders yeah he's getting all the kills yeah he's getting all the kills and then all the support's

6:47 not really they're overshadowed but it's hard for the human brain to look at it as like there's 100 people behind this person well there's only one guy talking to you know Good Morning America about killing B Lon for example same ████ yeah but it's it's like some people are really good components of a team and then some people are just the best at Mastermind and you need those people though too not everybody has to be the the full package m one Scout said that if the Lakers don't draft bronny James I don't see anyone drafting him teams will want him in a two-way contract and I don't think their agency the agency that he's part of will want that Dam yeah cuz I was well was he not good another well another comment real quick hold that thought Five Points in college another comment from a scout positional athlete doesn't function as

7:38 an leite athlete tweener stuck between two positions should be a point guard based on his size but he can't run an offense he's handicapped as an Underside shooting guard because he can't shoot so skills they're saying his he doesn't have the skills to play any real position mhm maybe he should change his profession dude imagine how his dad feels he's probably not high level enough to to even be point guard because think you have to you have to be floor General you got to say Hey you go here you got to know all the plays if I was a competitive athlete I probably don't want my kids to beat me I don't want to be on the team with my dad no like but also too he gets the rub just because he's LeBron's son so everyone is just eyes on him no matter what if you're the coach of that team too and you got LeBron James's kid in Lebron you're not the coach of that not he's that's the whole joke right is that LeBron James ████ runs would you want your kid to

8:28 break your record though yeah think proud of your you want to be you want them to surpass you but but I'm also not a number one goat athlete so like but but we're real parents yo I'm such a competitor I'm not having a ████ kid so I can make sure they don't get right you never wanton your kids to surpass you I dominated him by not having I think the best you're never going to follow in like a Legend's footstep or it's so hard right yeah do something else yeah pivot like ████ Steve ioki his father was a great Entertainer restaurant tour but then Steve went off and carved his own thing out as a DJ yeah yeah he's also a business guy too big time yeah so they are kind of sim similar like they both are great brand builders you know

9:20 definitely but it's like he carved his own play out you know yeah but LeBron says he wants to play on the same team with his son right so that's the big oh I guess he doesn't care about beating his his kid being a score or maybe he wants him in his team so he could always slam dunk on him and be like see you'll never be as great as your dad that's not cuz he wants to hang out with him damn dude not me you might just get sign for like a oneyear contract I teach my kid how to fight just so I could kick his ass and I'll teach him just so I he could lose from me dang damn that's pretty brutal man that's pretty brutal you got to always be BX number oneach you got to always leave a few things that you don't teach them so you could ████ them up through those holes or they got to figure it out themselves see that's a nice way of putting it I don't care I would want my kid to be better than me with everything in there no that's the truth you would I

10:11 would I would Joe you would too I wouldn't care well not too early if they crush it at 10 years old I'd be like what the ████ dude okay that's the problem yeah I would want to be known as their teacher so I could take all the credit yeah that's a good role I'll take it's an extension of you how could you not take don't teach them ████ but they Excel anyway and you still take the credit for it that's best like oh yeah that's my kid that sounds like the best way pretty sick actually never thought of it that way [Music]

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