{"id":288092,"date":"2025-11-16T10:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/288092\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T10:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:38:10","slug":"how-did-bronny-james-do-in-2nd-lakers-start-breaking-down-his-stat-line-and-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/288092\/","title":{"rendered":"How Did Bronny James Do in 2nd Lakers Start? Breaking Down His Stat Line and Reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Earning his second career start, Bronny James and the Los Angeles Lakers defeated Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks 119-95 on the road on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Bronny logged just four minutes in the first half with zeros across the stat sheet. The second half offered little more for the 21-year-old, who played six additional minutes for a total of 10 and finished 0-of-2, missing both of his shots from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The second-year player did not see any playing time in the second half after the 8:59 mark until just under three minutes left in &#8220;garbage time&#8221; as the Lakers pulled the rest of their starters, where he recorded one assist, one rebound and one steal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Bronny appeared hesitant to shoot throughout his time on the floor, making him an easy assignment for the Bucks defense and limiting his impact as an offensive threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">His first start came in the Lakers&#8217; regular-season finale last year, when he made a historic appearance alongside his father LeBron James against Portland, logging four points, six assists and four steals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">After his second appearance in the starting lineup, fans reacted to Bronny&#8217;s performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Rui Hachimura and Marcus Smart were ruled out ahead of Saturday&#8217;s road game, while LeBron James remained sidelined with sciatica and has yet to make his season debut. He has been <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ESPNNBA\/status\/1989432770901237981\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">practicing<\/a> with the South Bay Lakers this past week, ramping up his recovery with full-contact five-on-five work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Stepping up, Luka Doncic led the way with 41 points, nine rebounds, six assists and two blocks to help the Lakers improve to 10-4 on the season. Austin Reaves added 25 points and Deandre Ayton finished with 20 points and 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Lakers held a dominant 31-point lead over the Bucks at halftime as Milwaukee&#8217;s starters struggled to generate any offense. Giannis Antetokounmpo led the way with 14 points, while the rest of the starting unit combined for just nine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Despite earning the start Saturday, Bronny played only four minutes in the first half, going 0-of-1 from the field on a lone three-point attempt. Doncic paced the Lakers with 21 points on 50 percent shooting from beyond the arc and Ayton added 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Los Angeles maintained control throughout the second half to secure the win by 24 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Lakers will face back-to-back games against the Utah Jazz on Tuesday and Sunday, first hosting them before traveling to Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earning his second career start, Bronny James and the Los Angeles Lakers defeated Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-288092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}